Amy Blitz

Dr. Blitz has over twenty years of research and business experience, with expertise in innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

Throughout her career, she has led major research initiatives for diverse organizations, including IBM, where she was the Global Lead for Strategy at the IBM Institute for Business Value and directed a series of studies on innovation; McKinsey & Co. where she helped launch a social networking site for management innovators; Harvard Business School, where she developed a series of studies on entrepreneurial strategy based on interviews with leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; Ernst & Young, where she co-authored a study on IPOs in the late 1990s that resulted in extensive new, ongoing consulting services; and a UN-affiliated NGO in the Philippines, where she helped launch a successful credit cooperative in a poor rural community.

Dr. Blitz has extensive consulting experience in areas related to strategy and thought leadership. Her work has been published as books and articles, and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, and other leading media outlets. Her forthcoming book, The Contested State, explores the issue of rising authoritarianism, focusing on transnational alliances and regime change in the Philippines from 1898 to the present.

Academic Degrees

• Selected by IBM for Exec Ed Program at HBS, 1-week intensive course on strategy., Harvard Business School
• 6-week mini-MBA program for incoming doctoral students, I had my PhD already but was joining HBS as a researcher and my boss (head of new Entrepreneurship Division) asked me to do this., Harvard Business School
• Ph D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA, Colby College

Academic Interests

• Macroeconomics; Innovation Strategy; Economic Development; Entrepreneurship

Awards & Honors

• 1998 — Screenwriting Competition, Rhode Island International Film Festival
• 1993 — Media Studies, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
• 1992 — Goldsmith Award, Harvard's Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy
• 1991 — MacArthur Fellowship, MIT Center for International Studies
• 1989 — Media Studies Competition, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Books

• Blitz, A. (2021). The Contested State: US Foreign Policy, Transnational Alliances and Regime Change in the Philippines, 1898-2016: The Contested State: US Foreign Policy, Transnational Alliances and Regime Change in the Philippines, 1898-2016. Page: about 300. Rowman & Littlefield's Lexington Books Imprint.
• Blitz, A. (2000). The Contested State: American Foreign Policy and Regime Change in the Philippines. Page: 256. Rowman & Littlefield.