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  • 26 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte

roles in Asia. I also serve as the office liaison for the investment banks that seek to hire HBS talent. I worked in U.S. immigration law for many years before joining HBS so I provide basic immigration... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 09 Jun 2020
  • News

Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession

  • Research Summary

Examples of current projects

By: William R. Kerr
  • Entrepreneurship, innovation and growth
  • Transformations for profitable growth
  • Corporate innovation and venturing
  • High-skilled immigration and the structure of US firms
  • Agglomeration forces and cluster... View Details
  • July 2010
  • Article

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention

By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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  • January 2010
  • Article

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent... View Details
Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Labor; Immigration; United States
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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
  • 09 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

Since emigrating from Syria at the age of five, I have personally experienced the uphill battle of obtaining health care coverage as a non-US citizen. My family, along with many other immigrant and low-income families, are often forced to... View Details
  • Career Coach

Phillip Andrews

industries globally. He also provides guidance on U.S. immigration and work authorization to help international students and alumni navigate the U.S. job search. As a coach, Phillip enjoys working with individuals on career visioning as... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics
  • Career Coach

Arun Munthala

As the CFO of Finance Club, Arun can help point students to resources and opportunities available at HBS for preparing for interviews with investment banks and new job opportunities. Arun can also provide insight as to what banking industry look for in applicants, and... View Details
  • Article

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details
Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe
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  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • News

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

is more about narrowing the option set by providing direction, seekers believe soliciting advice is more about widening the option set by gathering information. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54145 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • Video

Who Benefits From Global Talent?

  • 19 Jun 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Keywords: by Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Hillel Rapoport
  • 31 Oct 2015
  • News

Social networks, ethnicity and entrepreneurship

  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

insurance expenditure is approximately 1.9. Overall, our results suggest that UI has a beneficial effect on the economy by decreasing its sensitivity to shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51410 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • News

How Executives Should Really Respond to Trump’s Controversial Moves