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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Innovation-Economics-Creative-Organizations/dp/1422143635/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351005820&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Architecture+of+Innovation The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
deeds well as compared to performing bad deeds poorly. Moreover, the results illuminate how the characteristics of an unethical behavior can interact to influence the emulation and diffusion of that behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51197 Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
extended turbulence. This working paper suggests that this context drove different business responses than in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Working Paper
Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception
By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Mara Vidali
Under what conditions do citizens and elites support the creation of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their area, and what types of facilities do they prefer? What types of concerns underlay these preferences and how do they differ by ideology and elite... View Details
Fabbe, Kristin, Eleni Kyrkopoulou, and Mara Vidali. "Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-026, November 2022.
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic inequality and instability is causing the wealthiest Chinese to invest outside the country and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the form of a stock buyback.) The US government and other borrowers are beneficiaries of this phenomenon, at least for the moment. My favorite barber, an immigrant from Greece with a love for his adopted country that more than matches his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 2022
- Working Paper
Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli and James M. Sappenfield
Leveraging a unique dataset merging patent data with all work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Technology; Policy Evaluation; Patents; Information Technology; Immigration; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Globalization
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli, and James M. Sappenfield. "Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-047, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 2017
- Article
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234.
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Harris on immigration The findings reflect the constantly changing state of politics and voter behavior. In a separate piece of new research, Pons considers the array of voter participation barriers that have changed in recent years,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Fall 2016
- Article
Global Talent Flows
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Human Capital; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Competency and Skills; Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "Global Talent Flows." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 83–106.
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
the perspective. Sandeep offered that one of the key factors to be considered global demographics. “You have an aging population in the West, which when coupled with increased barriers on cross border immigration would result in... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
U.S. frontier. To address reverse-causality concerns, reduced-form specifications exploit exogenous changes in U.S. immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less developed economies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
of stopping immigration seemed to be leading inexorably into a Leave vote before the murder last week of the young Member of Parliament Jo Cox by a man who gave his name to the court as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.” Brexit is... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on the city, creating a unique blend that has set it... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
causing two serious problems for democratic societies: a move to the left and/or political instability in many developing countries and a rising tide of immigrants seeking to move from poor countries to rich. The Hidden Risk in Cutting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51383 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace