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  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

organizations. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2426674 Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—Firms play a central role in the selection,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

associated with entering the political process help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

government technology. For these CEOs, hiring skilled workers, global trade, and H1B visas were also high on their agendas. Technology executives such as Apple’s Tim Cook and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff have voiced their concerns about the impact Trump’s View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 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
  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 18, 2016

are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51739 October 3, 2016 Harvard Business Review Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy escape from public awareness.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • October 2014
  • Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
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  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

research and development. We need a better educated and trained workforce. We need talented immigrants to work their magic in the economy. We need to use existing government and private dollars to fix infrastructure and create... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

while maintaining safety for millions of annual tourists. By 2010, Dubai had the world's tallest building, the most expensive hotel, and the largest shopping mall. But rapid development did not come without difficulties. While hundreds of thousands View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Lincoln Publication:Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming) Abstract 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream. Traditionally, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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