Migration - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

companies such as Sony and Matsushita) led to the migration of R&D in consumer electronics to Japan (and later to South Korea and Taiwan). As consumers demanded ever-smaller, lighter, and more powerful (and power hungry!) mobile... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55160 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract— How does the appearance of a new... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

technology development and entrepreneurship, leading to less initial migration to the United States and greater return migration. More mechanical explanations may also exist—for example, stronger relative growth of innovation in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

2015 and 2016 data for about 2,000 refugees between the ages of 18 and 64 at about 30 locations to see if they are employed after 90 days. In Switzerland, the research examines about 4,500 adult asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 who are assigned by the Swiss State... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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When Migrants and Locals Innovate Together, Communities Gain | Working Knowledge

as far away as Africa, the Middle East, and Japan. “We asked them to write down individually the ideas they wanted to develop, and then they received some training on how to write business plans,” explains Choudhury, who has been studying the costs and benefits of... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

work closer together on global challenges, from poverty and migration to climate change and energy security, from terrorism to geopolitical issues. This requires a new, bold common purpose that can take it to the next stage of its... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-007_e181fd00-4426-4db8-8f70-89b1b5054a8f.pdf January 2015 Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies International Migration and Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

developed for entrepreneurship. This is not going to happen over the next three years, but it is quite likely over the next thirty to fifty years. My current research is exploring how this reverse migration would impact the United States'... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

shareholders," says Quelch. "Meaning they'll be able to manipulate prices in order to control the speed with which tobacco users migrate to e-cigarette brands." That means that electronic cigarettes, which are now... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

especially for a company in New York or Silicon Valley. The second strategic benefit is hiring. Think about all the talent that is being left behind because they can’t migrate to the US due to the current immigration system. I have done... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Wilkerson is an award-winning journalist. Tatum, a former... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

prevent hunters from moving into the wildlife reserve. The fence, however, also prevented traditional east-west migration of animals across the region. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the farms within the Sabi Sand Game reserve converted... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

natural catastrophes. Some of it over the past few years, for obvious reasons, has been monetary inflation. Some of it has, in fact, been more severe weather. But some of it has been this migration. If you look just at the US, migration... View Details

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

causes of all this that you lay out in the book is what you refer to as the “great wealth migration.” Can you talk about the great wealth migration? Define it and tell us a little bit about its impact on the economy. RS: So the great wealth View Details

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

recombination. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52166 Firms and Within-Country Migration: Evidence from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—While prior literature on within-country View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Academic Director at Brown University for the IE Brown Executive MBA . Banu is currently Joint Editor in Chief of Gender, Work & Organization and the author of Transnational Migration and The New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids... View Details

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-081.pdf Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Authors:Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee Abstract Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

usage migrates from broadcasting to interactivity. The new marketplace rewards more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles than the old. See No Evil: Why We Fail to Notice Unethical Behavior Authors: Francesca... View Details