Immigrants - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Research - Managing the Future of Work

Entrepreneurship By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example,... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Development of the Western U.S. By: Marco Tabellini 15 Nov 2024 Hoover Institution Hoover Hosts Inaugural Conference on Economics of Immigration Re: Marco Tabellini 13 Nov 2024 Lexpert Association of Corporate Counsel’s New Report Reveals... View Details

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

immigration policy during a period of growing skills gaps. In a quest for efficiency, they rely on AI-powered hiring systems that inadvertently exclude skilled candidates due to minor shortcomings in their qualifications, are difficult to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

21 May 2024
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What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

limits how much debt Italy can hold. So, the [far right] solution of limiting access to public services by excluding immigrants becomes more appealing to many voters. That helps explain why weak public service provision can lead to higher... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

medications?" In citing the need for more doctors and nurses, David Stahl comments that "it could be a way to help open immigration in this country." Michael Robbins adds, "Healthcare has been a closed guild." David Othmer cited "the maze... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

12 Oct 1999
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It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

all white immigrants before the Revolution arrived under these terms. They flocked to America mainly from England, but also from Scotland, Ireland, and Germany. (Germans tended to come in family groups, the others as single adults.) A few... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

18 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra

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Lawyers-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

Winchester, MA Alex Civetta Mintz Boston, MA Jeff Goldman Goldman & Partners Immigration Law LLP Boston, MA Matthew Reardon Goodwin Boston, MA Load More Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline... View Details

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

use of the facsimile machine took off. The movement of goods across the world was facilitated by the development of larger ocean-going ships, or super-freighters, and the growth of containerization. The flow of migrants across borders remained constrained by View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

Portrait Project

Alan Xie

hours of rehearsal in front of a camcorder. We replayed those recordings until their magnetic tape frayed, our own immigrant genre of home video. What does Webster’s say about our Asian-American Dream? Lacking language fluency, my parents... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

1619 and 1628. Cumbo was one of the first African men to own land in the colonies. Kearns also discovered he is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Johannes Schmierer, who immigrated from central Europe to North America in 1755,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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1.4.5 Required Summer Work Experience & Internship Courses - MBA

Training is an employment option available to F-1 students in which employment is considered an integral part of the curriculum or academic program. According to immigration regulations, this employment may be an internship or any other... View Details

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Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

approved. Marty Blue Board Member/Consultant/Advisor Formerly Reebok, CarGurus Boston, MA Rob Gierkink General Catalyst Partners, Datalogix, Air Miles, Flashfood, Index Boston, MA Jeff Goldman Goldman & Partners Immigration Law LLP... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

the technology-specific knowledge is absorbed by local inventors. Keywords: Emerging Markets ; Immigration ; Patents ; Knowledge ; Technological Innovation Citation Read Now Related Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ernest Miguelez, and... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Keywords: Migration ; Mobility ; Entrepreneurship ; Immigration ; Demographics ; Groups and Teams Citation Read Now Related Marinoni, Astrid, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Bounded Solidarity: The Role of Migrants in Shaping Entrepreneurial... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

ones. Keywords: Crowdfunding ; Prejudice and Bias ; Race ; Immigration ; Public Opinion Citation Read Now Related Bai, John (Jianqui), William R. Kerr, Chi Wan, and Alptug Yorulmaz. "Everyone Steps Back? The Widespread Retraction of... View Details

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark that identifies what he calls... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and... View Details

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By: Andy Wu

How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

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How to Fit in at HBS - MBA

realistically so far out of reach that it remained an evasive dream. In fact, it was a dream my parents would have never imagined would become a reality. We immigrated from Colombia in the late 90s and lived the first decade of our... View Details

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