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Eduardo Avalos

about your hometown? I grew up in Santa Ana, CA. It is an immigrant gateway city for many families including my own. The leadership in Santa Ana deeply represented the communities it served. From all levels of life, I was surrounded by... 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

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

episodes in the future. Similarly, India is a pioneer in the creation of so-called digital public goods, building on its universal biometric identity initiative, which no nation has been able to replicate. To me, as an immigrant in the... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

28 May 2020
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How to Fit in at HBS

We immigrated from Colombia in the late 90s and lived the first decade of our American lives as undocumented immigrants after various attempts to adjust our immigration status... View Details

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Exhibition General Merchants to Commodities Brokers The story of the Lehman brothers in America dates to 1844, when twenty-three-year-old Henry Lehman, born to Jewish parents in Rimpar, Germany, View Details

29 Mar 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

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Hiring International Students

to 12 months, allowing the employer to file the Green Card petition with the immigration service. Perm Recruitment Requirements To demonstrate that an employer has adequately tested the US labor market, the DOL requires that an employer... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators; its directors also had forged strong relationships with key members of Congress and government officials through advocacy for the U.S. Special View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Art History, World Humanities, Debate, and Immigrants in American History MI 5 of 17 Shannon Headley Brighton High School (MI) Brighton, MI MI 6 of 17 Caleb Lagerwey Holland Christian High School Holland, MI MI 7 of 17 Laura Lutz Chelsea... View Details

25 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)

my family immigrated from Mexico, and our experience of learning to navigate a new country as immigrants has significantly shaped my identity and ambitions. I am deeply passionate about dismantling systemic... View Details

02 Sep 2020
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My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)

Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood imagination—taking her from Wellesley College to the US Department of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung... View Details

29 Jul 2021
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Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

designing interventions to increase vaccination levels for specific populations. I am helping reach vulnerable groups such as older immigrant adults, incarcerated adults, and home health workers, using focus groups and other market... View Details

17 Mar 2021
Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

Independent Project on commercializing space and immigrating to America to actually realize my “moonshot” using the skills and perseverance I developed through previous setbacks. My perseverance has also set up me to navigate some... View Details

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

for washing became associated with Western civilization, and even as an essential entry ticket for immigrants seeking to become true Americans. The transformation of perfume also marks an important stage in the evolution of the modern... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

28 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Channels of Influence

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Christopher J. Malloy

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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

(1930-2007) an immigrant from China who, with her husband James Si-Cheng Chao, built a life in the U.S. and raised six daughters. It is the first building on campus named for a Chinese family and its extraordinary matriarch. After working... View Details

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Financial Aid - Alumni

been and continues to be so critical. From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who grew up in an immigrant family without health care, aspires to make life-saving drugs more accessible and affordable as a biotech... View Details

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

on topics such as government (9 percent), education (4 percent), immigration (4 percent), and civil rights (3 percent). Other categories did not have enough data to significantly identify bias. Of course, those findings don't say which of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

09 May 2023
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Adelina Pak (MBA 2024) The first time I ever asked my parents for help on homework was at HBS. Growing up as a child of Korean View Details

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