Immigrants - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

can’t move for a job Choudhury emphasizes the pain points that occur when company requirements and personal autonomy clash: Employees often can’t move for an in-person position due to a spouse’s career, immigration challenges, or... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

January 2017
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TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme

By: William R. Kerr, Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner and Alexis Brownell

TalentCorp Malaysia runs the "Returning Expert Programme" (REP), a government program designed to encourage Malaysian professionals abroad to return home through use of various incentives. The REP is intended to combat the "brain drain," caused by highly educated... View Details

Keywords: Malaysia; Diaspora; Brain Drain; Migration; Diasporas; Government and Politics; Immigration; Human Capital; Programs; Malaysia

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Recession – led the city to record job growth. After leaving City Hall, he resumed leadership of Bloomberg L.P. and expanded his philanthropic work through Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Center at Baker Library is named for Bloomberg’s father, William, a... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

there were huge communities of all kinds of immigrants to Cleveland who came looking for jobs and were integrated into the workforce over time. And my parents were very much a part of that. Both my parents were very involved in the Civil... View Details

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Rishon Benjamin

promise to retain the undying grit of that teenage immigrant who came to the US looking for a better life; the grit that I know will allow me to persevere no matter the challenge. Asset turn . what I rely on to make a difference in the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

emotions and shield moments of openness. Was I really a proud and openly gay man if everyone, except my dad, knew? My apá is a stoic man; he has never been a man of many words or emotions. Like many immigrant parents, his hands are tired,... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

marginalized in our country will be harmed if the positions Trump has taken are translated into policy during his administration: Immigrant families, LGBTQ citizens, African Americans, Muslims and others are fearful that disparaging, even... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

English-language education—which was more difficult to get after Sri Lanka left the British Commonwealth. They would have liked to go to Australia, but that country was just ending a decades-long, whites-only immigration policy, and as I... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

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Haley Brown

dreams come true. I come from a line of people who sacrificed to give me a life better than their own – grandparents who battled racism, poverty, and being an immigrant in the United States; parents who worked around the clock to provide... View Details

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Justine Lee

classroom or my network, like how to find fulfillment as an immigrant or what it feels like to lose your partner or how to let go of your kids when all you want to do is hold on. When we leave HBS, our education isn’t over. It continues... View Details

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Centennial: Lehman Brothers, 1850–1950. New York: Lehman Brothers, 1950. Archibald, Robert. “Mayer Lehman (1830–1897).” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present , vol. 2. Ed. William J.... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Natives' Marriage and Fertility" with Michela Carlana. Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of a grant from the UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai... View Details

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Yung Winata

that you admire the most today? My mother. Like so many hard-working immigrants in search of a better life for their families, she arrived in this country with no money and no one to turn to for help. She sacrificed for the limitless... View Details

11 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Keywords: by Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

depended not on the topic but on the ideology of the listener. (Participants were asked to judge statements on either transgender or immigration policy, for example.) Because politically correct labels are often applied to groups that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Megan Maloney

memory? The sound of Stevie Wonder’s Hotter than July playing as my parents hosted summer BBQs for our neighbors and friends. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My grandmothers. I know that’s two but they are both incredible. One is an... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

pot. The American Dream embraced by immigrants over the past two centuries has been the opportunity to set one's own goals and pursue them honestly to the limits of one's ambition and ability. Too many Americans have been expressing the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

2024
Working Paper

Migration, Climate Similarity, and the Consequences of Climate Mismatch

By: Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini and Charles Taylor

This paper examines the concept of “climate matching” in migration—the idea that migrants seek out destinations with familiar climates. Focusing on the US, we document that temperature distance between origin and destination predicts the distribution of migrants across... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Climate; Immigration; Residency; Weather; Ethnicity; Climate Change; Geographic Location; Policy; United States