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Doug Marsan

hard work and decisions my parents undertook when immigrating to the U.S. to make that moment a reality for me. What is your favorite childhood memory? One summer in grade school, my friends and I built a treehouse in a forest by our... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr This paper studies the impact that View Details

09 Jun 2022
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From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

maybe they became a supervisor and moved into management.” Other strategies the company, along with the entire industry, is eyeing to address the driver shortage include self-driving trucks, lowering the age for license eligibility to 18, and advocating for the release... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

area. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID? Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness Have IT jobs lost their prestige?... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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

16 May 2023
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Iris Yu (MBA 2023) My family story is one of many variations on the theme of the American Dream. My parents immigrated from China to... View Details

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

11 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Keywords: by Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

connecting passengers. The system allows airport and airline officials to address likely bottlenecks before the security or immigration queues back up, and identify passengers at risk of missing connecting flights. Using real-time data... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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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

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

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

25 Apr 2024
News

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

January 2017
Case

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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September 2023
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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé

We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Immigration; Talent and Talent Management; India

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

UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai Gehring) in 2018. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “Financing 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

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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

10 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

describes his journey to the Marine Corps as one inspired by his father’s immigrant roots and the events of 9/11. The story of his father’s emigration from Mexico to the suburbs of Los Angeles, and his work as a ranch hand while attending... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

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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