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  • 16 Feb 2021
  • News

Fostering Authenticity and Employee Engagement at John Deere

  • 19 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

During my first year at HBS, I was given training wheels in the form of 93 new friends/sectionmates and an Outlook calendar that told me exactly where I needed to be when. The notion of choice didn’t really exist during my first year on campus. Instead, I tried to... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 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
  • 25 May 2019
  • News

Gifts of the immigrants, woes of the natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

    María Emilia Correa

    Keywords: B-Corp
    • June, 2024
    • Book Review

    Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of 'Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success' (PublicAffairs, 2022) by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

    By: Marco Tabellini
    This essay reviews Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. This elegantly written book, highly accessible to both economists and non-economists, is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of... View Details
    Keywords: Immigration; History; United States
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    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Fostering Authenticity and Employee Engagement at John Deere

    Keywords: Re: Anthony Mayo; Manufacturing
    • 13 May 2019
    • News

    Banning immigrants’ languages can backfire. Just ask Ohio and Indiana.

    • Article

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details
    Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe
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    • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    Rosalind Fox at John Deere

    By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
    Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets and Industries; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Trust; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • 23 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Public Sector; Immigration; Labor; Europe; Scandinavia
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    • February 1997
    • Background Note

    Errors in Social Judgment: Implications for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Part 1

    For the past quarter-century, the field of social cognition has documented a number of ways in which individuals and groups are prone to make characteristic errors when judging others. This note examines the ways in which these tendencies pose difficulties for... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 22 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22

    practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

    students graduating from US schools who need a work visa). What about refugees, who are becoming more common globally? Research finds that refugees assimilate at an even faster rate into the economy and the workplace than general migrants... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

    By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
    Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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    • Web

    Aldrich Hall | About

    finance to Baker Library. They also donated furniture and decorated a room to house the collection in Baker Library. The “Aldrich Library of Finance” was installed the following spring and remained a separate collection until it was View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Tory Voight

    ridden with guilt for leaving a past that taught me so much and feeling alone, assimilating into a new world I couldn’t relate to. This tension subsided as an adult when I took an unfiltered look at my mother. No one in her life regarded... View Details
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

    industrial-strength evaluation processes. There is no time for slow assimilation when substituting acquisitions for R&D. The new people won't work if the vision and values aren't compatible. Cultural due diligence is especially... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower