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  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones
This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

  PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

money. They have to be clever experiments, not expensive ones. Q: How does each country treat its diaspora in terms of stoking entrepreneurship at "home"? A: To put it bluntly, China has embraced its diaspora, and India has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • February 2009
  • Case

Paresh Patel: Building a Life in the Context of Global Business - October 2007

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence
This case tells the story of Paresh Patel, born in Boston to an Indian immigrant family, as he develops an entrepreneurial career, participates in the Indian diaspora, and builds a family life. It provides background on Paresh's heritage, describes his youth and... View Details
Keywords: Diasporas; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Boston; Mumbai
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  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

suggests that exclusive preferential placement disproportionately impacts traffic to top sites most likely relevant to users' requests. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2251294 Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

technology lab." Tell us briefly how and why you believe Chinese and Indian émigrés have come to perpetuate such different roles. Do you see these roles changing? A: The different composition of the Chinese and Indian diasporas has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

  Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571921 Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract This study examines the role of the Indian View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

Keywords: by Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang
While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador
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  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağllar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

its diaspora in the past quarter century. Supporting the efforts of such individual change-agents is a way forward. There can be corporate bridges also, to build on these interpersonal ones. Western corporations taking the long view of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Fantuan

By: Feng Zhu and David Lane
In 2023, CEO Randy Wu was considering the optimal growth strategy for Fantuan, a restaurant food delivery platform that had expanded from its 2014 founding in Vancouver, Canada to serve the Chinese demand for Asian cuisine in urban markets across Australia, Canada, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Canada; United Kingdom; Australia
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  • January 2009
  • Journal Article

The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.

By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers
Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Human Capital; Mathematical Methods; India; United States
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  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

of this group of individuals has ushered in a necessary style of management that is different from the traditional ‘conservative’ approach that we see on the East Coast.” Scocimara added, “From the early roots of the Fairchild diaspora... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 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 immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Europe is seething with nationalism and racism. There are large and growing extreme right wing parties from Sweden to Greece, many of which enjoy waving Nazi flags. Fascist parties are in power in Hungary and Poland. There is a huge crisis with the View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

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