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- 05 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
- Portrait Project
Andrew Velo-Arias
has enabled me to overcome the odds of being the son of immigrants who never attended college, of growing up in a working-class community and attending mediocre public schools. My mom may not have been able to proofread my application... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Growing up in suburban Chicago, Sumaiya Balbale (MBA 2009) and her Indian immigrant parents didn’t see many other Muslims. At school she was teased and bullied—an experience that no doubt shaped her... View Details
- Profile
Paul Scharfman
General Foods, oversees a company that produces 35 varieties of cheeses, providing a welcome taste of home for immigrants from Central and South America, India, and the Middle East. View Details
- Portrait Project
Seth Cohen
been eclipsed by ones of a more personal nature. Of immigrating alone to the U.S. as a teenager. Of being the first in the family to graduate high school. Of drawing strength from the death of a childhood friend. Of failure, and how it... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Melissa Weiksnar
mentor, and love passing along the wisdom of my teachers and managers. I truly appreciate what my education has enabled me to do, especially encouraging those who aspire to be the first in their family to achieve a great milestone. I like to think that my View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II, Makowski View Details
- Career Coach
Okan Okutgen
motivations, strategies and develop their plan to break into new industries. As an international student himself, Okan has navigated the immigration system of the USA and experienced working under multiple visa types and hence can provide... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alpha Mengistu
every day, I remember watching students and recent immigrants temporarily satisfy their yearning for home. Swinging my feet from a bar stool that dwarfed me, I took in the sense of comfort and belonging ladled on their plates right next... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
In the Spotlight
time when a wave of cultivated European immigrants was arriving in New York and America. “La Guardia believed that it was very important to provide this audience with an enormously high quality of opera, and that it should be accessible,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anisha Raghavan
it provides me. Who knows what impact HBS will have on my life? I only know that this school has changed me. That I make it a point to remember I am blessed to be here. That my parents, who immigrated to the U.S. with only eight dollars,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Christine Keung
teachers were the small business owners in my restaurant plaza, immigrants who liked to say they bought themselves a job because no one else would hire them. They showed me the dignity of hard work through each nail filed, shirt... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
self-confident, as well as financially self-sufficient. Forty-five people have been employed through the program at Australia’s Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, and Department of Immigration and Border Protection.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
right.” The Emerson Collective engages in cross-sector partnerships that focus on education, immigration reform, the environment, and social justice initiatives. Bradley has told the story of transforming a magazine (purchased from Mort... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Keven Wang (MBA 2022) October 31, 2001. For the first time in my life, I stepped foot onto a land I did not call my own. To give me a better education, my family... View Details
- Portrait Project
Inessa Lurye
family living on the eighth floor. Months later, we immigrated to a predominantly minority neighborhood in Baltimore. In school, my teacher taped large signs around me in a new language: "CHAIR," "TABLE," they spelled... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
I was able to run a sanity check during my first career coaching session with a specialist on immigration policies. As expected, banking was one of the embracing sectors in terms of visa support. The coach also tutored me about the HBS... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda
Useful for: high-level economic and demographic information on the country. How Immigrants Contribute to Rwanda's Economy A book from the OECD iLibrary that details a specific area of Rwanda's economic growth... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kathy Yuh
immigrating to America at age nine, I felt my biggest flaw was never being wholly one thing. My Korean values of obedience and collectivism have anchored me like roots, and yet my budding American beliefs of equality and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Judy D'Agostino
political persecution and chased freedom, liberty, life. My parents exemplified the archetypal immigrant dream: middle-class Americana.But I was often reminded that I wasn’t really American, despite my birthright. My ‘code-switch’ was a... View Details