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  • Portrait Project

Nana Quagraine

I faced remarks about the inferiority of blacks and women in science. These experiences threatened to shatter my values and aspirations. Growing up my parents taught me to treat each person equally, irrespective of their status. But as an View Details
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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
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception

By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Mara Vidali
Under what conditions do citizens and elites support the creation of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their area, and what types of facilities do they prefer? What types of concerns underlay these preferences and how do they differ by ideology and elite... View Details
Keywords: National Security; Immigration; Refugees; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Greece
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  • Portrait Project

Rafiq Ahmed

I have always struggled to answer when people ask me about my family’s heritage. Since my parents and grandparents spent their lives across several countries – Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India – before immigrating to America, I... 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
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

A Wider Net

Miami at age 15 from India, organized sports weren’t an easy option. “I had to work, because my family came here as immigrants with nothing,” he says. “So my day job was high school, and my evening job was at the Publix supermarket.”... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

Blockchain for Good

After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

discover how immigration law affects the number of such patents, and explain how, under certain conditions, patenting traditional medicine can mutually benefit both corporate firms and indigenous communities. Where's The Proof? The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 21 Jul 2022
  • News

How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail

Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton, Mass., the child of Jewish View Details
Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • News

DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her background—her View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Library Dues

Schwarzman is donating $100 million to the institution, the largest gift in its history, the Associated Press reported (March 12, 2008). Established in 1895, the library is “a passport to the American dream for lower- and middle-income Americans and View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 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
  • 26 Feb 2025
  • Podcast

David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college

AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological disruption and updates the post-secondary picture. View Details
  • March 2025
  • Article

Global Talent and Economic Success

By: William R. Kerr
Access to top performers sets an upper bound on a country’s aspirations. View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Talent and Talent Management
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Eric Chavez

Eric Chavez, the son of immigrants who moved from Mexico to find greater opportunity in the United States, “does not take this life for granted.” His parents worked their way up from picking lemons in California to maintaining properties... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech
  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Harris on immigration The findings reflect the constantly changing state of politics and voter behavior. In a separate piece of new research, Pons considers the array of voter participation barriers that have changed in recent years,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli and James M. Sappenfield
Leveraging a unique dataset merging patent data with all work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Technology; Policy Evaluation; Patents; Information Technology; Immigration; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Globalization
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  • 2017
  • Article

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49624 Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey Abstract—Improving the political participation of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • News

Keeping a Community Connected

to food sites because of their immigration status. There is a high demand for food and it is going up quickly. SY: What are your top priorities at this point? JP: The demand for food is a critical need right now. There's a moratorium on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young