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  • Fall 2016
  • Article

Global Talent Flows

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Human Capital; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Competency and Skills; Immigration
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  • August 2023
  • Article

Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data... View Details
Keywords: Migration; North Africa; Morocco; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Middle East; Immigration; Perception; Developing Countries and Economies; Labor; Morocco
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  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market

to revolution and de ne social media in a few years. As digital migrants, Generation X immigrated to a working world that required the use of technology to survive and to get ahead and we were the rst-adopters of these internet-based... View Details
  • Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In... 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
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Immigration: A Survey Authors:Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr Abstract This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. Particular emphasis is given to the experiences of Northern Europe and Scandinavia. The survey first examines... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2024
  • Article

Global Mobile Inventors

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ernest Miguelez and Sara Signorelli
The number of Global Mobile Inventors (GMIs), inventors moving across borders during their career, has increased more than tenfold over the past two decades, and the corridors of mobility have shifted towards a growing presence of emerging markets. We document that... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Immigration; Patents; Knowledge; Technological Innovation
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  • 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
  • January 2025
  • Article

Everyone Steps Back?: The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators When Migration Fear Is High

By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr, Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz
We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Immigration; Public Opinion
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  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • September 2020
  • Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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  • February 2019
  • Article

The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Do Yoon Kim
Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions.... View Details
Keywords: Skilled Migration; Ethnic Migration; First-generation Migrant; Cultural Context; Knowledge Flows; Knowledge Reuse; Knowledge Recombination; Recombinant Creation; H1B Visas; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Dissemination; Immigration; Ethnicity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 30 Jan 2017
  • News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

executive order that restricts entry, including reentry, into the U.S. for citizens and nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen on both immigrant (permanent residence or green card) and non-immigrant visas. Foreign... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • News

Well Said

cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that View Details
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

MBA vs. MBA

mixed success, to make immigration a hot-button issue, accusing Edwards of being soft on illegal immigrants. Talking tough, Taylor vows to fight any amnesty plan and favors deporting illegals. “I’m for zero penetration on the border,” he... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 06 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

identifying the Joneses like you. Immigration. The prevalence of immigrants among America's successful entrepreneurs is well documented. But the same curiosity and openness to new things also characterizes consumer demand in the American... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • Profile

Alice Yang

Alice Yang was born in Taiwan, then lived in the Netherlands before immigrating to the United States. “The experience of attending public schools on three continents gave me a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunities I’ve been... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

Kristina Wang (MBA 2020) is an MBA student at HBS who just completed her first year and is currently interning at Denali Therapeutics before her second year. I did not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, with Taiwanese... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

The daughter of Nigerian and Togolese immigrants who settled in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001) was raised to know the value of a strong family and a good education. In light of the sacrifices her parents made to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services