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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
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... 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
- 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
- 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
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli, and James M. Sappenfield. "Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-047, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 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
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "Global Talent Flows." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 83–106.
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US scientists and engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater... View Details
Keywords: Inventors; Scientists; Engineers; Information Technology; Patents; Ethnicity; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Immigration; China; United States; India
Kerr, William R. "The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-006, May 2007. (Permanent working paper describing ethnic-name patenting data, revised December 2008.)
- 01 May 2024
- Podcast
Wharton’s Peter Cappelli on changing the talent equation
What are the consequences of treating employees as an expense rather than an asset? Cappelli argues that this “penny wise and pound foolish” practice hurts the bottom line by discouraging investments in a skilled workforce and prioritizing downsizing, irrespective of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy (Harvard University Press). To the rescue, McCraw recounts, came two unheralded immigrants, Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, later regarded by most experts as the two greatest US... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
up the child of immigrants with language school on weekends, or it meant foreign tourist, in town for a few years for a job or degree. As someone who was raised in Hong Kong, but has enjoyed over ten years in the US, where did I belong?... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
what challenges I wanted to confront in my life and career. As an immigrant from a war-torn country and a student of business, I wanted to find ways to use my business skills to improve the lives of others, just as mine was improved when... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
On track: “There’s a feeling of precariousness in the immigrant mindset, so having a sensible, certain career is very big. That’s probably why my little sister is a doctor, and I studied law at Cambridge.” Shifting gears: “I think we all... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and health care delivery. “My parents... View Details