Immigration - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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

01 Dec 2014
News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

Portrait Project

Ben Schumacher

immigrants and their families through our business, and I came to understand that life's true purpose is enabling others. When I was 25, I realized that, in this country, not every man becomes the man he should be. I found that we... 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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15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

economic growth and competitiveness—including reforming the corporate tax code, easing immigration for high-skilled immigrants, investing in infrastructure, and aggressively addressing abuses in the international trading system—divisive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
News

Dear Future Author…

(OPM 30, 2001), former Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney and coauthor of How to Get a Green Card, now in its 12th edition “Know your motivation. Know what drives you to write and publish. You don’t have to want to change the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

she was born, says she believes the hardships faced by her immigrant family in Lowell, Massachusetts, "selected for qualities of stamina and determination." Indeed, Rapone turned out to be fit and feisty enough not only to survive but to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the... View Details

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Onay Payne

karate-chop someone on the other side of the negotiating table, I’m challenged and I’m fulfilled and I’m growing. Luckily I’m doing what I do at a moment in history where my career advancement hasn’t been limited by the fact that I’m a woman, that I’m black, that I... View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

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

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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

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

19 Jan 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

not hesitate one second and applied immediately. I felt that it would be much tougher to find time and availability to apply during my professional years. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? I deferred 2 years. It was the best timing for me and my wife to... View Details

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Ruth Cenat

other countries face the same issues as the U.S. in terms of immigration and the integration of different cultures in a society. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? My lifelong ambition is to be... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Monne Williams

that you can't know where people are coming from just by looking at them. Demographics isn't enough. It's when you find out that someone wrote a policy paper on the issue, or came from a home with immigrant parents, that you begin to... View Details

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51197 Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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