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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

organizations. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2426674 Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—Firms play a central role in the selection,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

live and take root, the home in recent times has been elevated to Investment Opportunity, a place where you stayed for awhile, made a lot of money, then moved on to the next home-investment. Is the definition of home about to change once again? Family Sanctuary When... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, with Taiwanese immigrant parents, I considered the path of becoming a medical doctor. However, a volunteering experience at the hospital of the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Beacon of Liberty

me as an immigrant the same opportunities it did to its own citizens. Today, that is still largely the case, unless your name is Mohammad or if you choose to wear the hijab. Since 9/11, almost every Muslim in this country has a story. And... View Details
Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 Jun 2021
  • News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

talked about their views on everything from immigration to gun control to health care to climate change. Whenever I learned something new, I wrote about it for the Boston Globe. Over the years, two things became clear to me: We have much... View Details
Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • News

Signal Boost

inclusion in businesses and organizations in western Michigan. It sprang up in the late 1990s when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. “A lot of Latino immigrants moved to areas like Holland,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

companies for which it raised funds were people of color, 25 times the share backed by traditional venture capitalists. Republic now makes inclusion part of every pitch: Company listings are assigned tags such as Female Founders, Veteran Founders, and View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Letters to the Editor

article about Ted Levitt. I personally felt a special connection to him, perhaps as a result of our shared immigrant roots. We argued at length the concept that America was moving away from the melting-pot tradition he so much believed... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

brother, Jacob, immigrated to Queens in 2000. They later established Bean&Bean, located in Manhattan near the Wall Street subway station, right before the financial crisis hit in 2008. The family eventually grew the company to four... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 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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  • 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
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

extended turbulence. This working paper suggests that this context drove different business responses than in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

set of challenges that deter us from embracing entrepreneurship. Even within the Asian-American community, each individual experiences different challenges based on their upbringing. Generally, though, we’re heavily influenced by our parents’ View Details
  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

paternal grandparents who immigrated from Russia to Brooklyn, where they raised Bob and Larry Tisch, the legendary duo who parlayed the purchase of a New Jersey hotel into what today is a hugely successful conglomerate, the Loews... View Details