immigration - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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

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

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on the city, creating a unique blend that has set it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

transformative. “I feel like I have a superpower,” she told me. “I am my own boss. I make my own schedule. I can’t express how important this is. I now have time to take care of my son, and he is the reason I immigrated in the first... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

graduates from working-class families. I helped my parents deliver packages and clean college dorms in Philadelphia. Christine helped her immigrant parents run a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. It was impossible for us to experience... View Details

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic inequality and instability is causing the wealthiest Chinese to invest outside the country and... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

the form of a stock buyback.) The US government and other borrowers are beneficiaries of this phenomenon, at least for the moment. My favorite barber, an immigrant from Greece with a love for his adopted country that more than matches his... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

this crisis has only reinforced my passion and commitment to closing inequity gaps and improving access in my home state of California. My parents were small business owners - so I know how important access to capital is to immigrants who... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Lincoln Publication:Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

the United States, remittances have become an expected supplement to many family incomes, even as the U.S. economy worsens and many immigrants return. Toting sleeping bags and a change of clothes, we set out on foot to explore the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

increased immigration would help reverse current trends. As he put it, “Those folks tend to be younger, with growing families which require furniture, food, clothing. Our ‘native’ population is aging and doesn’t earn or spend as much.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

for ways to make an impact on problems she was passionate about. As the daughter of immigrants (her father emigrated from Nigeria and her mother emigrated from Ghana) she wanted to use her skills to make an impact in the developing world.... View Details

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces quantile forecasts for the number of passengers arriving at the immigration and security areas. Academic/Practical relevance: Airports and airlines have been challenged to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs affect firms' responses to policy changes. We... View Details