Immigration - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51739 October 3, 2016 Harvard Business Review Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

pressures of a young immigrant family with no relatives in the area as backup support. Nonetheless, the entrepreneurial fervor struck her at HBS while taking classes with Lynda Applegate, Bill Sahlman and Myra Hart. ““I realized... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Vectograph. A professor of art at Smith College who earned his doctorate at Harvard and became an early consultant to Polaroid, Clarence Kennedy had investigated the use of 3-D photography for projecting photographs of works of art, particularly sculpture. Joseph... View Details

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

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy escape from public awareness.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

make it work in Brazil, but they only had a middle-school level education and ultimately decided to start over and immigrate to Boston where my uncle had lived,” said Westphal. “I stayed behind in Brazil with my older sisters for some... View Details

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

whether it’s national security or immigration or healthcare, all had climate implications and required climate considerations. So, for my next role, I joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and worked on a climate... View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by Chris Gash use this navigation to explore the 19 Musts MUST READ The Border by Don Winslow “The Border is a gut-punch crime novel that contrasts the desperation of illegal immigrants with the... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

causing two serious problems for democratic societies: a move to the left and/or political instability in many developing countries and a rising tide of immigrants seeking to move from poor countries to rich. The Hidden Risk in Cutting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

of stopping immigration seemed to be leading inexorably into a Leave vote before the murder last week of the young Member of Parliament Jo Cox by a man who gave his name to the court as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.” Brexit is... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

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Marc Herson

Marc (INSEAD '01) has extensive global experience as a venture capitalist, media executive, entrepreneur and lawyer, working in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His most recent experience is at 2go Interactive, a start-up mobile tech company based in Cape Town, South... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Telecommunications

October 2014
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Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

are putting people in places where they are comfortable and can excel.” Forty-five people have been employed through Dandelion, bringing their talents to Australia’s Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, and Department of View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl

As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

in the 1970s. Naturalization The process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Organizational Behavior The... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

step-by-step framework for letting go of shame; and how just two minutes can make every day intentional. Fortitude: The Story of My Ancestors by Charles Rentschler (MBA 1964) Authorhouse This is the story of Rentschler’s grandfather, George Adam Rentschler, a German... View Details

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

This growth 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... View Details