Migrants - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr

March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Pittsburgh: A Successful City?

By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman

Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details

Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania

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15 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Keywords: by Takao Kato & Pian Shu

03 May 2019
HBS Seminar

Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School

11 Apr 2024
In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

up the bulk of the US system. In this case, the migrant is the lead actor in their efforts to come to the US, and a firm is not involved. Upon migration, the individual enters into a general population of workers from which firms draw... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Portrait Project

Nayely Martinez

family’s mantra, a daily reminder that each action influences the next choice available to you. Growing up in a hard-working, predominantly immigrant community in east LA, that mantra seeps through my community’s bones, through generations of View Details

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

the longer-term implications of a particularly inclusive immigration policy. “Sweden is an indicator of the need to wrestle with the immigration issue, and a sign of how difficult it’s going to be.” With a population of only 10.6 million, Sweden has taken in a larger... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Business Review Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers? Martha Lagace 01 Oct 2018 | HBS Working Knowledge Unpacking the Gift of Global Talent with HBS Professor William Kerr Ryo Takahashi 01 Oct 2018 | The... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

use of the facsimile machine took off. The movement of goods across the world was facilitated by the development of larger ocean-going ships, or super-freighters, and the growth of containerization. The flow of migrants across borders... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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The Gift of Global Talent

Kerr, The Brookings Institution The Migrant Economy and the Gift of Global Talent The Migrant Economy and the Gift of Global Talent 2 Nov 2018 William R. Kerr, The Brookings Institution 5 Oct 2018 William R.... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

despite cost-effective FinTech alternatives, many European migrant communities continued to rely on expensive money transfer operators for monthly remittances averaging around 200 per migrant. This puzzling trend emerged due to two key... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Barbara Larson. Our Work-From-Anywhere Future , Harvard Business Review, 2020. Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere? , Harvard Business Review, 2019. With Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi. The Ethnic Migrant Inventor... View Details

Research Summary

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

The White House released a memo with guidance surrounding Justice40 in which they define communities as “either a group of individuals living in geographic proximity to one another, or a geographically dispersed set of individuals (such as View Details

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

year, these disasters result in some 60,000 deaths, mainly in developing countries [5] . Climate Migrants In 2018, 16 million people were displaced by weather-related disasters across 148 countries and territories, including 764,000... View Details

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

Bulletin [Image: MicroStockHub] Related Reading Hold on to Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity What problems have you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

the first patent for the medical use of the herb. “This knowledge had been locked in their home country for decades, if not centuries, and now these skilled ethnic migrants were able to transfer the knowledge here,” says Prithwiraj “Raj”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

01 Jun 2004
News

At Work in the Fields with the Lord

In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

Curiel: Investing in young people who grew up as migrant farmworkers. Photo courtesy Martin Curiel Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) wants you to invest in dreams. Through the Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund (RFDF), the nonprofit he cofounded with... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

06 Nov 2020
News

Signal Boost

organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was... View Details

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