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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
In the Spotlight
time when a wave of cultivated European immigrants was arriving in New York and America. “La Guardia believed that it was very important to provide this audience with an enormously high quality of opera, and that it should be accessible,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You recounts her own family’s story, but also those of other refugees she met at camps in Greece, or at other points along their path to escape. Nayeri says that, having experienced life as a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” not enough to get my immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” Cited (photo by CL Media/iStock) (photo by CL Media/iStock) “About... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS
Chu Chao. The Chaos, émigrés from Taiwan and a remarkable immigrant success story, are the only family ever to have four daughters attend HBS. "Because Ruth devoted her life to promoting excellence in education and enhancing US-China... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
more than forty articles for academic and professional journals. Born in 1919 in Lancashire, England, Dearden immigrated with his family to western Massachusetts in 1924. He received a bachelor’s degree from American International College... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.” He estimates that for every child Safe Passage is currently assisting, there are three others in the New York area who don’t have legal representation in immigration court.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Library Dues
Schwarzman is donating $100 million to the institution, the largest gift in its history, the Associated Press reported (March 12, 2008). Established in 1895, the library is “a passport to the American dream for lower- and middle-income Americans and View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
executive order that restricts entry, including reentry, into the U.S. for citizens and nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen on both immigrant (permanent residence or green card) and non-immigrant visas. Foreign... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
summa cum laude; JD '93, Washington University School of Law; MSW '93, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Assistant District Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, El Paso, Tex. Maryann Tsang Fong, AB '80, cum laude.... View Details