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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
  • 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
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

Shepard Quraeshi Associates (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
Samina Quraeshi, principal of Boston-based Shepard Quraeshi Associates, must decide whether to take legal action against her key employees after they leave her firm to start their own, taking with them key clients and data. Quraeshi sees the situation as reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Nationality; Ethics; Employees; Gender; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Immigration; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

through all the management issues we discussed and learned about in class the last couple years. First, we need to consider all the stakeholders involved and develop practical solutions to satisfy each one. It is an economic development... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream. Traditionally, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Profile

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
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

forthcoming Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey Abstract—Improving the political participation of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

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
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

applies in cases where the political process is sufficiently "thick," in that diverse views are well represented, and sufficiently detailed information about the issues is widely available. However, we draw on a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Britain has shamefully taken almost none, but the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, and others who settled in Britain under rules of the European Union that allow the free movement of labor inside the EU. Hundreds of thousands of Britons live or work elsewhere in the EU... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 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
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

practices along the way. High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner University of Chicago Press Immigration policy is one of the most contentious... View Details
  • 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
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

When the Egyptian government forced out all Jewish inhabitants after the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Cohens left with only one suitcase apiece. His mother’s British citizenship made it possible for them to immigrate to London, where they had... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

understand this phenomenon over time and what role companies played in translating a few buyers' initial curiosity into widespread consumer loyalty. Brand New examines these issues by focusing on six outstanding entrepreneurs. Debora... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner