Migration - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

problem that hits hardest at people with the least capital and it’s a real social justice concern in the case of possible sea level rise. Migration Migration manifests in many ways. Florida is one of the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

29 May 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

distribution of wealth, environmental challenges, migration of workers, and the threat of protectionism. Governments and international organizations need to devise solutions to this problem. Harvard Business School can play a role in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

at Harvard Business School. The thing that happened was the Dust Bowl: a series of severe dust storms and droughts that decimated farms in the Great Plains during the 1930s, forcing thousands of families to abandon their property. Many View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do displaced workers View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

know, no substantive solutions were reached. Instead, “markets” provided the best regulation. By 2011, according to a Pew Research Center study, the number of Mexican-born residents in the US had actually begun to decline as the Mexican economy began providing more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international migration motivated by income inequality; potentially adverse actions by large and economically powerful emerging nations;... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

with the results that NAFTA has produced. But it seems not to have receded in interest among at least one group of readers of this column. The column "What Lies Beyond NAFTA?," with a focus on future responses to issues concerning View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

18 Oct 2016
First Look

October 18, 2016

effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider—the first five to seven years during and after upgrades—the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly to the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

taking to Staples.com and Merck-Medco. Why didn't they embrace Webvan, Kozmo.com, and grocery deliverers such as Homeruns to the same extent? A: There's a simple answer. It's the idea that there's a direct migration path from direct mail... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fishing stocks as well as by migration driven by both income inequality and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

Funding the Design of Livable CitiesAs a burgeoning global population migrates to the world's urban centers, it's crucial to design livable cities that function with scarce natural resources. John Macomber discusses the critical... View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their home countries, but the overall effect that the migration has on the home country remains unclear. We know very little about return View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

product in the next period. Use common sense. If the Wal-Mart parking lot looks less crowded, some consumers are probably migrating back to Target and vice versa. Develop scenarios. How long the current recession will last is widely... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

The trend is independent from the Rust Belt overseas job migration that occurred in the same timeframe, the researchers note. “We've always known bigger cities have more patents, even on a per capita basis, than smaller cities,” Kerr... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

teraflop of processing power, and today's high-end, high-speed chips will migrate down into a wide swath of consumer devices. Another key driver is the arrival of broadband technology on a global scale, which allows bandwidth-intensive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's preference to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

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