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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that suspended new work visas, barring nearly 200,000 foreign workers and their dependents from entering the United States and preventing American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: Visa; Foreign Workers; Fortune 500; Immigration; Policy; System Shocks; Business Ventures; Valuation
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  • 30 Jan 2014
  • News

Calling All Voices

Keywords: meetings; communication; foreign workers
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

digital nomad visas to attract a global workforce. Digital nomad visas allow tourists to legally work in a foreign country, creating a boon for areas trying to attract remote workers and for companies... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • News

Trump to suspend immigration to U.S. for 60 days, citing coronavirus crisis and jobs shortage, but will allow some workers

  • 02 Nov 2018
  • News

A Strategic Contribution to the Immigration Debate

  • 01 Jan 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

recipients are not highly paid (regardless of talent), saying that “green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below-median wages (for a given region): Amazon... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
  • Case

MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details
Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 03 Nov 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms’ Valuation

Keywords: by Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon
  • 23 Oct 2020
  • News

Donald Trump's H-1B Visa Order To Cost US Firms $100 Billion: Report

  • 2018
  • Book

High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

By: Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth,... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Economics; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

By: William R. Kerr
Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other... View Details
Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy
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  • 01 Aug 2011
  • News

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

  • 2020
  • Chapter

The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

By: William R. Kerr
Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other... View Details
Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy
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    The International Price of Remote Work

    We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers located around the world compete for jobs that can be done... View Details
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    Markets Unit at HBS. The cases hold a crucial lesson for business leaders: Tormenting workers can result in dire consequences. While the cases describe an extreme example, Montgomery wonders if the improper pressure tactics used at France... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

    Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
    • 26 Oct 2020
    • News

    Trump's work visas suspension cost $100B in big companies' market value – study

    • 01 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

    arguing since the creation of the program more than 20 years ago: Is the program helpful or hurtful to American workers? “What's not debated is that immigrants are extremely important to innovation" The program enables US employers to hire highly skilled, specialized... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
    • 08 Dec 2020
    • News

    Why Trump’s Visa Ban Cost Fortune 500 Firms $100 Billion

    • 05 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

    traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman