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      From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
      The Great Migration and immigrant assimilation
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.

      By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini
      We study the effects of religious organizations on immigrants' assimilation. We focus on the arrival of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1900 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America, and anti-Catholic sentiments were widespread. We combine...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Religion; assimilation
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      Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Working Paper, February 2021.
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Rosalind Fox at John Deere

      By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
      Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and...  View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets And Industries; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Personal Development And Career; Prejudice And Bias; Power And Influence; Status And Position; Trust; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; United States
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      Mayo, Anthony, and Olivia Hull. "Rosalind Fox at John Deere." Harvard Business School Case 421-011, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • 2020
      • Article

      Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

      By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
      We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned firms tend to create fewer jobs than native-owned...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Creation; Employee Benefits; Owner Demographics; Exports; Outsourcing; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Demographics; Jobs And Positions; Compensation And Benefits; United States
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      Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012." Art. 103918. Research Policy 49, no. 3 (April 2020).
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

      By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
      How does the appearance of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to...  View Details
      Keywords: assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
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      Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-018, August 2018. (Revised October 2020. Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet and in the Skepticast.)
      • 2014
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      The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

      By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
      Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy...  View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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      Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
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      Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

      By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
      This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into...  View Details
      Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown And Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation Or Environment; Labor And Management Relations; United States; Europe
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      Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey." Finnish Economic Papers 24, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1–32.
      • 2008
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      Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

      By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
      This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into...  View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Public Sector; Immigration; Labor; Europe; Scandinavia
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      Pekkala Kerr, Sari, and William R. Kerr. "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-013, July 2008. (NBER WP 16736, Revised February 2011, forthcoming in Finnish Economic Papers.)
      • February 1997 (Revised September 1998)
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      American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper
      Senior management at AMS, a business and information technology consulting company, is growing at 28% annually and assimilating 1,800 new hires a year. AMS has recently instituted a new knowledge management strategy, a group of six knowledge centers (virtual...  View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation And Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States
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      Leonard, Dorothy A., and Sylvia Sensiper. "American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers." Harvard Business School Case 697-068, February 1997. (Revised September 1998.)
      • 1992
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      A Case Study in the Assimilation of Technology Support for Teams

      By: L. M. Applegate
      Keywords: Groups And Teams; Information Technology; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Technological Innovation
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      Applegate, L. M. "A Case Study in the Assimilation of Technology Support for Teams." In Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour, edited by Robert T. Bostrom, Susan T. Kinney, and Richard T. Watson. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
      • First Quarter 1991
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      Technology Support for Cooperative Work: A Framework for Studying Introduction and Assimilation in Organization

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Keywords: Technology; Framework; Organizations
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Technology Support for Cooperative Work: A Framework for Studying Introduction and Assimilation in Organization." Journal of Organizational Computing 1, no. 1 (First Quarter 1991).
      • 01 Nov 1989
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      Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Field Study on Organization Assimilation of Innovation

      By: L. M. Applegate
      Keywords: Technology; Cooperation
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      Applegate, L. M. "Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A Field Study on Organization Assimilation of Innovation." Paper presented at the Conference on Organizational Computing, Coordination and Collaboration, November 01, 1989.
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