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- October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Fantuan
By: Feng Zhu and David Lane
In 2023, CEO Randy Wu was considering the optimal growth strategy for Fantuan, a restaurant food delivery platform that had expanded from its 2014 founding in Vancouver, Canada to serve the Chinese demand for Asian cuisine in urban markets across Australia, Canada, the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Digital Platforms;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Canada;
United Kingdom;
Australia
Zhu, Feng, and David Lane. "Fantuan." Harvard Business School Case 624-023, October 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Aphro Beverages
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on distribution, sales, and product decisions as Aphro Beverages reaches an inflection point in its growth trajectory. In 2020, Aphro Beverages, based in Accra, Ghana, successfully launched its brand and brought two new alcoholic spirits products to...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Business Ventures;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Digital Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Social Marketing;
Operations;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Product;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Supply Chain;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Africa;
Ghana
Cespedes, Frank V., and Amram Migdal. "Aphro Beverages." Harvard Business School Case 823-044, October 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into...
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Keywords:
Business Startup;
Fintech;
Inflation;
Deflation;
Cross-border Frictions;
Remittances;
Business Startups;
Diasporas;
Financial Crisis;
Money;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Poverty;
Financial Institutions;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Lebanon
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- July 2018
- Article
Global Collaborative Patents
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Ethnic Networks;
Migration;
Technology Transfer;
Mobility;
Information Technology;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Diasporas;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
Entrepreneurship;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Globalization;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Global Collaborative Patents." Economic Journal 128, no. 612 (July 2018): F235–F272.
- Fall 2017
- Article
The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets
By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
History;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Business History;
Asia;
Latin America;
Africa
Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones. "The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets." Special Issue on Methodologies. Business History Review 91, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 537–569.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History
By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones
This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate...
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Austin, Gareth, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones. "Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-012, August 2017.
- 2017
- Article
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of...
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Keywords:
Migration;
Talent;
Diaspora;
Agglomeration;
Diasporas;
Industry Clusters;
Talent and Talent Management;
Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234.
- 2017
- Chapter
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Diaspora;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Chap. 6 in The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation: New Evidence and Policy Implications, edited by Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez, 193–221. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- May 2017
- Case
Pho Hoa Dorchester
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu
Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of...
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Keywords:
Pho Hoa;
Tam Le;
Small Business;
Restaurants;
Dorchester;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
Family Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Diasporas;
Cash Flow;
Food;
Employment;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Leading Change;
Business Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Ownership Stake;
Franchise Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Viet Nam;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
Eastern United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Michael Raiche, and Roger Zhu. "Pho Hoa Dorchester." Harvard Business School Case 317-121, May 2017.
- January 2017
- Case
TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme
By: William R. Kerr, Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner and Alexis Brownell
TalentCorp Malaysia runs the "Returning Expert Programme" (REP), a government program designed to encourage Malaysian professionals abroad to return home through use of various incentives. The REP is intended to combat the "brain drain," caused by highly educated...
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Keywords:
Malaysia;
Diaspora;
Brain Drain;
Migration;
Diasporas;
Government and Politics;
Immigration;
Human Capital;
Programs;
Malaysia
Kerr, William R., Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner, and Alexis Brownell. "TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme." Harvard Business School Case 817-092, January 2017.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Global Talent Flows
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we...
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "Global Talent Flows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-026, October 2016.
- July 2014
- Article
Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name...
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Keywords:
Diaspora;
Outsourcing;
oDesk;
Networks;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Diasporas;
Internet and the Web;
Ethnicity;
Service Industry;
South Asia;
India
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India." Management Science 60, no. 7 (July 2014): 1677–1697.
- September 2013
- Case
Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Homestrings is an online investment platform for overseas diasporas to link financially with their home countries. The founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company...
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Keywords:
Diasporas;
Investments;
Regulations;
Africa;
Crowd-funding;
Development Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Financial Services Industry;
Africa;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development." Harvard Business School Case 814-031, September 2013.
- 2013
- Working Paper
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This...
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Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-017, August 2013.
- July 2013
- Article
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the...
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Keywords:
Technology Transfer;
Innovation;
Ethnic Networks;
Patents;
Diasporas;
Ethnicity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529–1544.
- Article
Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have...
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Keywords:
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Nanda, Ramana, and Tarun Khanna. "Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 19, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 991–1012.
- February 2009
- Case
Paresh Patel: Building a Life in the Context of Global Business - October 2007
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence
This case tells the story of Paresh Patel, born in Boston to an Indian immigrant family, as he develops an entrepreneurial career, participates in the Indian diaspora, and builds a family life. It provides background on Paresh's heritage, describes his youth and...
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Keywords:
Diasporas;
Work-Life Balance;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Boston;
Mumbai
Stevenson, Howard H., and Shirley Spence. "Paresh Patel: Building a Life in the Context of Global Business - October 2007." Harvard Business School Case 809-045, February 2009.
- January 2009
- Journal Article
The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.
By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers
Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Diasporas;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Taxation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Human Capital;
Mathematical Methods;
India;
United States
Desai, Mihir, D. Kapur, J. McHale, and K Rogers. "The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S." Journal of Development Economics 88, no. 1 (January 2009).
- 2007
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism
By: G. Jones and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
These volumes demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the history of global capitalism, the authors show that historical knowledge can challenge widely accepted...
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Keywords:
History;
Diasporas;
Economic Systems;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Jones, G. and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, eds. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
- August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Background Note
Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network
By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg
Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Kerr, William R., and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network." Harvard Business School Background Note 808-029, August 2007. (Revised July 2008.) (Featured in a 2008 Harvard Business Review write-up.)