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- April 2017 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman
By: Geoffrey Jones and Kathy Choi
This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Helena Rubinstein before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started...
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Keywords:
Female Entrepreneur;
Brands and Branding;
Luxury;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Jones, Geoffrey, and Kathy Choi. "Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman." Harvard Business School Case 317-116, April 2017. (Revised February 2023.)
- 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.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: Transfer and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders
Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions....
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Keywords:
Skilled Migration;
Ethnic Migration;
First-generation Migrant;
Cultural Context;
Knowledge Flows;
Knowledge Reuse;
Knowledge Recombination;
Recombinant Creation;
H1B Visas;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Immigration;
Ethnicity
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: Transfer and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-069, January 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- Fall 2016
- Article
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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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Human Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Competency and Skills;
Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "Global Talent Flows." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 83–106.
- 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.
- October 3, 2016
- Article
Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This article summarizes recent research on how immigrants contribute to the formation of U.S. start-ups and the traits of the businesses founded.
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 3, 2016).
- 2016
- Working Paper
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields using multiple definitions....
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Keywords:
Immigrants;
Entrepreneurs;
Entry;
Firms;
Growth;
High-tech Marketing;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-011, July 2016. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22385, July 2016.)
- April 2016 (Revised July 2016)
- Case
Managing the European Refugee Crisis
By: Gunnar J. Trumbull, Elena Corsi and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In 2016, Europe struggles to cope with one of the largest refugee flows it has ever witnessed.
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Trumbull, Gunnar J., Elena Corsi, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Managing the European Refugee Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 716-076, April 2016. (Revised July 2016.)
- November 2015 (Revised November 2015)
- Teaching Note
Immigration Policy in Germany
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Frank Jerome LaNasa and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice
2013 AL Fellow, 2014 Senior AL Fellow
Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights groups, Paul Lee, who... View Details
Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights groups, Paul Lee, who... View Details
Keywords:
Leadership Skills;
Asian;
Asian Americans;
Asian Americans Advancing Justice;
Civil Rights;
Asian Law Caucus;
Asian Pacific American Legal Center;
Asian American Institute;
Asian American Justice Center;
Immigration Issues;
Immigration Reform;
Affirmative Action;
Coalition;
Asian American Activism;
Japanese;
Chinese;
Korean;
Indian;
Pakistani;
Hmong;
Cambodian;
Laotians;
Filipino;
Vietnamese;
Pacific Islanders;
Ethnic Group;
Model Minority;
Anti-asian Prejudice;
Pan-asian;
Discrimination;
Immigrants;
Immigration Acts;
Alien Land Laws;
Sei Fujii;
Naturalize;
Interracial;
Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965;
Refugees;
War;
Warfare;
Vincent Chin;
Bigotry;
Chinatown;
Boston;
Social Impact;
Asian American Lawyers Association;
National Asian Pacific Bar Association;
Asian Community Development Corporation;
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence;
Southeast Asia;
Mee Moua;
Change Management;
Demographics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Rights;
Immigration;
Leadership;
Problems and Challenges;
Society;
North and Central America
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Frank Jerome LaNasa, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-040, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...
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Keywords:
Self-employed;
Occupation;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Industry Clusters;
Ethnicity;
Immigration;
Networks;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-042, October 2015. (Revised November 2020. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21597, September 2015)
- Article
Chris Argyris (1923–2013)
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Chris Argyris, a pioneer in the fields of organization development, organizational learning, and action science, passed away on November 16, 2013. Argyris was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 16, 1923, to Greek immigrant parents, and grew up in Irvington, New...
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Edmondson, Amy C. "Chris Argyris (1923–2013)." American Psychologist 70, no. 5 (July–August 2015): 473.
- July 2015
- Article
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled...
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Keywords:
Firms;
Scientists;
Engineers;
Inventors;
H-1B;
Age;
Employment;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. S1 (July 2015): S147–S186.
- 2015
- Chapter
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Human Capital;
Immigration;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 115–152. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- March 2015 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Immigration Policy in Germany (A)
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Alastair Su
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel faced economic and moral pressure to encourage greater immigration from struggling European, and especially Eurozone, countries after the economic downturn that began in 2008. In fact, it was possible that both the Euro currency union...
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Keywords:
Citizenship;
Optimal Currency Unions;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Immigration;
Policy;
Germany;
European Union
Weinzierl, Matthew, Katrina Flanagan, and Alastair Su. "Immigration Policy in Germany (A)." Harvard Business School Case 715-029, March 2015. (Revised March 2023.)
- January 2015
- Case
Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cité: Establishing Youth Service in France
By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Anne-Claire Pache
Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cité should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994, Trellu-Kane and her co-founders had been creating and overseeing a civil service...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Leadership;
Non-profit Management;
Government And Business;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Paris
Battilana, Julie, Michel Anteby, and Anne-Claire Pache. "Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cité: Establishing Youth Service in France." Harvard Business School Case 415-035, January 2015.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Skilled Immigration and Firm-Level Innovation: Evidence from H-1B Lottery
By: Andy Wu
- November 2014
- Article
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
By: William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln and Prachi Mishra
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998–2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly...
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Keywords:
Lobbying;
Political Economy;
H-1B;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Policy;
Immigration
Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra. "The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6, no. 4 (November 2014): 343–379.
- October 2014
- Case
Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond...
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Keywords:
Diversity Management;
Corporate Values;
Competitiveness;
Demographics;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Literacy;
Nationality;
Race;
Residency;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Culture;
Economic Growth;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Immigration;
Employee Relationship Management;
Civil Society or Community;
Manufacturing Industry;
Construction Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
Germany;
Russia;
Turkey
Rose, Clayton, Jerome Lenhardt, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference." Harvard Business School Case 315-016, October 2014.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and...
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Keywords:
Exports;
Comparative Advantage;
Technological Transfer;
Innovation;
Networks;
Patents;
Residency;
Technology Adoption;
Trade;
Research and Development;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, William R. "Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-039, November 2013. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19657, November 2013.)