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- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
kind that comes from years spent sitting in a plastic-and-bamboo shelter with no end in sight. Each day is the same, giving these migrants too much time to ruminate about the horrific violence they survived, family they lost, and where...
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by Danielle Kost
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market
the workplace. Generation X: The Digital Migrants Born in 1967, I came of age during a key digital revolution in the United States. In the late 1970s my friends and I were playing video games on consoles attached to our televisions. By...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
transfer, but also all the novel recombinations that come from migrants working with locals.” Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) But Choudhury also observed the many obstacles that can...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
education for young adults who are typically not encouraged to aim for college. “They come from tough backgrounds, from abusive homes, from poverty, from gang violence, from migrant families,” says Navarro, who is also an instructor....
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
student, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The first sixteen years of Martín Curiel’s life followed the cycles of the harvest. As migrant farmworkers, his parents moved Curiel and his two sisters from Mexico to the United States, where...
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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
the empirical facts we observe. Our results illustrate how financial innovation can mitigate investor behavioral biases. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53859 Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
is the appropriate response to what assuredly would be opposition from U.S. labor unions? Or is there an intermediate step perhaps involving renewable work permits requiring a periodic return to Mexico, something many migrants do anyway?...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
companies that depend on migrant workers such as the mining industry must consider the social dynamic created by men working away from their families many months out of the year. The sex trade in which those men participate has been...
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by Julie Jette
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Matejmo] Related Reading Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations What do you think of this...
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by Kristen Senz
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
spur to migrants hammering at the gates of Europe and America. But the goal of poverty reduction will not be reached unless the world tries something new. It is clear from the experience of countries that have been most successful in...
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by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for... 23 Feb 2022 Podcast Managing the Future of Work MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work Bill Kerr 2022 Working Paper The...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the...
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Global Outposts Expand HBS's Intellectual Footprint - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker's production in Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of...
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- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
etc., all the way up to 2013. (These findings held true only in those industries in which migrants tried to find jobs during the Dust Bowl—manufacturing jobs, for instance, but not teaching jobs.) In other words, it wasn’t all migration...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Global - Global Activities 2020
researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s production in Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China’s labor shortage of migrant workers....
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in large urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and...
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Sean Silverthorne