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- 11 Dec 2018
- News
William Kerr on Potential Changes to the H1-B Visa Program
- 16 Jan 2021
- News
How Trump’s H1-B visa an has impacted businesses in the U.S.
- 2022
- Chapter
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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High-tech;
H1-B;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 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...
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Work Visas;
H1-B;
Business Ventures;
Business Startups;
Labor;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Crisis Management;
Employment Industry;
Canada;
United States
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, William R. Kerr, and Susie L. Ma. "MobSquad." Harvard Business School Case 821-010, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- Article
Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump passed an Executive Order drastically cutting the number of highly skilled international workers eligible for non-immigrant visas to the U.S. To quantify the impact of this policy, the authors examined the immediate change in stock...
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Keywords:
Work Visas;
H1-B;
Restriction;
Impact;
Immigration;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Cost;
Economy
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. "Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 22, 2021).
- 01 Feb 2019
- News
The Gift of Global Talent
- 12 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
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by William R. Kerr
- Web
Managing the Future of Work
William Kerr on Potential Changes to the H1-B Visa Program William Kerr on Potential Changes to the H1-B Visa ProgramWilliam Kerr on Potential Changes to the H1-B Visa Program...
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Hiring International Students - Recruiting
common long-term work visa but it may be just one option for you. In fact, each year more than 25,000 U.S. companies employ at least one international worker in H-1B status. Common Business Visas H1-B Specialty Occupation Professional...
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
2018 | The Indicator William Kerr on ‘The Gift of Global Talent’James Pethokoukis 21 Dec 2018 | AEI: Political Economy The Global HR ChallengeWilliam R. Kerr 18 Dec 2018 | HR.com The Innovation EngineJohn A. Griffin 17 Dec 2018 | Harvard Magazine William Kerr Discusses...
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The Gift of Global Talent
2018 | The Indicator William Kerr on ‘The Gift of Global Talent’James Pethokoukis 21 Dec 2018 | AEI: Political Economy The Global HR ChallengeWilliam R. Kerr 18 Dec 2018 | HR.com The Innovation EngineJohn A. Griffin 17 Dec 2018 | Harvard Magazine William Kerr Discusses...
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- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to companies or whether they take jobs away by...
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- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
with the opportunity to apply for an additional three-year extension. During this period, workers can request green cards and secure permanent residency status if they desire. The current annual cap for the "regular" H1-B category is...
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- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
many research and policy questions on issues such as the appropriate quota for H1-B temporary visas, the possible crowding out of native students from the science and engineering fields, the brain-drain or brain-circulation effect on...
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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track...
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by Michael Blanding