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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Tom Coburn (R-OK), writing on health-care reform (Huffington Post, April 27, 2009). “True reform will require both moving toward universal insurance coverage and restructuring the care delivery system. These...
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- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
deeds well as compared to performing bad deeds poorly. Moreover, the results illuminate how the characteristics of an unethical behavior can interact to influence the emulation and diffusion of that behavior. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
1985 USDA approves the sale of the first genetically altered organism 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act prohibits employers with more than three employees from discriminating against anyone (except...
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- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S....
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- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
cities in America.” Choudhury also notes that the country must address issues in its immigration system, which has already caused the country lose talent to Canada. “The new administration should stop this outflux of talent,” says...
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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Home Equity Finance and Entrepreneurial Performance—Evidence from a Mortgage Reform By: Jensen, Thais Laerkholm, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study how a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55160 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract— How does the appearance of a new...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy (Harvard University Press). To the rescue, McCraw recounts, came two unheralded immigrants, Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, later regarded by most experts as the two greatest US...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
economic growth and competitiveness—including reforming the corporate tax code, easing immigration for high-skilled immigrants, investing in infrastructure, and aggressively addressing abuses in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Kwame Owusu-Kesse
By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs affect firms' responses to policy changes. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
of perhaps $90 trillion. One side argues that we can't raise revenues, while the other asserts we can't cut entitlements. Both sides are wrong. Entitlement costs, especially health care, will eat us alive. Without real reform of...
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by Staff
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
very crude system, a system that doesn’t differentiate very well across the potential talent of individuals. Most of the reforms that I talk about in the book are about ways of, regardless of whether you think View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and...
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Dina Gerdeman