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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. million-strong army of advocates for this principled approach to business in its "consultoras" (direct sales agents).