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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career
Harvard Business Review August 24, 2012 If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today’s global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. One of the best ways to do this is to adopt an “immigrant mindset.” The immigrant mentality… Read More
Commentary: Immigrant talent leaks out of U.S.
Boston Business Journal August 27, 2012 American executives are beginning to make more noise about the U.S.’s bizarrely uncompetitive policy on immigration. They’re hoping to break the logjam of political paralysis on the issue, one on which your average Democrat and Republican can agree: We’re letting too much immigrant… Read More
An eclectic consensus for immigration
Philadelphia Enquirer August 27, 2012 Just what is being cooked up by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Rupert Murdoch, the world’s most successful multimedia mogul; and Bill Daley, the Chicago businessman who once sat at the right hand of power as President Obama’s chief of staff? This unlikely trio… Read More
Candidates, here’s how to fix immigration
CNN August 27, 2012 Dear Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, As much as America is looking forward to 10 more weeks of soothing campaign rhetoric (fingernails on the blackboard of America’s psyche), I write to urge you to offer the nation a compelling vision for a common-sense immigration process. Read More
A GOP Opportunity on Immigration
The Wall Street Journal August 26, 2012 Americans are facing the most difficult economic headwinds in a generation. Future economic growth will depend in large part on our ability to maintain an edge in human capital. This means we must focus on immigration as a key economic driver rather… Read More
Immigration: Who The U.S. Lets In, And Why
NPR August 27, 2012 America’s economy would be better off if the U.S. admitted more highly skilled workers, James Surowiecki recently argued in the New Yorker. That got us thinking: How does the U.S. compare to the rest of the developed world when it comes to immigration policy? The… Read More
Tech to the rescue STEM industries can lead the charge in reviving Maryland’s economy
The Baltimore Sun August 27, 2012 The increasingly hyperbolic diatribes in the presidential campaigns have drowned out any focus on the single most important issue on Maryland voters’ minds: jobs. It’s time to stop the political attacks and put forward ideas to attack the economy’s core problems. To help,… Read More
Immigration rules expel the people we need the most
OregonLive August 26, 2012 “I wasn’t surprised the topic came up,” commented Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., about one major theme at a high-tech innovation forum in Portland last Tuesday. “I guess I was surprised it was such a prevalent part of the conversation.” In fact, for many of the… Read More
From Brain Drain To Brain Flow: The New Economy Of Innovation Turbulence
Eurasia Review August 23, 2012 At one time in the recent past, leaders in developing countries and in international organizations decried the “brain drain” that led the best and brightest in what we used to call the “third world” to emigrate to the West to take advantage of superior… Read More
Congress Must Reform Immigration Laws That Send Top STEM Graduates to China
Christian Science Monitor August 22, 2012 Jonas Korlach left Cornell with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, a patent on technology that effectively reads the entire human genome, and an idea that spawned a company now employing 285 people and generating more than $30 million in revenue per year. Yet because… Read More
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