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Dear All, The February instalment of the Surrey-Sussex seminar series will feature Dr. Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Zeke will present a very recent paper titled “Global Palette: The Impact of Immigrant Talent on Multinational Product Strategy”. Abstract: We examine how human capital at an MNC’s headquarters affects its foreign product expansion choices. We theorize that immigrant workers hired at HQ are channels of country-specific knowledge and connections that facilitate three types of product-related decisions in their home country markets: launching new products, updating existing products, and adapting products to local conditions. Drawing on two remarkably fine-grained datasets, we examine 74,906 product launches by 340 US-based multinationals in the consumer-packaged goods industry in 83 foreign markets during 2009-2019, matched to 7,876 skilled immigrant hires (on H-1B visas) by these firms over the same period. The more immigrants from a given country a firm hires in the US, the more its subsequent products in that country exhibit locally-specific features. Hiring immigrants also leads to more frequent updates of pre-existing products, especially in culturally distant markets relative to the US. Immigrants also help firms launch more new products in geographically distant countries after they are hired. These associations are stronger for more culturally specific products (i.e., food and beverages vs. household and personal care) and hold only when immigrants occupy product-related roles (e.g., R&D, marketing, management) but not when they have non-product-related roles (e.g. accounting). Our study provides granular insights on the role of human capital across critical phases of global product strategy: new product development, local adaptation capability, and ongoing product management. Bio: Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at Wharton. His research focuses on two areas: 1. analysing the impact of immigration on firm strategies and macroeconomic outcomes; and 2. examining the role of corporate strategies such as alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures to enhance their innovation and performance. His papers have been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal. In addition, he has won numerous awards for individual research achievements (i.e., Emerging Scholar Award by the Strategic Management Society, and the Academy of Management via the STR and IM Divisions), teaching achievements (i.e., Poets & Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 professor) and Best Paper awards by various professional organizations (i.e., AIB, SMS, and AOM). Date/Time: FEBRUARY 7, 15:00-16:30 (UK) Venue: ZOOM webinar If you would like to join, please send me an email ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) from your institutional account. Thank you. Best wishes, Sorin Prof. Sorin Krammer Professor of Strategy and International Business Surrey Business School<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/business-school> | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | University of Surrey<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/faculty-arts-social-sciences> +44 (0) 1483 682126 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [A logo for a university Description automatically generated] We are ranked 9th in the UK and 67th in the world for Business and Economics in the THE World University Rankings 2023<https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/subject-ranking/business-and-economics#!/page/0/length/25/locations/GBR/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats>. Sustainability Fellow The Institute for Sustainability<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/institute-sustainability/> | University of Surrey [signature_2463807159] [A close-up of a logo Description automatically generated] Recent publications: Weaponizing globalization: A review of H. Farrell and A. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America weaponized the world economy”. Journal of International Business Policy. forthcoming. No Planet B Available! A Review of The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions by Greta Thunberg. Journal of Business Ethics. forthcoming. link<https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05594-8> Is there a glitch in the Matrix? Artificial Intelligence and Management Education. Management Learning. forthcoming link<https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076231217667>. Resilience to the pandemic: The role of female management, multi-unit structure, and business model innovation. Journal of Business Research. forthcoming. link<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114428> From trauma to entertainment: An examination of Netflix’s “Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer story” series. Business Ethics Quarterly. forthcoming. link<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-ethics-quarterly/article/from-trauma-to-entertainment-an-examination-of-netflixs-dahmermonster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-series/3E34F5012E9B21B0F88FF215DF733C2A> Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. Journal of International Business Policy. forthcoming. link<https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-023-00173-0> Entrenchment, Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies. Academy of Management Learning and Education, forthcoming. link<https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2023.0095> An ivory tower of Babel? The impact of size and diversity of teams on research performance in Business Schools, Academy of Management Learning and Education, forthcoming. link<https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2021.0063>. Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms, Journal of International Business Studies, 2023. link<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41267-022-00535-5>. Legal distance and entrepreneurial orientation of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from Southeast Asia, Journal of World Business, 2022. link.<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101382> Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in Sub‐Saharan Africa, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2022. link<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpim.12623>. Navigating the New Normal: Which firms have adapted better to the COVID-19 disruption? Technovation, 2022. link<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102368>. 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