Zeke Hernandez
Zeke Hernandez
Zeke Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He publishes pioneering research in two broad areas. In the first, Zeke explores how immigration patterns affect investment choices, strategic decisions, and performance of firms in foreign markets. The linkage between immigration and economic growth in this first line of work has crucial implications for immigration policy. In the second area of research, he studies how firms strategically design corporate strategies. He studies firm strategy through their alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures to enhance their innovation and performance. The best academic journals in his field have widely published his work.
As a scholar, Zeke won an unprecedented three Emerging Scholar Awards by the leading academic associations in strategic and global management. In addition to these career recognitions, he’s received multiple awards for individual research papers.
Zeke Hernandez is also an award-winning teacher and orator. Poets & Quants selected him as a Best 40 Under 40 professor in the world. He’s one of a handful of the most highly rated professors at Wharton. Furthermore, he routinely receives teaching excellence awards for his courses on global and corporate strategy.
In addition to teaching MBA students, Zeke has extensive experience training leaders from renowned companies around the world. Past engagements include GE, Chase, AB Inbev, Securities Institute and Financial Markets Association, Audia, Ternium, Mastercard, BluSky, AECOM, Becton Dickinson, Google, OECD, Comcast, Novartis, Larsen and Toubro, and more.
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The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
Everyone thinks about immigration the wrong way because they’ve bought into one of two incorrect narratives. The villain narrative is that immigrants pose a threat—to our economy because they steal our jobs; our way of life because they change our culture; and to our safety and laws because of their criminality. The victim narrative tells us that immigrants are needy outsiders—the poor, huddled masses whom we must help at our own cost if necessary. In his acclaimed book, The Truth About Immigration, Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez draws from nearly 20 years of research to show that immigrants are neither villains nor victims.
He combines moving personal stories with rigorous research to offer an accessible, apolitical, and evidence-based look at how newcomers affect our local communities and our nation. You’ll learn about the overlooked impact of immigrants on investment and job creation; realize how much we take for granted the novel technologies, products, and businesses newcomers create; get the facts straight about perennial concerns like jobs, crime, and undocumented immigrants; and gain new perspectives on misunderstood issues such as the border, taxes, and assimilation.
Cutting through the fear and anxiety usually associated with immigration, Hernandez’s book turns fear into hope by proving a simple truth: immigrants are essential for economically prosperous and socially vibrant nations.
The Future of Work: How to Attract, Retain, and Manage Today’s Global-Mobile Talent
Talent is the most important resource for any organization these days. The forces of globalization, technology, and demography have made it so that your best people are likely to be scattered around the world and highly mobile. Most organizations are poorly equipped to attract, retain, and manage today’s global-mobile workforce. Wharton professor and world-renowned expert Zeke Hernandez will discuss (1) the unstoppable forces that make the workforce of the future global and mobile and (2) the tools organizations can use to attract, retain, and manage such a workforce.
Is Globalization Dead?
The death of globalization has been predicted for years. Pundits talk about it like a heavyweight boxer about to be knocked out by the next economic, political, or health crisis. But how much fact vs. hype is there in the punditry? Wharton professor and global business expert Zeke Hernandez will cut through the noise and discuss the future of globalization and global markets. The eye-opening conversation will help you see the world more clearly, paving the way for better business decisions about your company’s global market, product, and talent strategy.
Global Scaling: How to Take Your Business to Foreign Markets
How can you properly design and execute a successful global strategy? Global expansion is at once one of the most promising and perilous issues for firms. Selling your product, hiring talent, and innovating in foreign markets can be a powerful way for businesses to achieve the scale they need for long-term sustainable competitive advantage. But the myriad cultural, legal, and economic differences across countries cause most foreign expansion efforts to fail. Wharton professor and global business expert Zeke Hernandez provides a simple but powerful framework he has developed over nearly 20 years of research and teaching on this topic.
The Five Synergies: A New Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions
The word synergy is thrown around carelessly to justify mergers and acquisitions. But what does it really mean? And why do so many acquirers fail to achieve the expected value from deals on which they spend so much money? Wharton professor and corporate strategy expert Zeke Hernandez offers a simple but profound answer: Most companies don’t have a good framework to understand where synergies come from in the first place. Hernandez brings clarity to the matter through The Five Synergies framework, which he developed based on nearly two decades of research. This new framework will broaden and clarify your understanding of where value comes from and how it should be evaluated in corporate transactions.
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“Episode 581: What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration”
“Episode 580: The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System”
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Praise for The Truth About Immigration
“A highly readable, potentially influential contribution to the literature on immigration.”
— Kirkus, (Starred Review)“America needs more immigrants. That’s the message of this important new book by Zeke Hernandez. Cutting through the noise and misinformation that colors this debate, it marshals detailed data and moving personal stories to show how immigrants of all backgrounds and skill levels drive investment, innovation, and jobs; do essential work that Americans shy away from; create widespread economic gains; and make our cities and communities stronger and safer.”
— Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class“Debates about immigration are at the forefront of politics, but they’re rarely informed by data. Zeke Hernandez has spent his career studying how immigrants affect our lives and our livelihoods, and his research is filled with results that will surprise both liberals and conservatives. Wherever you stand ideologically, his book will challenge you to rethink some of your views and reconsider the potential in people from foreign countries.”
— Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking