The Six Minute Book Summary of Immigrant, Inc. by Richard T. Herman And Robert L. Smith

Executive Summary

Immigrant, Inc. is a book by Richard T. Herman and Robert L. Smith.  This informative book explains how immigrants are now America’s competitive advantage in a global economy and warns how we are quickly losing this advantage.  Immigrants have had an extremely remarkable success in the New Economy.  Their companies are icons of the era which include: Google, Intel, Yahoo, Hotmail, Sun Microsystems, YouTube, and Ebay.  Immigrants are leading Americans in the race to opening new businesses.  Today’s immigrants are almost twice as likely as non-immigrants to launch a business, to ear an advanced degree, to invent something, and to be awarded a U.S. patent.  This has a large amount to do with their culture.  This culture of entrepreneurship strives from education, thrift, family loyalty, and ambition.  Immigrants will do whatever to succeed no matter the discrimination or the failure.  This discrimination from Americans actually gives them the motivation to work for themselves. 

The authors use many examples about how immigrants help from these huge and successful companies.  Te-Ming Chiang, an immigrant from Taiwan, and Ric Fulop, an immigrant from Venezuela, founded the battery-maker A123 that powers Black & Decker’s power tools.  Fulop said, “I think an important part of being an immigrant is desperation.  Failure is not an option.  You’ve landed here, you’re alone, and you have to make a new life for yourself.” Levis Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented, as the book calls it, “the ultimate symbol of American freedom: blue jeans.”  Sergey Brin, a Russian refugee, who made accessible the world’s knowledge through an Internet search engine called Google.  Pierre Omidyar, the founder of EBay, is an immigrant from France.  Andrew Grove, a founder of Intel, emigrated from Taiwan, and became the co-founder of Yahoo.  Monte Ahuja, an Indian immigrant is among the culture that is seen as the brightest of all the other immigrant cultures.  In 2007, the median household income for Americans born in India was ,195, the highest of any identifiable group, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  Ahuja is credited with being the founder of Transtar Industries Inc., the largest seller of transmission parts in the world.  Farouk Shami, came to America from Ramallah and founded ammonia-free shampoos, hair dyes, and nail polish.  He also teamed up with NASA to invent the world’s most popular flat-iron, the CHI.  Shami says, “This country gave me the opportunity perhaps no other country would have given me.  I want to give something back.  I want to do my part.” And also Quy “Charlie” Ton, an immigrant from Vietnam who is known for his 1,000 Regal Nail salons and for getting Wal-Mart to actually put his salon in their stores worldwide. Vietnamese salon owners can mostly agree and say the nail trade worked for them because it requires little training, little investment, and limited English skills.  By 2008, Vietnamese Americans were running 80 percent of the nail salons in California and 44 percent nationwide.

In 2005, immigrant-founded companies were generating billion in sales and employing 450,000 people.  It has also been found that 530 out of every 100,000 immigrant Americans start a business each month, compared to 280 out of every 100,00 native-born Americans.  In 2009, 40 percent of the inventors inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame were immigrants.  The reason immigrants excel more, as opposed to non-immigrants is because they posse better traits to be successful.  They are bold and energetic people, highly skilled, and prone to work under pressure.  They also possess traits common in their culture such as being well-traveled and speaking more than one language.  As mathematician James York observed, “The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”  Even though immigrants are being the force that allows America to grow, only a certain number of immigrants and refugees are allowed to come to America legally.  The United States offers a smidge more than 1 million immigrants a year and a much smaller amount of refugees. In 2009, the quota was set at 80,000 people. Unfortunately an estimated 50,000 immigrants have left the U.S. in the last 20 years and returned to India and China, and it is expected that an additional 100,000 will leave in the next few years.  This is because America does not and cannot offer enough visas.  It is only allowed to issue 1 million green cards per year and only 9 percent are reserved for high skilled immigrants—the people who are driving the New Economy. In April 2009, China announced it would begin offering bonuses to executives and academics who came back to help the nation build its New Economy.  America loses more than innovation if newly minted graduates go elsewhere; it loses tax dollars. 

The Ten Things Managers Need to Know from Immigrant, Inc. 

Immigrants have traits that promote entrepreneurship; these traits are social cohesiveness and their motivation from discrimination because of their inability to speak English fluently.  Even though an employee cannot speak perfect English, managers should realize that immigrants are extremely hard workers.  They take the negatives of what life hands them and uses them as motivation to excel. 

The Indian immigrant is able to speak and write English and also comes from a culture that values education.  Mangers should take note of this when an Indian applies for a job.  Because they come from a culture that values education, they will mostly likely be smarter than the average and thus, able to pick up on things at work more quickly. 

Immigrants have the mentality to succeed because they have nothing to lose.  They have to the risk to come to America to succeed, and they will keep trying until they accomplish this goal.  Managers should take note of how determined immigrants are and how if hired, will do the work to the complete best of their ability. 

 Many Immigrants feel like they owe America for giving them such a great opportunity to get out of their country and make something big of themselves.  Managers should hire these immigrants because they will give a good days work because they are thankful that America has given them a road out of their country.

Immigrants are bold and energetic, highly skilled, prone to optimism, and have an ability to work well under pressure. Being able to hire people who are able to work under pressure can be an extreme competitive advantage for a company.  It is hard to find people who are able to do this, so by hiring people who can, one’s company’s profits are sure to rise. 

Immigrants have proven to be the cause of making a city safer, bigger, and more productive.  If company’s move their firms to places that are have a high number of immigrants, it will most likely succeed.  Immigrants are the ones spending money and lots of it. 

Immigrants clearly and more readily identify the unique business conditions and opportunities that inner cities offer and are able to capitalize upon them.  Companies should hire immigrant manager.  Because of this characteristic, they would be able to make a company soar. 

In 2008 623,000 international studies were studying, researching, and contributing over .5 billion to the U.S. economy.  This also shows managers what kind of customers they should attract.  If immigrants are spending this much money, companies should target them and persuade them to spend their money on their firm. 

Nearly 90 percent of immigrants hold master’s or doctorate degrees.  This just shows how smart and into education immigrants are.  If managers hire them, their company is sure to excel.

The success traits of immigrants include: a keen sense of adventure, a reverence for education, love and respect for family, an eagerness to collaborate, a tolerance for risk and failure, passion, and a tendency to dream.  If managers look not only to immigrants for these traits, but every applicant, it will benefit their business.  Successful people yield successful businesses. 

Full Summary of Immigrant, Inc.

A Mighty New Idea. Yet-Ming Chiang age 42, came from Taiwan, was a career scientist who affectionately applied himself to his research, pioneering work in ceramics, and lately renewable energy, the emerging clean technology that could replace fossil fuels.  While experimenting with very small lithium battery materials, he had discovered a way to extract double the power from conventional battery cells.  He envisioned that he would one day take this idea to private industry, leave Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was working, and go into the battery business.  Rica Fulop, a college drop-out from Venezuela, was a serial entrepreneur.  He started his first computer company in Caracas at age 16.  He started four more businesses that soared and then crashed.  Despite all of this, he was extremely arrogant and introduced himself to Chiang as one of Red Herring magazine’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs.  Fulop also envisioned a battery company, one that would power the next generation of electric cars and eventually power America.  He was prepared to pitch the idea to venture capitalists, investors who bankroll promising start-up companies, typically in exchange for a share of ownership.  After Chiang and Fulop met, they impressed a key catalyst, Gururaj Deshpande.  Desh came from India in 1973 with an engineering degree and “parlayed” ideas on fiber optics into companies that made him one of the richest men on the globe.  At the time when he met Chiang and Fulop he was chairman of Sycamore Networks and a venture capitalist.  In the late 2001, the two immigrants, Chiang and Fulop, teamed up with Bart Riley, an American born engineer and an old friend of Chiang’s, to found A123Systems.  By early 2009 A123 batteries were powering Black & Decker’s pro-model power tools.  The company attracted more than 0 million from investors and was employing 1,800 people on three continents.  Fulop was A123’s marketing manager and envisioned manufacturing plants in Michigan employing thousands of workers putting out 200,000 car batteries a year.  He was in quest of nearly billion in new investment.  However, A123Systems was one of several companies worldwide vying to create the next essential power source.  Deshpande knew the risk but also knew his team would not give up.  “They were entrepreneurs, but more than that they were immigrant entrepreneurs.  The most remarkable business people of the era.” Immigrants are playing dominant roles as innovators and job creators.  They created more than half the companies to rise in California’s Silicon Valley, “the heart of the high-technology industry”, between 1995, 2005.  Researchers have found that immigrants are more likely to start a business than non-immigrants and strive to be their own boss.  It is also said that a college-educated immigrant today is twice as likely to obtain a U.S. patent as a college-educated non-immigrant.  Immigrants are often more educated in math and science.  They are daring people who leave home and resilient enough to endure the hardships of starting over in a new culture.

The Mounting Evidence. Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian immigrant who fostered two successful software companies in North Carolina’s Research Triangle.  He grew up in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia before his father moved him to New York City in 1980 at age 23.  He got a degree in computing studies from Canberra University in Australia and a master’s in business administration from New York University.  In 1990, he becomes an executive vice president and chief technology officer for Seer Technologies, and helped them grow into a publicly tragedy company worth more than 0 million.  In 1997 he launched Relativity Technologies, Inc., with an idea to link old and new technologies.  Fortune magazine labeled Relativity one of the 25 coolest companies in the world.  In 2005 he became a professor at Duke University.  A year later he put a team of engineering students and graduate assistants to work and identified all the small and mid-sized technology engineering companies that had opened in the U.S. from 1995-2005.  They found that across America, immigrants helped to start 25 percent of the new technology and engineering companies of the past ten years.  During this time immigrants helped to launch 39 percent of new high-tech companies in California, 38 percent in New Jersey, and 29 percent in Massachusetts.  These immigrant-founded companies were generating billion in sales and employing 450,000 people.  Wadhwa’s study concluded, “Skilled immigrants are one of our greatest advantages.”  Out of the immigrant study, 96 percent of the founders held bachelor’s degrees, and 74 percent held graduate or post-graduate degrees.  Their degree and their expertise were concentrate in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.  The authoritative report found that immigrants have become almost twice as likely as native-born Americans to start their own business.  I found that 530 out of every 100,000 immigrant Americans start a business each month, compared to 280 out of every 100,00 native-born Americans.  One reason immigrant’s start their own businesses is because of frustration born from discrimination is a powerful motivator to become one’s own boss.  Immigrant inventiveness has enabled America to lead to transform the world.  Levis Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented blue jeans, Nikola Tesa, Serbian immigrant, gave us the radio and electrical marvels, and Sergey Brin, a Russian refugee, gave us the world’s knowledge through an Internet search engine called Google.

A Land of Opportunity, Still. Monte Ahujan immigrant from India, is the founder and chief executive of Transtar Industries Inc., the largest seller of transmission parts in the world, a company active in about 70 countries in 2009.  His first job was at a Cleveland car parts supplier called Lemoco Industries.  The hiring manager felt Ahuja was not qualified, but saw how persistent he was and gave him the job on a temporary basis.  He later became an expert on car parts.  That day Ahuja went to the library and read all about transmissions. Research finds that people of Indian descent are the most educated ethnic group in America.  By 2008, Transtar was the largest supplier of transmission repair parts in the world.  Nearly 75 percent of Asian Indians older than 24 year of age hold a four-year college degree, which dwarfs the national average of 28 percent.  In 2007, the median household income for Americans born in India was ,195.  People born in India started 22 percent of the immigrant-founded companies, far more than any other ethnic group.  The Indian advantage is they speak and write English and also, they come from a culture that values education.  Ahuja stated that discrimination propelled him to start his own company and to overachieve. 

Restless Dreamers. Carmen Castillo launched Superior Design International from her one-bedroom apartment.  By early 2009, it turned to one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in America and one of the largest woman-owned businesses in the world.  Her company revenues exceeded 0 million a year.  Castillo said she became successful because she had nothing to lose.  She thought, “If I fail, I’ll just go back to Spain.”  Generoso Bahena launched his fourth successful Chicago restaurant. Geno started cooking from an early age.  He left home for America at only 16 years old to attend St. Augustine College and studied the culinary arts.  Food critics call him a “master of the moles,” the complex sauces that complement many traditional Mexican dishes.  Shami, a Palestinian immigrant, gave the trade ammonia-free hair dyes, environmentally friendly blow dryers, and space-age curling irons.  He also collaborated with NASA scientists to create the CHI, an iron that uses ceramic technology to straighten hair.  His company also introduced a blow dryer that emitted considerably less electromagnetic field.  All of these products made the trade safer and more effective.  Shami said his strategy was motivated by rising shipping costs and concerns over quality control, especially after Chinese-made tools were found laced with lead-based plants.  Shami says, “This country gave me the opportunity perhaps no other country would have given me.  I want to give something back.  I want to do my part.”

Earth’s Best and Brightest. Xunming Deng and Liwei Xu, immigrants for China, designed a new means of capturing sunlight.  His lightweight, flexible solar modules offered greater versatility then conventional glass solar panels, which are heavy and bulky and often require reinforcing a roof.  These thin-film solar sheets could be rolled out across rooftops like hallway runners, allowing a factory or retail center below to generate clean electricity from the sun.  In April 2008, Xunlight announced it had received a million investment from a group of venture capitalist to start “First Solar.” In 2006, they changed the company name to Xunlight, reflecting a sharpened focus on transforming sunlight into electricity.  While making up about 15 percent of the American workforce, immigrants represent 50 percent of the motion’s doctors, 17 percent of the nation’s scientists and engineers.  Among the scientists and engineers with doctorate degrees, fully one-half are immigrants.  In 2009, 40 percent of the inventors inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame were immigrants.  Adedeji Adefuye, a Nigerian born doctor, came to Chicago for advanced training and fell in love with America.  He became the director of the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute at Chicago State University.  Xunming said, “And you do not give up hope.  That green card might take five years to come.  You do not give up hope.” 

Cowboys of a New Frontier. Ric Dulop, Yet-Mian Chiang, Bart Riley, and Gururaj Deshpande, requested .8 billion to build battery cell factories in America’s Midwest.  A123Systems exhibits most of the traditional traits of entrepreneurship.  They are bold and energetic people, highly skilled, and prone to work under pressure.  They also possess traits common in their culture such as being well-traveled and speaking more than one language. As mathematician James York observed, “The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”  In 2009, A123System’s high energy, lithium-ion batteries powered Black & Decker’s DeWalt line of cordless power tools.  They stated airplane engines and Propelled Hybrid buses.  Fulop is credited with pioneering the broadband Internet industry before charging into renewable energy.  He started his first company at age 16 and soon it was earning nearly million a year.  He dropped out of college and lost tens of millions of dollars with Chinook Communications and Broadband2Wireless, promising companies that soared and crashed.  Fulop said, “I think an important part of being an immigrant is desperation.  Failure is not an option.  You’ve landed here, you’re alone, and you have to make a new life for yourself.” He also said that the reason he became an entrepreneur is because he feared no one would hire him in Boston.  Yet-Ming Chiang arrived in America where he was six.  At age 18 he attended MIT, considered by many to be the most productive university in the world, a beehive of entrepreneurism and innovation.  Chiang met Bart Riley in college.  Riley is an engineer with a Cornell University doctorate and over 40 patents.  Chiang, the professor with key technology; Riley, the experienced engineer; and Fulop, the money-raiser and start-up wizard made up A123Systems.  Deshpande later joined ranks with the founder of A123 and also agreed to invest in their battery quest and help them to find other backers.  He helped them get an attractive group of investors including:  Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, and Qualcomm. “Entrepreneurship is always about changing the game,” Deshpande said. “The magnitude of the change depends on where you are.”  A124’s lithium-ion battery generated 10 times the power if a conventional battery, ran cool and constant, and recharged quickly.  Unfortunately, in late 2008, General Motors delivered a blow when it disclosed it had instead decided to choose a Korean company to build battery cells for its plug-hybrid, the Chevrolet Volt.  In April 2009, Chrysler had chosen them to power its next generation of electric cars.  A123’s planned to build the first lithium-ion battery cell plants in North America, in southeastern Michigan, the heart of the American auto industry. These batteries would propel hybrid Jeep Wrangles and Chrysler vans. 

Desperate Achievers: Prequel to Google. Eugenia Brin, a refugee who escaped from the Soviet Union, was hired by NASA as a research scientist, and specialized in satellite weather forecasting.  Her son Sergey Brin was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.  He became a company advisor and early investor in Google, the company who has the one of the highest amounts of immigrants working for them.  The United Nations defines a refugee as someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence and who cannot sagely return.  The United States offers a smidge more than 1 million immigrants a year and a much smaller amount of refugees. In 2009, the quota was set at 80,000 people. High-achieving refugees include Albert Einstein, Madeleine Albright, George Soros, and Thomas Lantos.  They are some of the most ambitious entrepreneurs of the New Economy.  Quy “Charles” Ton was 14 years old when his mother told him it was time to leave and go the United States.  He later studied chemical engineering at Louisiana State University and by late 2008, became a millionaire for his salon, Regal Nails.  There are more than 1,000 locations spread across America.  His factories and warehouses were located in Baton Rouge, where Ton manufacture and supplied almost everything.  Vietnamese salon owners can mostly agree and say the nail trade worked for them because it requires little training, little investment, and limited English skills.  By 2008, Vietnamese Americans were running 80 percent of the nail salons in California and 44 percent nationwide.  Another immigrant in this industry to make it big was Thuong Nguyen, who convinced Wal-Mart to test in-store salons in a few locations.  Now, almost all of his franchises are owned by fellow Vietnamese immigrants. 

Improving Solutions. In January 2008, Michael Nutter became a leader of America’s sixth largest city that was facing financial crisis, an extremely high murder rate, and a shrinking and anxious middle class.  He swore to make the city safer, bigger, and more productive.  “It’s very important that the world knows that Philadelphia is an immigrant-friendly city,” Nutter told the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. “The vast majority of new immigrants have demonstrated that they are tremendously involved in the community, quite entrepreneurial, actively engaged in the neighborhoods, paying attention to what is going on with their children, and a great opportunity to increase population.”  This drew immigrants from all over the world.  The largest group of immigrants came from Asia.  Philadelphia was one of the first cities who came up with the new economic strategy if an immigrant-driven revival.  Immigrants also helped to properly cities like Boston, Atlanta, Toronto, and Seattle into international cities. A report by the President’s Commission on Immigration and Naturalization reads,” The richest regions are those with the highest proportion of immigrants.  Their industry, their skills, and their expertise were major factors in the economic development that made these regions prosperous ones.” Mayor Albert Jurczynski discovered Guyanese Americans in high-priced apartments in Queens, New York.  He put them all on buses and drove them to another town three and a half hours away to the struggling city of Schenectady and gave them a tour.  His proposition sold them: the Guyanese moved to this inner-city, raised its property value and between 2003 and 2008, caused the median home price climbed by 35 percent to 8,200.  Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco Ottaviano examined the effect of immigrant labor on economies in America’s 100 largest cities from 1970 to 2003.  From their studies they found that high-immigrant cities enjoyed more robust economies.  They also found that immigrants boost home values.  Time after time they found that immigrants were catalysts to economic growth.  Porter says, “Immigrants clearly and more readily identify the unique business conditions and opportunities that inner cities offer and are able to capitalize upon them.  There is a direct correlation between immigrant populations and job growth in inner cities.”

The Stimulus we Need.  In 2008, about 12 million people were living illegally in America, with nearly two-thirds of them from Mexico.  In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences warned that America’s lead in science and technology was “eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength.”  In 2008, 623,000 international students were studying, researching, and spending money.  These students and their dependents contributed to over .5 billion to the U.S. economy.  Unfortunately an estimated 50,000 immigrants have left the U.S. in the last 20 years and returned to India and China, and it is expected that an additional 100,000 will leave in the next few years.  This is because America does not and cannot offer enough visas.  It is only allowed to issue 1 million green cards per year and only 9 percent are reserved for high skilled immigrants—the people who are driving the New Economy.  America’s population now exceeds 300 million.  In April 2009, China announced it would begin offering bonuses to executives and academics who came back to help the nation build its New Economy.  America loses more than innovation if newly minted graduates go elsewhere; it loses tax dollars. 

Thinking like an Immigrant.  America stared up from the depths of recession in mid-2009, hoping the worst was over.  Beginning in December 2007, housing values plunged, banks teetered, and employers cut pay and slashed jobs which turned into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.  John F. Kennedy wrote about the remarkable resiliency of immigrants and their unshakable belief in the American ideal.  In his book, A Nation of Immigrants, he stated, “Immigration is by definition a gesture of faith in a social mobility.  It is the expression in action of a positive belief in the possibility of a better life.  It has thus contributed greatly to developing the spirit of personal betterment in American society and to strengthening the national confidence in change and the future.”  The authors of this book interviewed tons of successful immigrant entrepreneurs and found that most of them posses these success traits:

A keen sense of adventure

A reverence for education

Love and respect for family

An eagerness to collaborate

A tolerance for risk and failure

Passion, often borne of desperation

A tendency to dream. 

Personal Insights

The authors are one of the most brilliant people around because they were able to find the many reasons of why entrepreneurs are becoming the most successful people in America.  They did plenty of research and every piece of information they give is backed by actual facts, research, and studies.  If everyone in America read this book, including politics, I believe that the economy would change.  If Americans capitalized on how the immigrants live and tried to live their life accordingly, many more Americans would probably become more successful.  The authors believe also that immigrants are the ones who will bring America out of its current recession.  They believe this because right now they are at the forefront of spenders.  They are at the forefront of creating new businesses which in turn creates new jobs.  Even in this recession they are pulling out and are still determined to be successful no matter what.  After doing all their research, they comprised a list of seven traits that successful immigrants have in common.  I agree completely with this list and will used to help me when I become an entrepreneur in the future. 

Bibliography

            Editorial Reviews. Retrieved April 10, 2010, from Amazon’s Editorial Reviews Website: http://www.amazon.com/Immigrant-Inc-Entrepreneurs-Driving-American/dp/0470455713.

            Herman, Richard T. & Smith, Robert L. (2010). Immigrant,Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

            Jay Robb. Jay Robb Reviews Business Books. Retrieved April 10, 2010, from Jay Robb’s Reviews Website: jayrobb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/02/book-review-immigrant-inc-why-welcoming-newcomers-is-the-right-and-smart-thing-to-do.html.

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Biography

David C. Wyld (dwyld.kwu@gmail.com) is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, and executive educator. His blog, Wyld About Business, can be viewed at http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/. He also serves as the Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/), a hub of research and news in the expanding world of competitive bidding. Dr. Wyld also maintains compilations of works he has helped his students to turn into editorially-reviewed publications at the following sites:

Management Concepts (http://toptenmanagement.blogspot.com/)

Book Reviews (http://wyld-about-books.blogspot.com/) and

Travel and International Foods (http://wyld-about-food.blogspot.com/).                

The Complete Marriage Green Card Kit Review – Get Your Marriage Green Card Today Without the Risk of Denial

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