Kellogg Thought Leadership Colloquium Explores Immigration By The Numbers

Immigration is a thorny public policy challenge for the United States, one that attracts special attention during an election year, when debate surrounding the subject often is driven by emotion rather than data. But Kellogg School students recently benefited from a reasoned, analytical assessment of U.S.-Mexico immigration dynamics, courtesy of David Besanko '82, the Alvin J. Huss Distinguished Professor of Management and Strategy. In a Feb. 1 Thought Leadership Colloquium at Wieboldt Hall, home of the Kellogg Part-Time MBA Program, Besanko marshaled demographic and economic specificity to bring some clarity to a topic that too easily becomes an ideological football.