What is the impact of immigration on U.S.-born workers?

Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor. He publishes pioneering research in two broad areas. In the first, he explores how immigration affects the investment choices, growth, and performance of firms. In the second, he studies how firms design corporate strategies through alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures to enhance their innovation and performance. Zeke’s papers have been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal. 

A renowned expert on the topic of immigration, Zeke is the author of The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers. Providing clarity on one of the most important but misunderstood topics of our time, the book has received glowing coverage in outlets such as The Economist, Freakonomics Radio, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Forbes, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and more.

Zeke has won emerging scholar awards from the three major academic associations in his field: the Strategic Management Society, the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management and the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. In addition to these career recognitions, he’s received multiple awards for individual research papers.

Zeke is a sought after speaker and one of the highest rated teachers at Wharton. He consistently wins teaching excellence awards and has been recognized by Poets & Quants as a Best 40 Under 40 professor in the world. He trains MBA students and corporate executives on issues related to global strategy, corporate strategy, and global talent management. He also speaks to audiences from all walks of life on immigration, demographic change, and economic growth.

Ph.D. (The American University) – Professor of Economics and Program Chair:  Feminist political economy, labor and international trade, econometrics.

Genova Burns Partner Patrick W. McGovern represents management in labor, employment, employee benefits and immigration matters, advising on compliance regarding all aspects of employer-employee relationships, including union-free and union avoidance strategies; drug testing policies; wage and hour laws and immigration law as well as labor and employment and benefits issues that arise during mergers, acquisitions, facility closings, business expansion, workforce reductions and merger integrations.
Mr. McGovern represents management in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, including proceedings involving representation, decertification, unit clarification and unfair labor practices as well as labor arbitrations, collective bargaining and project labor agreement negotiations. He appears in state and federal court and before regulatory agencies in matters arising under fair employment practices laws, labor laws, wage and hour laws and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

Before joining the firm, Mr. McGovern was in-house counsel at Allied Corp., AlliedSignal Inc. and Honeywell International Inc. He was at Honeywell for 20 years where one of his senior level posts was Associate General Counsel-Human Resources, where he specialized in labor and employment matters. Prior to this, Mr. McGovern was an attorney in the Manhattan office of Kelley, Drye & Warren, an international law firm.

Mr. McGovern has written numerous articles including: “Banks Must Comply with New Affirmative Action Rules,” New Jersey Banker, Summer 2014; “Expect No Change in OFCCP’s Aggressive Agenda Despite Election Year,” New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, Volume 34, No. 2, December 2012; “Rigorous Changes Coming Down the Pipeline for Federal Contractors,” Client Alert, October 2012; “Understand GINA’s New Prohibitions on Misuse of Genetic Info,” HR Specialist, February 2010; “N.J. Supreme Court: Strikers May Be Entitled to Unemployment,” HR Specialist, April 2009 ;“New Jersey Cracks Down on Employers that Misclassify Employees,” HR Specialist, October 2007; and “New Jersey Law on Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace,” Institute of Business Law.

His presentations included: “Affordable Care Act in a Time of Transition,” New Jersey League of Municipalities 2016 Annual Convention, November 17, 2016; “A Management Perspective on the Supreme Court Decision in Penn Plaza v. Pyett,” New Jersey Labor and Employment Relations Association, December 10, 2012; “Where the FMLA, the FLA, the ADA and the NLRA Interact,” Client Briefing, May 15, 2012; “All aTwitter About Social Media,” American Arbitration Association University, April 3, 2012; “Avoiding the Wage-and-Hour Trap and Surviving a Wage-Hour Audit…and Avoiding Something Worse,” New Jersey Business & Industry Association, February 24, 2012; “The Proposed U.S. Department of Labor Rule to Modify the Definition of ‘Persuader Activities’ under the Labor Management Relations Disclosure Act,” New York Labor and Employment Relations Association, October 19, 2011; “Preempting a Corporate Campaign At Your Hospital,” Presentation to Hospital Law Institute, Hospital and Health Systems and Labor and Employment Practice Groups, February 14, 2008; and “Labor and Employment Law Issues Arising from Use of Independent Contractors,” New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section, 2008.

Kyle Sullender is Director of Economic Policy Research for the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), the nation’s largest state-level business association whose member companies collectively employ 1 million people.

Sullender also serves as the Executive Director of Focus NJ, an independent research nonprofit conducting timely, innovative, nonpartisan economic and workforce research to support sound public policy in New Jersey.

Prior to joining NJBIA, Sullender supported the Camden County Board of Commissioners, coordinating external affairs and media relations. Sullender earned his Master of Public Policy in 2019 from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. He also graduated summa cum laude from Rowan University in 2017 with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and philosophy.

Sullender was a Class of 2019 Graduate Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and is an active member of the Eagleton Alumni Committee.

Michele N. Siekerka, Esq., President and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, leads the nation’s largest, most influential employers’ organization, advocating on behalf of New Jersey’s large and small businesses for policies that will make New Jersey more affordable and regionally competitive.

Being known as a collaborative leader, Siekerka is leading an NJBIA established coalition (New Jersey Business Coalition) comprised of more than 100 business and nonprofit associations across the state to tackle the tough economic and business challenges our state is facing during COVID 19.

Well versed on the ‘boots on the ground” issues affecting our state’s business community, Michele is often the “go to” resource for media and is sought after to share her expertise in public forums across the state.