Tearing Down The Wall: How Stanford Is Helping To Counter The Anti-Hispanic Business Narrative

It’s a typically weather-perfect Wednesday at the Stanford Business School campus, but the CEMEX auditorium is filling with lots on unfamiliar faces. The occasion:  the release of a long-awaited research report by the Stanford Latinos Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), authored by SLEI’s executive director Remy Arteaga. The headline: US Latinos are creating businesses faster than any other ethnic group (roughly 12% of all new starts). Said Doug Rivers, the lead researcher for the study:

Contrary to what you may have heard, Latinos have not been a drag on the economy. It’s quite the opposite

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