Britta Glennon

Britta Glennon is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, and previously received a M.P.P in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Cornell University.

Her research is at the intersection of innovation, immigration, and international business and has been featured in media outlets such as The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Bloomberg.

Research Interests:

• innovation, technological change, immigration, internationalization of R&D, multinational companies
  

Research

• Britta Glennon, Miguel Garza Casado, Julia Lane, David McQuown, Daniel Rich, Bruce A. Weinberg, The Effect of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from COVID-19.
  
• Britta Glennon, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dany Bahar, An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms’ Valuation.Abstract
  
• Lee G. Branstetter, Britta Glennon, J. Bradford Jensen (2019), The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D, Innovation Policy and the Economy, 19 (1), pp. 1-37.
  
• Lee G. Branstetter, Britta Glennon, J. Bradford Jensen (2019), The Rise of Global Innovation by US Multinationals Poses Risks and Opportunities, Peterson Institute Policy Brief, 19 (9).
  
• Britta Glennon (Working), How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program.
  
• Lee G. Branstetter, Jong-Rong Chen, Britta Glennon, Nikolas Zolas (Working), Does offshoring production harm innovation? Firm-level evidence from Taiwan.Abstract
  
• Lee G. Branstetter, Britta Glennon, J. Bradford Jensen (Working), Doing Frontier Innovation in Non-Traditional R&D Locations: Lessons from U.S. Multinational Firms.Abstract
  
• Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Matthew Ross, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Russell Funk, Funding and Group Structure: Unpacking the Black Box.
  
• Lee G. Branstetter, Britta Glennon, J. Bradford Jensen, “The Importance of doing our BIT: The Economic Potential of a U.S.- China Bilateral Investment Treaty”. In U.S.-China Cooperation in a Changing Global Economy, Peterson Institute Policy Brief 17-1, edited by Posen, A. and Ha, J. (2017)
  

Awards and Honors

• Finalist, INFORMS/Org Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2018
  

In the News

• Trump’s H-1B ban may have shaved $100 billion off America’s biggest firms, Yahoo Finance - 10/28/2020
  
• U.S Visa Curbs See Firms Hire More Workers in Overseas Units, Bloomberg - 09/24/2020
  
• The Case for Setting H-1Bs Free, The Wall Street Journal - 07/22/2020
  
• Restrictions On H-1B Visas Found To Push Jobs Out Of The U.S., Forbes - 02/10/2019
  

Knowledge @ Wharton

• How Foreign Work Visas Benefit the U.S. Economy, Knowledge @ Wharton - 5/4/2021
  
• Why Trump’s Visa Ban Cost Fortune 500 Firms $100 Billion, Knowledge @ Wharton - 12/8/2020