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- January 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
National Public Broadcasting
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Bob Williams, the CEO of National Public Broadcasting (NPB), was considering an unsolicited offer to purchase the company in the early spring of 2006. The company was a media underwriting representative for public television and radio stations throughout the United...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Management;
Ownership;
Advertising Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "National Public Broadcasting." Harvard Business School Case 211-058, January 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 2011
- Chapter
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs...
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Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship." Chap. 8 in Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich, 88–103. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. (NBER WP 15498, HBS WP 10-013.)
- 2011
- Foreword
Foreword
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Foreword." Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees Who Have Shaped Modern China, edited by Wenxian Zhang, Huiyao Wang, and Ilan Alon, 13–15. Bingley, England: Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 2011
- Article
How Should the Graduate Economics Core be Changed?
By: Vincent Pons, Jose Miguel Abito, Katarina Borovickova, Hays Golden, Jacob Goldin, Matthew A. Masten, Miguel Morin, Alexander Poirier, Israel Romem, Tyler Williams and Chamna Yoon
The authors present suggestions by graduate students from a range of economics departments for improving the first-year core sequence in economics. The students identified a number of elements that should be added to the core: more training in building microeconomic...
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Pons, Vincent, Jose Miguel Abito, Katarina Borovickova, Hays Golden, Jacob Goldin, Matthew A. Masten, Miguel Morin, Alexander Poirier, Israel Romem, Tyler Williams, and Chamna Yoon. "How Should the Graduate Economics Core be Changed?" Journal of Economic Education 42, no. 4 (2011): 414–417.
- 2011
- Chapter
Promoting Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Job Creation
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Promoting Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Job Creation." In Reshaping Tomorrow: Is South Asia Ready for the Big Leap? edited by Ejaz Ghani, 168–201. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- December 2010
- Background Note
Risk and Reward in Venture Capital
This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital–backed companies and in venture capital portfolios. Venture Capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (0ver 50%) and a small number of given successes (greater than...
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Keywords:
Capital Markets;
Venture Capital;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Analytics and Data Science;
Failure;
Performance;
Information Technology
Sahlman, William A. "Risk and Reward in Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-036, December 2010.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Labor;
Industry Clusters;
Industry Structures;
Relationships;
Competitive Advantage;
Technology Industry;
California
Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-061, December 2010.
- 2010
- Chapter
Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters
By: William R. Kerr
This report provides a comprehensive look at the role of innovation in promoting economic and social development. It examines the impact of innovation on the economic growth of developing countries and the future role of technological innovation in international...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Society;
Growth and Development;
Climate Change;
Social Issues;
Industry Clusters;
Business and Government Relations
Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters." In The Innovation for Development Report 2010-2011, edited by Augusto Lopez-Claros, 103–107. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- November 2010
- Case
Gilt Groupe
By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Tamara Obradov
The case explores decisions faced by Gilt Groupe co-founders in 2009 regarding how rapidly to grow, which growth strategies to pursue and how much capital to raise.
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Growth Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Making
Roberts, Michael J., William A. Sahlman, and Tamara Obradov. "Gilt Groupe." Harvard Business School Case 811-049, November 2010.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Economic Growth;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Size;
Research and Development;
United States
Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr. "Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-044, October 2010. (SSRN, HBS WP 11-044.)
- July – August 2010
- Article
The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small
By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2010): 26.
- July 2010
- Article
The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention
By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and...
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Keywords:
Engineering;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Immigration;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Business and Government Relations;
Science;
United States
Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 473–508. (Winner of H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2010-2011.)
- June 2010
- Article
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
By: Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise coagglomeration indices for US manufacturing industries from the Economic...
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Keywords:
Production;
Economics;
Industry Clusters;
Analytics and Data Science;
Labor;
Theory;
Goods and Commodities;
United States;
United Kingdom
Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns." American Economic Review 100, no. 3 (June 2010): 1195–1213.
- May 12, 2010
- Article
Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 12, 2010).
- 01 May 2010
- Lecture
Clusters and Start-Up Location Choice
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Clusters and Start-Up Location Choice." Lecture at the HBS Faculty Research Symposium, Harvard Business School, May 01, 2010.
- April – May 2010
- Article
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Entry and Exit;
Banking Industry;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size." Journal of the European Economic Association 8, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2010): 582–593.
- 2010
- Chapter
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- February 2010
- Case
Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap
This two-page case demonstrates how to unbundle the cost of credit extensions from product prices by observing the price of a credit default swap. It also explores how credit default swaps work, and how trade creditors are treated under U.S. bankruptcy law. Finally it...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Credit;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Laws and Statutes;
Risk Management;
Auto Industry;
United States
Fruhan, William E. "Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap." Harvard Business School Case 210-056, February 2010.
- 2010
- Chapter
What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?
By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?" In Rappaport Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief. John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2010.
- January 2010
- Article
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent...
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Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 46–60.