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- 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.
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The developed panel includes both emerging and advanced economies, and particular attention is devoted to the variation exploited in empirical tests. The elasticity of export...
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Kerr, William R. "Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns". 2009.
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
school is sufficient to produce the set of student optimal stable matchings. Our main theoretical result is that a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism that breaks indifferences the same way at every school is not dominated by...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The...
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Carmen Nobel
- October 2019
- Supplement
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-703, October 2019.
- March 2013
- Module Note
Launching Global Ventures: Business Models
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Launching Global Ventures: Business Models ." Harvard Business School Module Note 813-161, March 2013.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability (TN)
By: William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for 811098.
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- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
The Higher Order Moments of Establishment Employments
By: William R. Kerr
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
2018 Redwood City, Stanford Business Books The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—The global race for talent is on, with countries and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
a lowest-common-denominator way. An organization's definition of "good governance" should be explicit and agreed to by all, not left to individual interpretation. Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Working papers
By: William R. Kerr
Released working papers are provided under the "Publications" tab
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- Supplement
Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-701, September 2019.
- Other Article
America, Don't Throw Global Talent Away
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "America, Don't Throw Global Talent Away." Nature 563, no. 5572 (November 22, 2018): 445.
- December 2016
- Background Note
Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
Forward-thinking established companies utilize new routes for external innovation with start-ups and crowds. The reading reviews strategic partnerships, strategic investments, strategic acquisitions, and crowd-based collaborations. Case examples include Google, SK...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Corporate Innovation;
Collaboration;
Partnerships;
Innovation and Invention;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy
Kerr, William R. "Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 817-044, December 2016.
- Article
How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad
By: William R. Kerr
This article identifies how digital businesses need to be adapted to the local environment in which they are being applied. Core ideas include the development of strong barriers to entry, the types of network effects encountered, and the localization of business...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Market Entry and Exit;
Adaptation;
Entrepreneurship;
Network Effects
Kerr, William R. "How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 24, 2015).
- 2013
- Working Paper
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This...
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Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-017, August 2013.
- March 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Teaching Note
TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships (TN)
By: William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for 807175.
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- 2009
- Working Paper
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 US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations....
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Immigration;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Patents;
Industry Clusters;
United States
Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-020, September 2009.
- 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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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.