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- 09 Jun 2020
- News
Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
private employer in the United States, with 1.5 million workers (2.2 million worldwide). But that size and dominance doesn’t make Walmart immune to pressures faced by any other retail operation. In the second-year Harvard Business School...
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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View...
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- 06 Jul 2020
- News
The UK Says It Loves Immigrants. Will Immigrants Believe It?
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51739 October 3, 2016 Harvard Business Review Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship By: Pekkala View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March–April 2017
- Article
Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior
By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource...
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Adaptive Management;
Awareness;
Behavioral Economics;
Behavioral Science;
Conservation Intervention;
Conservation Planning;
Decision-making;
Incentives;
Nudge;
Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Marketing;
Decision Making;
Environmental Sustainability;
Economics
Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah. "Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior." Conservation Letters 10, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 248–256. (doi:10.1111/conl.12252.)
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H. Gregg Lewis Prize
By: William R. Kerr
Winner of the 2010-2011 H. Gregg Lewis Prize from the Journal of Labor Economics for his paper with William F. Lincoln “The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Innovation” (July 2010).
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- 18 Oct 2018
- News
What Will Trump Do Next With Chinese Student Visas?
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
specific age when they arrived—was a critical factor determining their success in school, work, and beyond. Younger immigrants—with the right support and clear paths to education and employment—outperform their older peers decades down the line, finds View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
School Professor William R. Kerr. “Nationalistic policies have gained strength all around the world,” Kerr says, pointing to Brexit in the UK and strains caused by the refugee...
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- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and...
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- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
William Kerr. In a new paper, Kerr and his collaborators shed light on how discrimination affects fundraising, and ways crowdfunding sites, entrepreneurs, and investors can take action. Minority business founders already typically face a...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business...
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by Rachel Layne
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a...
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2020
- News
Trump uses the pandemic to push far-right agenda
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they...
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- 08 Mar 2017
- News