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  • April 2020 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Unilever's Response to the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In February 2020, Nick Dalton, executive vice president HR business transformation at Unilever, reflected on the changing nature of work marked by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Human Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Human Resources; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled... View Details
Keywords: H-1B; Firms; Scientists; Engineers; Inventors; Age; Employment; Competency and Skills; Immigration; United States
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Indoor Spaces | About

of Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA 1971) and is named in honor of his classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA 1971). Bricklin Classroom The Dan Bricklin Classroom, located inside Aldrich Hall, was named by the... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Article Entrepreneurship as Experimentation By: William R. Kerr , Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Entrepreneurship research is on the rise, but many questions about... View Details
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Research - Managing the Future of Work

More Related Faculty Joseph B. Fuller Entrepreneurial Management , General Management 15 results William R. Kerr Entrepreneurial Management Karen Mills General Management , Entrepreneurial Management Jan W.... View Details
  • 2022
  • Article

The Great Resignation Didn't Start with the Pandemic

By: Joseph B. Fuller and William R. Kerr
COVID-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit... View Details
Keywords: Quit Rate; Labor Market; Great Resignation; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Health Pandemics
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

de Chalendar. Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work , Harvard Business School case, 2019. With William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg. The Caring Company:... View Details
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Courses First Year (Required Curriculum) During the first year at HBS, all students pursue the same course of study called the Required Curriculum. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general... View Details
  • October 2016
  • Case

Supercell

By: William R. Kerr, Benjamin F. Jones and Alexis Brownell
Supercell is a young Finnish smartphone game company with an unusual team structure and company philosophy. It is already one of Finland’s most valuable companies, and despite being only six years old, it has put up some impressive numbers: as of 2016, it has released... View Details
Keywords: Supercell; Finland; Video Games; Firm Structure; Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry; Finland
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  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

became immediately popular, but it did not displace the joint stock form. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-037.pdf Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, Stephen Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root ca... Re: Stephen Moret (MBA 2001); Joseph B. Fuller (Professor of Management Practice); William R. Kerr (Dimitri V.... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Choetsow Tenzin. "Doing Business in Casablanca, Morocco." Harvard Business School Case 325-105, February 2025. More Publications Faculty Karim R. Lakhani Willy C. Shih David B. Yoffie Lynda M. Applegate Rosabeth M. Kanter Marco Iansiti... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker & Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Baker Library is named after Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker. The Bloomberg Center... View Details
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

Transformation at ING (A): Agile

By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
In December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change; Organizational Management; Workforce; Agile; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry
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  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 811-078 Chris Exline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

School McCall, ID Subjects: U.S. History WI David Olson James Madison Memorial High School Madison, WI Subjects: Government, History WA Meghan Olson Graham Kapowsin High School Graham, WA FL Sydney Olson William View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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Student Research - Doctoral

D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao and Alyna T. Chien OBJECTIVES: This paper provides an examination of: (1) the frequency and net rates of change for general pediatric inpatient (GPI) unit closures and... View Details