by William R. Kerr - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2013
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incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William View Details

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About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

leading urban centers and rural areas We are grateful to our research partners, who have provided pro bono or in-kind support as well as expertise and thought leadership: Accenture BCG Burning Glass Institute Grads of Life Lightcast Faculty Co-Chairs View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

in meetings. Citation Read Now Related Dillon, Eleanor W., Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica, and Christopher Stanton. "Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33795, May 2025. Influencer-led brand building: Hairitage and the McKnights... 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 ,... View Details

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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

management and competitiveness . The author of 19 books and over 130 articles, he is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the director of the school’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness,... View Details

June 2020
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Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and James Palano

Consumer products companies were beset by changes on all sides during the 2010s. Customers were increasingly turning to ecommerce platforms rather than shopping in-store. Meanwhile, nimble, digitally-savvy competitors were gaining market share by capitalizing on the... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Retail; Ecommerce; Alibaba; Consumer Products; Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; China

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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... View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness

Dec 2019 Survey A Recovery Squandered By: Michael E. Porter , Jan W. Rivkin , Mihir A. Desai , Katherine M. Gehl , William R. Kerr , with Manjari Raman In 2019, HBS faculty... View Details

January 2017
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TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme

By: William R. Kerr, Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner and Alexis Brownell

TalentCorp Malaysia runs the "Returning Expert Programme" (REP), a government program designed to encourage Malaysian professionals abroad to return home through use of various incentives. The REP is intended to combat the "brain drain," caused by highly educated... View Details

Keywords: Malaysia; Diaspora; Brain Drain; Migration; Diasporas; Government and Politics; Immigration; Human Capital; Programs; Malaysia

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2022
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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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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

20 Mar 2012
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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

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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

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Faculty - U.S. Competitiveness

Rosabeth M. Kanter Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration;... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Manjari supports co-chairs William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller on all project priorities. Her research efforts focus on location choices by... View Details

30 Mar 2010
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are discussed. The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy Authors:Greg Barron and Stephen Leider Publication:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (2009) Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision... View Details

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Other Teaching and Training Material

Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and James McQuade

"Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures" introduces students to the key issues involved in the financing of entrepreneurial enterprises. The Reading begins by examining how business models shape external financing requirements. It then contrasts the choice to bootstrap... 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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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. View Details

October 2019 (Revised March 2021)
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Modern Automation (B): Robotics

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano

Driven largely by advances in perception and situational awareness, robots in the 2010s were gaining functionality that allowed them to be applied to fundamentally new types of work. The expanding range of new tasks that could be completed by machines had significant... View Details

Keywords: Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Future Of Work; Technology Commercialization; Information Technology; Commercialization; Employment; AI and Machine Learning

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