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Public entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, leadership, business and government, cities, artificial intelligence View Details
- 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.... View Details
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.
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
sensors and other road technology are helping to improve safety for drivers. For example, Street Bump, a smartphone app created by the city of Boston, can detect potholes from the bumps cars experience on roads and send the locations of... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image by HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock/PNG City and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Its user base is not really growing, but 70 million users is nothing to sneeze at. So why doesn't MySpace get the attention it deserves? The fascinating answer, acquired by studying a dataset of 100,000 MySpace users, is that they largely populate smaller View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
specifically for beneficiaries who have received advanced degrees in the United States.) "It's a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says William Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies how immigration affects View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
and Partners P-TECH, an innovation in public education conceived by IBM in partnership with the New York City K-12 public education system and the city's two-year colleges, had barely been underway when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports tell us the same story. In... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Essentially, subjects are shown dots on a screen representing 25 cities and asked to make a route that hits all of the cities and returns to their starting point. The goal: find the route requiring the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
"Often companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created," says Ahuja, who wrote the paper with Curba Lampert of Florida International University and Elena Novelli of City University London.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For instance, the company is seeking a model for using Yelp reviews of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
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.... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-003, July 2008. (Forthcoming book chapter in Agglomeration Economics.)
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it. The solution may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations across the Atlantic Ocean—not... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizations in Chile and around the world. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612046-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612047-PDF-ENG Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne