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AASU50 - Alumni

Stansbury, Jr., MBA 1973 Walter L. Ross, MBA 1973 Terry L. Jones, MBA 1974 Stephen R. Bryant, MBA 1974 Harry G. Walker, III, MBA 1975 Jonathan L. Weaver, MBA 1975 Frank E. Lattimore, MBA 1976 Anita R.... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2018
  • News

As Washington ignores high-skill immigration debate, US suffers

  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

through affective mechanisms.   Working Papers Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2018
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. Emily View Details
  • September 2012 (Revised September 2016)
  • Background Note

Convertible Notes in Seed Financings

By: Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr and Robert F. White
This note introduces convertible notes in angel financing. It begins by delineating the differences between a priced and non-priced round. It then describes a specific example of a convertible note, with attention paid to technical details regarding valuation caps. View Details
Keywords: Financing; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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  • 04 Jul 2019
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How immigrant entrepreneurs get their start in the U.S. economy

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Events - Business History

Hotel Chain" Megan Elias (Boston University), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual Seminars BHI's Virtual Seminar Series, "Business, Institutions, and Regions," is hosted by Yuan Jia-Zheng and Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School). Please RSVP... View Details
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

by invitation only. Planning to Attend HBS Faculty Chairs Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998) , Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) , MBA Class of 1961... View Details
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons Abstract—This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

Psychological Science Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? By: Benartzi, Shlomo, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker-Ray, William J.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2016
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Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Faced with the imminent loss of 40% of its revenues due to patent expirations, pharma giant Eli Lilly sets out on a dramatic transformation process in 2009. The case considers how Lilly restructured the organization into business areas to aid better decision-making,... View Details
Keywords: Eli Lilly; Restructuring; R＆D; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indianapolis
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  • 2013
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Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the... View Details
Keywords: Nationality; Employment; Immigration
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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. It also teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their... View Details
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Bibliography | 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
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Awarded a Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by the Freie Universita t Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften in 2006. 2005 Gerald C. Chertavian : Received the 2005 Freedom House Archie View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

By: Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Labor; Industry Clusters; Transportation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Boris Groysberg : Named a Top 100 HR Tech Influencer by Human Resource Executive and the HR Technology Conference in 2020. Linda A. Hill : Awarded #5 in the Top 20 MIT Sloan Management Review articles of 2020 for "Being the Agile Boss"... View Details