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  • 12 Mar 2020
  • News

5 Tips for Staying Productive and Mentally Healthy While You’re Working From Home

  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
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Bernstein, Shai, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada. "The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-065, December 2021. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30797, December 2022.)
  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources." Organization Science 28, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 339–354.
  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business

Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
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Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business." Harvard Business School Case 601-081, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)

    Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details
    • 06 Dec 2013
    • News

    Valley of good works

    • 08 Jan 2022
    • News

    Harvard And Stanford Professors Predict The Future Of Work

    • April 2021
    • Article

    Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson. "Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 4 (April 2021): 655–683.
    • 15 Sep 2015
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    September 15, 2015

    Shane Greenstein Abstract—We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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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    Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 473–508. (Winner of H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2010-2011.)
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

    By: Josh Lerner, Henry Manley, Carolyn Stein and Heidi Williams
    University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discoveries never realize their potential social... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Higher Education; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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    Lerner, Josh, Henry Manley, Carolyn Stein, and Heidi Williams. "The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-043, January 2024. (Econometrica, Conditionally Accepted. Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 31898 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 24-043. Related discussion published as “The Commercialisation of University Research: The Role of People versus Place,” VoxEU, 2024.)
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • News

    How Immigrants Changed the Geography of Innovation

    • 24 Oct 2016
    • News

    Apple Has Designs on Stifling Innovation

    • January 2003 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    Joint Juice

    Focuses on Joint Juice, a start-up in the new-age beverage category. The company has a patented formula for producing a glucosamine beverage, the only one on the market. (Glucosamine is a nutritional supplement believed to help rejuvenate joints and treat arthritis.)... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Roberts, Michael J., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Joint Juice." Harvard Business School Case 803-146, January 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Trade and Industrial Policy in Supply Chains: Directed Technological Change in Rare Earths

    By: Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger, Jay Schymik and Gede Virananda
    Trade and industrial policies, while primarily intended to support domestic industries, may unintentionally stimulate technological progress abroad. We document this mechanism in the case of rare earth elements (REEs)—critical inputs for manufacturing at the knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Industrial Policy; Global Value Chains; Directed Technological Change; Input-output Linkages; Innovation; Trade; Metals and Minerals; Technological Innovation; Supply Chain; Technology Industry
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    Alfaro, Laura, Harald Fadinger, Jay Schymik, and Gede Virananda. "Trade and Industrial Policy in Supply Chains: Directed Technological Change in Rare Earths." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-059, May 2025.
    • 2017
    • Article

    High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
    This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
    Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
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    Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234.
    • 19 May 2021
    • News

    Americans Are Booking Working ‘Vacci-cations’ before Office Life Resumes

    • 11 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Non-competes Push Talent Away

    that don't," says Lee Fleming, a professor at Harvard Business School who coauthored the paper with Marx, along with INSEAD professor Jasjit Singh (PhDBE '04). To test their brain drain theory, the researchers analyzed the US patent... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
    • 05 Nov 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Changing Face of American Innovation

    science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the National Academy of Sciences,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
    • December 2003
    • Case

    Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.

    Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry
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    Bagley, Constance E. "Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 804-104, December 2003.
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