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  • May 2025
  • Teaching Note

Clay Ridge Capital

By: William R. Kerr and Martin A. Sinozich
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 823-089. Kel Jackson, with the support of his young family, has been searching for a manufacturing business to purchase. After a long process, Kel had submitted a written offer to buy Sheetfab that matched his original conversation with... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Manufacturing Industry
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Kerr, William R., and Martin A. Sinozich. "Clay Ridge Capital." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 825-202, May 2025.
  • 2024
  • White Paper

Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List

By: William R. Kerr and Michael C. Clemens
Keywords: Immigration; Labor; Competency and Skills
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Kerr, William R., and Michael C. Clemens. "Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief, 24-8, Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2024.
  • May 2018
  • Teaching Note

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

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. 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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Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-518, May 2018.
  • 2010
  • Chapter

What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?

By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; City; Urban Scope; Situation or Environment
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Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?" In Rappaport Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief. John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2010.
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Transformation of Self Employment

By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to... View Details
Keywords: Self-employment; Startup Investment; Occupational Choice; Financing; Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Financing and Loans
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Colaiacovo, Innessa, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "The Transformation of Self Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-051, January 2022.
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Students Manufacturing Reports, 1927-1966. HBS Archives, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Metalworking Tomorrow: A Study of New Concepts and Revolutionary Innovations in Metalworking Processes , 1954 R. Lawrence Coughlin, Jr.;... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Students Manufacturing Reports, 1927-1966. HBS Archives, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Metalworking Tomorrow: A Study of New Concepts and Revolutionary Innovations in Metalworking Processes , 1954 R. Lawrence Coughlin, Jr.;... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

and even a required course, The Entrepreneurial Manager? William Kerr is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, unit head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • April 2025
  • Supplement

Influencer-Led Brand Building: Hairitage and the McKnights

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
Supplement for HBS Case No. 825-066. View Details
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Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Influencer-Led Brand Building: Hairitage and the McKnights." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 825-703, April 2025.
  • February 2020
  • Case

Supercell (Abridged)

By: William R. Kerr and Sarah Gulick
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Kerr, William R., and Sarah Gulick. "Supercell (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-102, February 2020.
  • May 2018
  • Supplement

Transformation at ING (C): Culture

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
In 2016, ING Group began an overhaul of its company culture, culminating in a code of conduct dubbed "The Orange Code." View Details
Keywords: ING; Company Culture; Cultural Change; Change; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Netherlands
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Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at ING (C): Culture." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-121, May 2018.
  • January 2018
  • Case

Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (A)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, must decide on the final list of candidates for the critical global marketing director position the company has been trying to fill for over a year. Since its founding in 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Recruiting; Staffing; Emergent Countries; Entrepreneurial Management; Private Sector; Business Strategy; Decision; Growth Management; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Turkey
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Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-083, January 2018.
  • June 2017
  • Supplement

Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Keywords: Eli Lilly; Pharmaceutical Companies; Restructuring; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indiana; Indianapolis
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Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-136, June 2017.
  • June 2017
  • Teaching Note

TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-092. View Details
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Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 817-147, June 2017.
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Agglomeration and Innovation

By: Gerald Carlino and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; City; Innovation and Invention
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Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr. "Agglomeration and Innovation." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Volume 5, edited by Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William C. Strange, 349–404. Elsevier, 2015.
  • September 2013
  • Case

Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Homestrings is an online investment platform for overseas diasporas to link financially with their home countries. The founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company... View Details
Keywords: Diasporas; Investments; Regulations; Africa; Crowd-funding; Development Finance; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Services Industry; Africa; United States
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Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development." Harvard Business School Case 814-031, September 2013.
  • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
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AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company

By: William R. Kerr and Henry Motte-Munoz
AVA is a three-year old e-commerce company in the Philippines. From its early start mimicking the Gilt Groupe concept of online flash sales, the company has grown into a broader e-commerce platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Philippines
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Kerr, William R., and Henry Motte-Munoz. "AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company." Harvard Business School Case 813-188, June 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
  • September 2012 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself for continued operations and long-term growth. View Details
Keywords: India; Loans; Development; Micro Finance; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Social Enterprise; Poverty; India
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Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India." Harvard Business School Case 813-092, September 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
  • April – May 2010
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Banking Industry; United States
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Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size." Journal of the European Economic Association 8, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2010): 582–593.
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
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Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-013, August 2009.
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