by William R. Kerr - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2007
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler

15 Apr 2010
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar

08 Oct 2009
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr & Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto

Profile

for her boss William Oesterle. Hicks was a 22-year old college graduate, an economics major from DePauw University, who had grown up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Oesterle, a venture investor and a fellow HBS alum (MBA 1992) was remodeling an... View Details

18 Nov 2011
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra

18 Nov 2016
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Innovation Network

Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr; Technology

09 May 2013
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr

30 Jul 2015
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Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit & William Kerr

30 Mar 2021
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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New US Ventures

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

23 May 2007
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What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Keywords: by Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser & William Kerr; Manufacturing

14 Feb 2019
News

The $4.8 trillion immigration issue that is being overlooked by Washington

02 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom & William Kerr

24 May 2017
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by John Horton, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton

14 Dec 2017
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, and Tina Xu

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

20 Oct 2016
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Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağllar Özden, and Christopher Parsons

10 May 2022
News

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

private employer in the United States, with 1.5 million workers (2.2 million worldwide). But that size and dominance doesn’t make Walmart immune to pressures faced by any other retail operation. In the second-year Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

09 Oct 2018
News

The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

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