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  • March 2016
  • Article

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details
Keywords: Highways; Roads; India; Development; Manufacturing; Density; Rent; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • May 2014
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find... View Details
Keywords: Women; Female; Political Reservations; Development; Informal Sector; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; India; South Asia
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Faculty News

Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn... View Details
Keywords: reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

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

By: David H Autor, William R. Kerr and Adriana D Kugler
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  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Alumni Books

presidential portrayal. Next Generation Management Development: The Complete Guide and Resource by Robert D. Cecil (MBA ’68) and William J. Rothwell (John Wiley & Sons) This book contains a comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Sahlman discusses how Khan Academy, a global online education nonprofit, strives to balance founder Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) vision with the need to focus and scale. Prediction: How AI Will Affect Business, Work, and Life Bill Kerr speaks... View Details
  • Web

Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden” examines how job matching platforms in Sweden, Germany, and Italy have sought to address the challenging refugee crisis in their countries. Podcast Explores Unilever’s Digital Transformation In an HBS podcast, Professor View Details
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

University Elections

Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Directors. Ballots will be mailed View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST (A)

By: Frank Nagle, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr and David Lane
On December 12, 2020, SolarWinds learned that malware had been inserted in its software, potentially granting hackers access to thousands and thousands of its 300,000 customers. General Counsel Jason Bliss needed to orchestrate the company response without knowing how... View Details
Keywords: Cyberattacks; Cybersecurity; Corporate Disclosure; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Legal Liability; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

eventually drew the interest of all of Switzerland and neighboring countries to Holderbank, which suddenly became famous for more than cement and concrete. Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled Collection of American Prints View Details
  • October 2022
  • Background Note

Note on Cyberattacks and Regulatory Regimes

By: Frank Nagle, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Describes common types of cyberattacks on enterprises and their costs, as well as the fragmentary regulatory regimes through which U.S. states and regulatory agencies at the start of 2021 attempted to encourage disclosure of cyberattacks and to pursue enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Regulations; Regulatory Agencies; Cyberattacks; Governance; Corporate Disclosure; Cybersecurity; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

correspondence with Russell & Sturgis, another prominent China trading firm. Cushing, eager to return to Massachusetts, made arrangements to dissolve Perkins & Company by merging with Russell & Co in 1831. View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

Working Papers Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study how external versus internal innovations promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

the Uniform Small Loan Law, legalizing thousands of small lenders and providing some measure of consumer protection for their clients. 30 25 William R. Simpson and Florence Simpson, with Charles Samuels,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

countries. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society by William R. Kerr Stanford Business Books The global race... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

that his generation is leaving them and what they will need to do about it. Japan and the Shackles of the Past (What Everyone Needs to Know) by R. Taggart Murphy (MBA 1981) (Oxford University Press) Japan is... View Details
  • 2019
  • Report

A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019

By: Michael E. Porter, Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, William R. Kerr and Manjari Raman
In this report, the authors synthesize their views on U.S. competitiveness and unveil the findings of the 2019 HBS surveys on U.S. competitiveness. Specifically, this report—built on the survey findings and eight years of prior research on the competitiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Competitive Strategy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; United States
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Harvard Business School

Thomas was appointed Dean and William R. Berkley Chair of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. In January 2018, he became the 12th president of Morehouse College. Dr. Thomas has devoted his... View Details