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09 Oct 2018
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The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

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04 Feb 2014
Working Paper Summaries

From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort and Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl & Anita Williams Woolley

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

vis-a-vis local financial development in districts all along the route, is the first paper to connect microlevel financial development with infrastructure development. The paper, Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network, is coauthored View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

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31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigration in the United States. For example, even though advocates often use examples like Brin to argue for expanding the H-1B program, which is used for employment-based immigration by adults, the Google founder actually came to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 May 2020
Cold Call Podcast

Autonomous Vehicles Are Ready to Disrupt Society, Business—and You

Keywords: Re: Elie Ofek & William R. Kerr; Auto

March–April 2017
Article

Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah

Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details

Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics

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25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Dec 2015
News

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

01 Oct 2018
Video

Who Benefits From Global Talent?

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

generation ago. If you are a global entrepreneur, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, "you have to think much earlier and much faster." The new MBA second-year course... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education