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  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

  Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Employment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr
U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial... View Details
Keywords: Invention; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; United States
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  • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of... View Details
Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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  • March 2022
  • Article

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr
U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Invention; Agglomeration; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Linden, with a reputation for being open and knowledgeable yet sometimes intimidating, tries to convince the committee to come around to his way of thinking. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913509-PDF-ENG PunchTab, Inc. Investor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

helps them to fulfill this motivation. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/leboeuf%20norton%20in%20press.pdf Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey Authors:Sari Pekkala Kerr and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2019
  • Teaching Note

Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
A Teaching Note for the "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" case study (HBS#820-048). The case discusses recent controversies regarding how Google manages temporary help agency workers, workers supplied by vendors, and independent contractors ("TVCs"). Such TVCs reportedly... View Details
Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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  • 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors: William R. Kerr View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

Viceira and Ricardo Gimeno Publication:Spain in the EMU (forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/Europroject_20091112-ALL.pdf What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Strategy - Doctoral

2020 INSEAD Advisors: Dennis A. Yao (Chair), Rebecca M. Henderson , Michael Luca , and Amanda Pallais Innessa Colaiacovo, 2024 University of Oregon, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, Management Department Advisors: Rembrand M.... View Details
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Managing the Future of Work

within. The Index also reveals that more than half of firms promoted less and 4 in 10 hired fewer individuals without a college degree. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: View Details
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Faculty & Research

Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of... View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1955–1978 Michael R. Bloomberg Bloomberg, L. P., 1982–2001 Charles G. Bluhdorn Gulf and Western, 1958–1983 W. Michael Blumenthal Bendix Corporation, 1967–1976 William E. Boeing... View Details
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Business Economics - Doctoral

Esty C. Fritz Foley Paul A. Gompers Jerry R. Green Shane M. Greenstein Robin Greenwood Brian J. Hall Samuel G. Hanson Victoria Ivashina Ebehi Iyoha William R. View Details