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William R. Kerr

William R. Kerr

Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration
Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management

Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration
Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management

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William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is the Unit Head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and the faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award.

Bill’s recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society (2018). It explores the global race for talent and how countries and businesses compete for high-skilled migrants. The book reveals how immigration has transformed U.S. innovation, reshaped the economy through the rise of talent clusters and superstar firms, and influenced society at large in positive and adverse ways. The book argues that America, and the world, can get more out of global talent flows with sensible reforms.

The Managing the Future of Work project considers the unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities presented to businesses, including rapid technological revolutions, shifting global product and labor markets, aging workforces, and growing skills gaps. These forces change the ways that businesses compete with each other and engage workers. This multi-faculty project identifies how companies, schools, workers and the public sector can come together to manage the challenging transitions ahead as the nature of work is radically transformed. The initiative produces leading research on these themes and disseminates to broader audiences through platforms like the MFW podcast series.

Bill’s broader research centers on how companies and economies explore new opportunities and generate growth. He considers the leadership and resources necessary to identify, launch and sustain dynamic and enduring organizations. He works with companies worldwide on the development of new ventures and transformations for profitable growth. He also advises governments about investments in the innovative capacities of their nations.

Bill and his family live in Lexington, MA. They enjoy outdoor sports and trail running, are active members of their local church, and maintain close ties to his wife's home country of Finland. Bill grew up in Alabama and remains a passionate college football fan.

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Featured Work Publications Research Summary Teaching Awards & Honors
The Gift of Global Talent
How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The future is quite uncertain, and the global talent puzzle deserves close examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice.

Amazon Page

Extended Book Page

Managing the Future of Work
The nature of work is changing. As companies grapple with forces—such as rapid technological change, shifting global product and labor markets, evolving regulatory regimes, outsourcing, and the fast emergence of the gig economy—they must overcome challenges and tap opportunities to attract, retain, and improve the productivity of their human assets. And they must do so in partnership with policymakers, educators, and nonprofits as well as in collaboration with other companies. Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action to navigate this complex landscape.

MFW Overview

MFW Podcast


Recent Case Materials:
Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center
AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture
AT&T: Managing Technological Change
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?
CareerWise Colorado
Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work
CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
Chime Solutions
The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)
Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
Hot Chicken Takeover
MobSquad
Osaro: Picking the Best Path
Transformation at ING (A): Agile
Transformation at ING (B): Innovation
Transformation at ING (C): Culture
Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artifical Intelligence
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?
Walmart’s Workforce of the Future
Western Governors University: 10x Vision

Recent Primers:
Care Economy in the U.S.
China Commerce 2020
Demographic Changes for the Future of Work in Japan
The Gig Economy: Leasing Skills to Pay the Bills
Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work
Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence
Modern Automation (B): Robotics
The New Generation of Retail
Note on Digital Commerce and Delivery
Note on the Future of Commerce
Note on the Future of Work
Talent Management in the Future of Work


Entrepreneurship Readings
  • Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
  • Launching Global Ventures
  • Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies
  • Financing New Ventures
  • Convertible Notes in Seed Financings
  • Pitching Business Opportunities
  • Further cases are listed under Publications tab
Media
  • Find selected recent media here
  • Find sample media appearances here

William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is the Unit Head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and the faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award.

Bill’s recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society (2018). It explores the global race for talent and how countries and businesses compete for high-skilled migrants. The book reveals how immigration has transformed U.S. innovation, reshaped the economy through the rise of talent clusters and superstar firms, and influenced society at large in positive and adverse ways. The book argues that America, and the world, can get more out of global talent flows with sensible reforms.

The Managing the Future of Work project considers the unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities presented to businesses, including rapid technological revolutions, shifting global product and labor markets, aging workforces, and growing skills gaps. These forces change the ways that businesses compete with each other and engage workers. This multi-faculty project identifies how companies, schools, workers and the public sector can come together to manage the challenging transitions ahead as the nature of work is radically transformed. The initiative produces leading research on these themes and disseminates to broader audiences through platforms like the MFW podcast series.

Bill’s broader research centers on how companies and economies explore new opportunities and generate growth. He considers the leadership and resources necessary to identify, launch and sustain dynamic and enduring organizations. He works with companies worldwide on the development of new ventures and transformations for profitable growth. He also advises governments about investments in the innovative capacities of their nations.

Bill and his family live in Lexington, MA. They enjoy outdoor sports and trail running, are active members of their local church, and maintain close ties to his wife's home country of Finland. Bill grew up in Alabama and remains a passionate college football fan.

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

The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The future is quite uncertain, and the global talent puzzle deserves close examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice.

Amazon Page

Extended Book Page

Managing the Future of Work
The nature of work is changing. As companies grapple with forces—such as rapid technological change, shifting global product and labor markets, evolving regulatory regimes, outsourcing, and the fast emergence of the gig economy—they must overcome challenges and tap opportunities to attract, retain, and improve the productivity of their human assets. And they must do so in partnership with policymakers, educators, and nonprofits as well as in collaboration with other companies. Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action to navigate this complex landscape.

MFW Overview

MFW Podcast


Recent Case Materials:
Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center
AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture
AT&T: Managing Technological Change
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?
CareerWise Colorado
Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work
CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
Chime Solutions
The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)
Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
Hot Chicken Takeover
MobSquad
Osaro: Picking the Best Path
Transformation at ING (A): Agile
Transformation at ING (B): Innovation
Transformation at ING (C): Culture
Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artifical Intelligence
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?
Walmart’s Workforce of the Future
Western Governors University: 10x Vision

Recent Primers:
Care Economy in the U.S.
China Commerce 2020
Demographic Changes for the Future of Work in Japan
The Gig Economy: Leasing Skills to Pay the Bills
Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work
Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence
Modern Automation (B): Robotics
The New Generation of Retail
Note on Digital Commerce and Delivery
Note on the Future of Commerce
Note on the Future of Work
Talent Management in the Future of Work


Entrepreneurship Readings
  • Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
  • Launching Global Ventures
  • Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies
  • Financing New Ventures
  • Convertible Notes in Seed Financings
  • Pitching Business Opportunities
  • Further cases are listed under Publications tab
Media
  • Find selected recent media here
  • Find sample media appearances here
Books
  • Kerr, William R. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2018. View Details
  • Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner, eds. High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. View Details
Working Papers
  • Bai, John (Jianqui), William R. Kerr, Chi Wan, and Alptug Yorulmaz. "Migration Fear and Minority Crowd-Funding Success: Evidence from Kickstarter." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-046, January 2023. View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Global Talent and U.S. Immigration Policy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-107, April 2020. View Details
  • Das, Abhiman, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, William R. Kerr, and Ramana Nanda. "Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-121, June 2019. View Details
Journal Articles
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Ramana Nanda. "House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data." Journal of Monetary Economics 130 (September 2022): 103–119. View Details
  • Fuller, Joseph B., and William R. Kerr. "The Great Resignation Didn't Start with the Pandemic." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 23, 2022). View Details
  • Nair, Leena, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull, and William Kerr. "Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 52–55. View Details
  • Heikkinen, Kalle, William R. Kerr, Mika Malin, and Panu Routila. "4 Imperatives for Managing in a Hybrid World." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 28, 2021). View Details
  • Chattergoon, Brad, and William R. Kerr. "Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention." Art. 104418. Research Policy 51, no. 2 (March 2022). View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures." Journal of Human Capital 15, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 86–127. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Tech Clusters." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 50–76. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012." Art. 103918. Research Policy 49, no. 3 (April 2020). View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Margaret Dalton. "Risk Attitudes and Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs and Venture Team Members." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 36 (September 3, 2019): 17712–17716. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 4 (Summer 2019): 12–13. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "America, Don't Throw Global Talent Away." Nature 563, no. 5572 (November 22, 2018): 445. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Navigating Talent Hot Spots." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 80–86. View Details
  • Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr. "Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations." Journal of Political Economy 126, no. 4 (August 2018): 1374–1443. View Details
  • Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr. "Innovation, Reallocation and Growth." American Economic Review 108, no. 11 (November 2018): 3450–3491. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies." Chap. 27 in The Entrepreneur's Roadmap: From Concept to IPO, edited by Tim Dempsey and Bonnie Hyun, 161–164. Chicago, IL: Caxton Business & Legal, Inc., 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Private Strategy, Public Policy." Science 356, no. 6339 (May 19, 2017): 695. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Highways and Spatial Location within Cities: Evidence from India." World Bank Economic Review 30, Suppl. 1 (March 2017): S97–S108. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration." Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 201–234. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns." World Bank Economic Review 32, no. 1 (February 2018): 163–182. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Harnessing the Best of Globalization." MIT Sloan Management Review 58, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 59–67. View Details
  • Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr. "Innovation Network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 41 (October 11, 2016). View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. "Global Talent Flows." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 83–106. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 3, 2016). View Details
  • Aghion, Philippe, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé, and William R. Kerr. "Taxation, Corruption, and Growth." Special Issue on The Economics of Entrepreneurship. European Economic Review 86 (July 2016): 24–51. View Details
  • Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr. "Transition to Clean Technology." Special Issue on Climate Change and the Economy. Journal of Political Economy 124, no. 2 (February 2016): 52–104. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Global Collaborative Patents." Economic Journal 128, no. 612 (July 2018): F235–F272. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing." Economic Journal 126, no. 591 (March 2016): 317–357. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 24, 2015). View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 4 (October 2015): 877–899. View Details
  • Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 2 (May 2015): 498–520. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. S1 (July 2015): S147–S186. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Entrepreneurship as Experimentation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 25–48. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials." Journal of Monetary Economics 66 (September 2014): 62–78. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell. "Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India." Journal of Development Economics 108 (May 2014): 138–153. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra. "The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6, no. 4 (November 2014): 343–379. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India." Special Issue on Entrepreneurship in a Regional Context. Regional Studies 48, no. 6 (2014): 1071–1089. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India." Management Science 60, no. 7 (July 2014): 1677–1697. View Details
  • Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 23, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 776–810. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar. "The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 1 (January 2014): 20–55. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 6 (November 2013): 929–964. (Winner of the FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.) View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 103, no. 3 (May 2013): 193–197. View Details
  • Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529–1544. View Details
  • Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey." Finnish Economic Papers 24, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1–32. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 473–508. (Winner of H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2010-2011.) View Details
  • Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2010): 26. View Details
  • Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns." American Economic Review 100, no. 3 (June 2010): 1195–1213. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 12, 2010). View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 46–60. View Details
  • Glaeser, Edward L., William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship." Journal of Urban Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2010): 150–168. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Financial Economics 94, no. 1 (October 2009): 124–149. View Details
  • Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 623–663. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Shihe Fu. "The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project." Journal of Technology Transfer 33, no. 2 (April 2008): 173–186. View Details
  • Acs, Zoltan J., Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson, and William C. Strange. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus." Kauffman Foundation Research Report (January 2008). View Details
  • Autor, David H., William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler. "Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States." Economic Journal 117, no. 521 (June 2007): 189–217. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Robert G. King. "Limits on Interest Rate Rules in the IS Model." Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly 82, no. 2 (1996): 47–75. View Details
Book Chapters
  • Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 1–37. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC." In The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in U.S. Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, edited by Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Tina Xu. "Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature." Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship 14, no. 3 (July 2018): 279–356. View Details
  • Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows." Chap. 3 in High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences, edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, 71–108. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship." Chap. 5 in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Vol. 75, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. Studies in Income and Wealth (NBER). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Innovation." Annual Review of Financial Economics 7 (2015): 445–462. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Innovation and Business Growth." In Designing the Future: Economic, Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation, edited by Austrian Council for Research and Training Development, 137–156. Vienna, Austria: Echomedia Buchverlag, 2015. View Details
  • Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr. "The Logic of Agglomeration." In The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Gordon Clark, Maryann Feldman, Meric Gertler, and Dariusz Wojcik, 347–365. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Chap. 6 in The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation: New Evidence and Policy Implications, edited by Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez, 193–221. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. View Details
  • Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr. "Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration." In NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015, Vol. 30, edited by Martin Eichenbaum and Jonathan Parker, 273–335. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "International Migration and U.S. Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience." In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, 82–87. Routledge, 2015. View Details
  • Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 115–152. University of Chicago Press, 2015. View Details
  • Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 129–166. University of Chicago Press, 2014. View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Promoting Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Job Creation." In Reshaping Tomorrow: Is South Asia Ready for the Big Leap? edited by Ejaz Ghani, 168–201. Oxford University Press, 2011. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Foreword." Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees Who Have Shaped Modern China, edited by Wenxian Zhang, Huiyao Wang, and Ilan Alon, 13–15. Bingley, England: Emerald Group Publishing, 2011. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship." Chap. 8 in Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich, 88–103. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. (NBER WP 15498, HBS WP 10-013.) View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters." In The Innovation for Development Report 2010-2011, edited by Augusto Lopez-Claros, 103–107. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. View Details
  • Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Market Regulations and European Restructuring: Evidence from Private Equity Investments." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 151–189. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing Young, Innovative Ventures, (Saarbrüken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 140-176.) View Details
  • Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "Labor Market Regulations and European Venture Capital Investment." In European Productivity Conference Scientific Proceedings, edited by Pekka Malmberg, 165–172. Helsinki, Finland: Paintek Oy, 2007. View Details
  • Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 95–139. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young, Innovative Ventures (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 95-139.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "U.S. Ethnic Scientists and Entrepreneurs." In Cleveland Federal Reserve Board Commentary, 1–4. Progressive Management, 2007. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Sinozich, Martin A., and William R. Kerr. "Clay Ridge Capital." Harvard Business School Case 823-089, January 2023. View Details
  • Fuller, Joseph B., William R. Kerr, and Ria Mazumdar. "The Labor Market as COVID Recedes: A Great Resignation or a Great Realization?" Harvard Business School Background Note 822-113, March 2022. View Details
  • Becker, Anke, Ray Kluender, and William R. Kerr. "ELCA's Series A." Harvard Business School Case 823-079, January 2023. View Details
  • Nagle, Frank, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Note on Cyberattacks and Regulatory Regimes." Harvard Business School Background Note 723-392, October 2022. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel Isenberg, and Ria Mazumdar. "Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 823-045, September 2022. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel Isenberg, and Bailey McAfee. "Can Papaya Global Keep Scaling Fast?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 823-029, September 2022. View Details
  • Krieger, Joshua Lev, William R. Kerr, and Bailey McAfee. "AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 823-024, August 2022. View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, and William R. Kerr. "Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?" Harvard Business School Case 822-143, June 2022. (Revised October 2022.) View Details
  • Shipley, N. Louis, William R. Kerr, and Paige Boehmcke. "Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 822-138, June 2022. View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, and William Kerr. "RacingThePlanet’s 20-Year Marathon." Harvard Business School Case 822-125, May 2022. View Details
  • Bernstein, Shai, William R. Kerr, Jim Matheson, Christopher Stanton, and Ria Mazumdar. "Chime Solutions." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 822-135, May 2022. View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, and William R. Kerr. "Can Papaya Global Keep Scaling Fast?" Harvard Business School Case 222-072, March 2022. (Revised September 2022.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke, and Will Ensor. "Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World." Harvard Business School Background Note 822-108, June 2022. (Revised October 2022.) View Details
  • Krieger, Joshua Lev, William R. Kerr, and Christian Godwin. "AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture." Harvard Business School Case 822-067, November 2021. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Shipley, N. Louis, and William R. Kerr. "Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client." Harvard Business School Case 822-011, September 2021. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Bernstein, Shai, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, and Mel Martin. "Chime Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 821-105, March 2021. View Details
  • Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth, and Michael Norris. "A Close Shave at Squire." Harvard Business School Case 821-073, July 2021. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Bailey McAfee. "Note on the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Background Note 821-063, January 2021. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and James Palano. "Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 820-087, June 2020. View Details
  • Stanton, Christopher, William R. Kerr, James Palano, and Kendall Smith. "Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-105, June 2020. View Details
  • Stanton, Christopher, William R. Kerr, James Palano, and Kendall Smith. "Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 820-093, February 2020. (Revised August 2020.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "China Commerce 2020." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-014, February 2020. (Revised June 2020.) View Details
  • Stanton, Christopher, Shikhar Ghosh, William R. Kerr, Sarah Gulick, and James Palano. "Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-101, February 2020. View Details
  • Choudhury, Prithwiraj, William R. Kerr, and Susie L. Ma. "MobSquad." Harvard Business School Case 821-010, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and James Palano. "The New Generation of Retail." Harvard Business School Background Note 821-036, November 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Sarah Gulick. "Supercell (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-102, February 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Gorick Ng. "Talent Management and the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-084, February 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Bailey McAfee. "Unilever's Response to the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 821-042, November 2020. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Emilie Billaud, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Unilever's Response to the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 820-104, April 2020. (Revised October 2020.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Daniel Isenberg. "Alvogen: Scaling Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-020, July 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-018, July 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, and Carl Kreitzberg. "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow." Harvard Business School Case 820-017, July 2019. (Revised May 2020.) View Details
  • Fuller, Joseph B., William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Carl Kreitzberg. "Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-027, September 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ted Smalley Bowen. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-133, June 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Donald Maruyama. "Geographic Inequality Primer." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-142, May 2019. View Details
  • Fuller, Joseph, William R. Kerr, and Carl Kreitzberg. "The Gig Economy: Leasing Skills to Pay the Bills." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-146, May 2019. (Revised February 2022.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Donald Maruyama. "The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-066, January 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-704, October 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Case 820-048, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-049, October 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-021, September 2019. (Revised October 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-703, October 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Carl Kreitzberg. "Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-131, May 2019. (Revised April 2021.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Managing the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-028, October 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Modern Automation (B): Robotics." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-069, October 2019. (Revised March 2021.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "Note on the Future of Commerce." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-017, June 2019. (Revised October 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Osaro: Picking the Best Path." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-015, July 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., James Palano, and Bastiane Huang. "Osaro: Picking the Best Path." Harvard Business School Case 820-012, July 2019. (Revised November 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Transformation at ING (A), (B), & (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-136, May 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Transformation at ING (A), (B), & (C)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-702, October 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-127, May 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 820-701, September 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Walmart's Workforce of the Future." Harvard Business School Case 819-042, May 2019. (Revised July 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Walmart's Workforce of the Future." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-126, May 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Susie L. Ma. "Western Governors University: 10x Vision." Harvard Business School Case 819-093, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Coelin P. Scibetta. "Western Governors University: 10x Vision." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-042, September 2019. View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Alvogen: Scaling Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Case 819-038, August 2018. (Revised February 2019.) View Details
  • 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 Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.) View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William, Allison Ciechanover, Jeff Huizinga, and James Palano. "Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?" Harvard Business School Case 818-088, January 2018. (Revised March 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William, and James Palano. "Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road…but When?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-040, December 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.) View Details
  • Fuller, Joseph, William Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Donald Maruyama. "The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-089, February 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Managing the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 818-128, May 2018. (Revised October 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha." Harvard Business School Case 819-019, August 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-084, December 2018. (Revised March 2021.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-083, January 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-084, January 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Federica Gabrieli, and Emer Moloney. "Transformation at ING (A): Agile." Harvard Business School Case 818-077, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Federica Gabrieli, and Emer Moloney. "Transformation at ING (B): Innovation." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-078, January 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at ING (C): Culture." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-121, May 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Reilly Kiernan, and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?" Harvard Business School Case 819-035, November 2018. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Emer Moloney. "Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Case 318-109, February 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 319-033, August 2018. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Sari Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-126, March 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 817-143, May 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Sari Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-127, April 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Mark Roberge, and Paul A. Gompers. "The Entrepreneurial Manager, Module I: Defining and Developing the Business Model." Harvard Business School Module Note 817-108, February 2017. (Revised December 2018.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "NetDragon." Harvard Business School Case 818-042, October 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Benjamin F. Jones, and Alexis Brownell. "Supercell." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 817-055, March 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner, and Alexis Brownell. "TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme." Harvard Business School Case 817-092, January 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 817-147, June 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A), (B), & (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 818-034, August 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-136, June 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-137, June 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 818-076, December 2017. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Gamze Yucaoglu, and Eren Kuzucu. "Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data." Harvard Business School Case 817-095, February 2017. View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, and William Kerr. "Alvogen." Harvard Business School Case 816-064, February 2016. (Revised February 2017.) View Details
  • Isenberg, Daniel, William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Alvogen." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 817-057, October 2016. (Revised February 2017.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 817-044, December 2016. View Details
  • Kerr, William, and Kathryn S. Roloff. "Residency Select or J3Personica?" Harvard Business School Case 816-088, March 2016. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Residency Select or J3Personica?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 816-101, May 2016. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Benjamin F. Jones, and Alexis Brownell. "Supercell." Harvard Business School Case 817-052, October 2016. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-070, November 2016. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Harvard Business Publishing 5277, 2015. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Jim Sharpe, and James Weber. "Winnan Metal: Fulfilling the Dream." Harvard Business School Case 815-104, February 2015. (Revised February 2017.) View Details
  • Kerr, William, and Penelope Rossano. "AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 814-122, June 2014. View Details
  • Farre-Mensa, Joan, William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture." Harvard Business School Case 814-073, January 2014. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and James McQuade. "Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Harvard Business Publishing 8072, 2014. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Penelope Rossano. "FanMode: Launching a Global Sports Venture." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 814-124, June 2014. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Penelope Rossano. "Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 815-043, July 2014. View Details
  • Pomeranz, Dina, and William R. Kerr. "IDinsight: Informing Decisions for Global Development." Harvard Business School Case 814-103, March 2014. (Revised June 2016.) View Details
  • 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.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Blink Booking (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-158, February 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple." Harvard Business School Case 814-012, August 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland? (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-166, March 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-122, January 2013. (Revised February 2013.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-123, January 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-151, February 2013. View Details
  • Ghosh, Shikhar, William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "FanMode: Launching a Global Sports Venture." Harvard Business School Case 813-190, June 2013. (Revised February 2014.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-154, February 2013. View Details
  • 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. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-087, January 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Launching Global Ventures: Business Models ." Harvard Business School Module Note 813-161, March 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Launching Global Ventures: Location Choices ." Harvard Business School Module Note 813-160, March 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and David Lane. "ReSource Pro (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-137, January 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Start-Up Chile: April 2012 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 813-167, March 2013. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Magnus Thor Torfason, and Alexis Brownell. "Blink Booking." Harvard Business School Case 813-121, December 2012. View Details
  • Nanda, Ramana, William R. Kerr, and Robert F. White. "Convertible Notes in Seed Financings." Harvard Business School Background Note 813-017, September 2012. (Revised September 2016.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Alexis Brownell. "Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?" Harvard Business School Case 813-068, September 2012. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., and William R. Kerr. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 813-702, December 2012. View Details
  • 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.) View Details
  • Nanda, Ramana, and William R. Kerr. "PunchTab, Inc." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 812-141, June 2012. (Revised March 2015.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "PunchTab, Inc. Investor Presentation Deck." Harvard Business School Case 812-172, June 2012. (Revised June 2012.) View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, Dina D. Pomeranz, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Cintra Scott. "Start-Up Chile: April 2012." Harvard Business School Case 812-158, May 2012. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing New Ventures." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-093, March 2011. View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.) View Details
  • Nanda, Ramana, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL." Harvard Business School Case 812-008, October 2011. (Revised August 2012.) View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Ryan Johnson. "Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 811-098, April 2011. (Revised June 2011.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 811-109, June 2011. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-036, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-106, May 2011. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Pitching Business Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-086, March 2011. View Details
  • Nanda, Ramana, William R. Kerr, and Lauren Barley. "PunchTab, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 812-033, October 2011. (Revised August 2017.) View Details
  • Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, Elisabeth Koll, and David Lane. "ReSource Pro." Harvard Business School Case 812-031, December 2011. (Revised May 2014.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-131, March 2009. (Revised June 2011.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Cherrypicks." Harvard Business School Case 807-106, March 2007. (Revised March 2009.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Cherrypicks (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 808-065, September 2007. (Revised March 2009.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network." Harvard Business School Background Note 808-029, August 2007. (Revised July 2008.) (Featured in a 2008 Harvard Business Review write-up.) View Details
Other Publications and Materials
  • Porter, Michael E., Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, William R. Kerr, and Manjari Raman. "A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, December 2019. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-006, May 2007. (Permanent working paper describing ethnic-name patenting data, revised December 2008.) View Details
  • Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-090, April 2012. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Higher Order Moments of Establishment Employments." United States, Bureau of the Census Technical Paper , U.S. Bureau of the Census, January 2007. View Details
  • Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "The Impact of the SIC-NAICS Conversion on Industrial Organization Metrics: Evidence Building from Establishment Data." United States, Bureau of the Census Technical Paper , U.S. Bureau of the Census, January 2006. View Details
  • Kerr, William R., and Shihe Fu. "The RAD-Patent-LRD Mapping Project." United States, Bureau of the Census Technical Paper , U.S. Bureau of the Census, January 2006. (Summary version published in The Journal of Technology Transfer.) View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "The Role of Immigrant Scientists and Entrepreneurs in International Technology Transfer." Diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2005. View Details
  • Kerr, William R. "Limits on Interest Rate Rules in Macroeconomic Models Governed by Price Stickiness and Rational Expectations." Thesis, University of Virginia, 1996. View Details
Research Summary
Working papers

Released working papers are provided under the "Publications" tab

Examples of current projects
  • Entrepreneurship, innovation and growth
  • Transformations for profitable growth
  • Corporate innovation and venturing
  • High-skilled immigration and the structure of US firms
  • Agglomeration forces and cluster structure
  • Global on-line labor markets 
Research pages
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Teaching
Launching New Ventures—Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners (Executive Education)
Starting up a new venture amid rapid change is fraught with challenges. Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new business line, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a small-to-midsize company, this program provides a new perspective and core skills that you can immediately put to use. Topics include—identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial opportunities; turning a viable opportunity into a focused strategy and well-defined business initiative; developing an effective business plan; creating "pitches" to sell the idea to investors, customers, partners, and key employees; attracting the top talent and vital resources required to turn a vision into reality; building the organization and capabilities needed to launch and nurture early-stage ventures; evolving the strategy, organization, and leadership model as the business grows; and recognizing and managing risk, while creating and measuring value. LNV shows you how to build a successful business by turning disruptive innovation into a competitive advantage. (http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/LNV/Pages/default.aspx)
Awards & Honors
2020 Swedish Schumpeter Lecture at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.
Winner of the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal in the International Business/Globalization category for The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society (Stanford University Press, 2018)
Included in the 2019 Thinkers50 On the Radar list—a list of "emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice."
Winner of the 2013 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship.
Winner of the 2012 FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.
Winner of the 2010-2011 H. Gregg Lewis Prize from the Journal of Labor Economics for his paper with William F. Lincoln “The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Innovation” (July 2010).
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  • corporate entrepreneurship
  • entrepreneurship
  • globalization
  • innovation
  • international business
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  • corporate venturing
  • diasporas
  • disruptive technology
  • economics
  • entrepreneurial finance
  • entrepreneurial management
  • global collaboration
  • growth management
  • industry evolution
  • industry structure
  • information technology
  • intellectual property
  • international entrepreneurial finance
  • international entrepreneurship
  • invention
  • managing growth
  • managing innovation
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  • technology strategy
  • venture capital
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