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The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap

By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman

Building From the Bottom Up

By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman

Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines

Building the On-Demand Workforce

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, & Sibley Lovett
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  • January 2023
  • Article
  • Journal of Human Resources

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...
  • 10 May 2022
  • News
  • HBS Working Knowledge

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

Re: William Kerr
Working for yourself might bring freedom and autonomy, but it increasingly comes with a major risk: low pay. Research by William Kerr explores the shifting sands of self-employment.
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • News
  • HBS Working Knowledge

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Re: William Kerr
Software invention spurred the rapid ascent of six American tech hubs, helping them draw talent from even larger cities. Will the rise of remote work shake the status quo? Research by William Kerr.
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • News
  • Harvard Business Review

The Great Resignation Didn’t Start with the Pandemic

By: Joseph Fuller & William Kerr
Covid-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit...
  • 2022
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review (website)

The Great Resignation Didn't Start with the Pandemic

By: Joseph B. Fuller and William R. Kerr
COVID-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit...
  • March 2022
  • Teaching Material

The Labor Market as COVID Recedes: A Great Resignation or a Great Realization?

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr and Ria Mazumdar
  • March 2022
  • Article
  • Research Policy

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...
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review

Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace

By: Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull and William Kerr
Is keeping pace with the future of work incompatible with using purpose to guide the organization? Unilever is stretching its well-known commitment to purpose for a new and daunting challenge—the transformation of its workforce of more than 149,000 employees. Its...
  • 2022
  • Book Chapter

Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups

By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
  • 23 Feb 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

MFW research: Rethinking low-wage work

  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Transformation of Self Employment

By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to...
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Hubert Joly on humanizing the profit motive

  • 1 Dec 2021
  • Presentation

Hubert Joly on Humanizing the Profit Motive

By: Hubert Joly, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
Can businesses afford to see employees in terms other than unit labor cost? How do you factor the Golden Rule into a profit and loss statement? Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly explains how unlearning business orthodoxies helped him prove that a human-centered approach...
  • 17 Nov 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Lisa Cook on why inclusion benefits the economy and economics 

  • 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...
  • 20 Oct 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Bringing hidden workers into focus

  • 06 Oct 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Slack’s Brian Elliott: Digital-first elevates output and diversity

  • September 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client

By: N. Louis Shipley and William R. Kerr
In May 2018, celebrated journalist Katie Couric and her husband, John Molner, had recently launched a full-service media firm called Katie Couric Media (KCM). Couric treasured the opportunity to address important social issues like gender equality, environmental...
  • 25 Aug 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Coursera: From virtual lecture hall to platform for lifelong learning

  • 28 Jul 2021
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Veeva’s distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture

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