Occupation Professor | ||
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Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Residence Lexington, Massachusetts, United States Books Innovation, Reallocation and Growth, Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations | ||
William R. Kerr is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he is faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program for executive education.
Kerr cowrote a 2015 report with Martin Mandorff for the National Bureau of Economic Research which analyzes tendencies among members of ethnic groups in the U.S. to gravitate towards specific professions, examples given include Yemeni immigrants being 75 times more likely than others to own grocery stores, and Koreans being 34 times more likely to operate dry cleaners.
Kerr collaborated on a 2015 paper with Daron Acemoğlu and Ufuk Akcigit which updated the real business-cycle theory.
In 2013, Kerr received the Ewing Marion Kauffman award for "Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship".
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