I recently went to the NBER IT & Digitization Summer Institute. I was there to do a poster session on the new ridesharing bias paper I am working on with Jorge Mejia. We also wrote …
For a couple weeks in May/June I’ll be traveling with a group of students to a small community outside of Cochabamba, Bolivia. We’ll (they’ll?) be building a bridge to make travel to/from the community easier …
In my visit to Georgetown this year I’ve been tasked with teaching two six-week MBA electives in the Spring. I’ve been toying with the idea of offering a data visualization course since I think it’s …
I’ve been interested in start-ups for a while now. So when my friend forwarded me an email several days ago with a link to an application for becoming an advisor for the Harvard Innovation Lab I …
Can the stock market make the funding of nonprofits more efficient? Talk about a heavy question, especially since the public still doesn’t think too highly of big banks (if you don’t believe me check out …
Toyota offered operational consulting rather than a blank check to an NYC food bank. This is the definition of sustainable operational improvement and the results are staggering. One paragraph sums up the results: At a soup …
How do you know whether to loan someone money? Many banks rely on traditional credit scores that latch onto historical data, such as on-time credit card payments, utility payments, etc., in the hopes that an …
Anyone who does supply chain management, and especially those who do humanitarian logistics, know that shipping water is an expensive but necessary task. Large groups of people congregate in make-shift villages in the aftermath of …
This is quite possibly the coolest idea I’ve seen in a long time. Some Android mobile phones now have atmospheric sensors to help pinpoint a user’s location. Atmospheric scientists are putting this to use to …
One of the big problems people living in rural communities face is the difficulty/expense of access to health professionals. Often when a child gets ill a family member must take time off work and buy …