Tag: Internet

• January 1, 2019

  Digitization and Divergence: School Ratings and Segregation in America

  Working Paper (November, 2018) (with Anuj Kumar) We analyze whether widespread online access to school quality information affected economic and social segregation in America. We leverage the staged roll-out of GreatSchools.org school ratings across America from 2006-2015 to answer this question. Across a range of outcomes and specifications, we find that the mass availability of…
• September 20, 2018

  iSPIRT: M&A Connect (Part A)

  Stanford GSB Cases (with Sarah Rosenthal) Part A of the case describes the founding of the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRT, pronounced “ispirit”), a nonprofit organization formed in 2012 by a small group of Indian entrepreneurs and technology professionals who believed that India’s tremendous engineering talent could be harnessed to transition the country from…
• September 19, 2018

  iSPIRT: M&A Connect (Part B)

  Stanford GSB Case Study (with Sarah Rosenthal) Part B explores the launch of M&A Connect, a one-man initiative led by Sanat Rao, to serve as a matchmaker between viable, high-potential Indian startups and U.S.-based acquirers such as Google, AutoDesk, and Intel.  Students learn how Rao approached the challenge of finding inroads into the corporate development…