Abhishek Nagaraj

Education

• SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
  
• MBA, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2010
  
• Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, College of Engg. Pune, 2008
  

Positions Held

• At Haas since 2016
  
• 2016 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
  
• 2016 – 2017, Postdoctoral Fellow in Digitization, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  

Current Research and Interests

• The impact of digital maps on decision-making and innovation
• Copyright law and intellectual property in digital environments
• The role of publicly-provided knowledge on private-sector innovation
• Digitization and big data of geographic knowledge
• Entrepreneurship Strategy

Selected Papers and Publications

• Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from the Google Books Digitization Project (Management Science)
• The Private Impact of Public Maps— Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration (Working Paper)
• Do Wiki-pages have parents? An article-level inquiry into Wikipedia’s inequalities (with P. Seetharaman, R.Roy and A. Dutta) — Workshop on Information Technology Systems (WITS), 2009

Honors and Awards

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Fellowship, 2014
• NESTA Innovation Grant, 2014
• J. Roberts Beyster Fellowship, 2014
• Sloan Foundation Research Grant, 2014
• Kauffman Prize, Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research 2015

Skills

• Strategy
• Algorithms
• C++