Rakeen Tanvir
I am a PhD student in the Strategy Department at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. I draw on strategic management and economics to identify strategies that improve innovative and entrepreneurial performance.
Research
I study strategy—how firms’ choices shape their outcomes—with a focus on:
- Science and innovation: how firms create and use new ideas
- Entrepreneurship: startups, small firms, and their founders
- Labor automation: how AI and new technology change work
With Christopher F. Eaglin, I study informal governance and resilience in the South African taxi industry. In separate work with Manuel González-Astudillo (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), I study how the Federal Reserve’s “dot plot” can be used to infer intended monetary policy responses to inflation and economic activity.
More broadly, my interests span strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship, economic history, science and technology, and the economics of AI and automation.
“The Cost of Flexibility: Informal Governance and Resilience in the Minibus Taxi Industry in South Africa.”
Background
Before starting my PhD, I was a Research Assistant in Macroeconomics & Quantitative Studies at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and earlier spent several years in industry, including at MathWorks. I hold a B.A. in Psychology from Boston College.
CV & links
See my CV or find me on Google Scholar.