Inara S. Tareque

I am a PhD candidate at Columbia Business School's Management Division (Macro Track). I study global migration, economic inclusion, and entrepreneurship. I employ computational techniques and hope to complement it with field experiments in the future to further uncover systemic, regional, and personal factors that shape entrepreneurial outcomes, strategy, and behavior.

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You can find my CV here.

Prior to joining Columbia Business School, I conducted research with the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) housed in Stanford Graduate School of Businesses. I collaborated closely with the GSB faculty to advance scholarship on U.S. Latino-owned ventures. Before SLEI, I performed research at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where my research intersected ecosystem development, venture financing, and diversity in entrepreneurship.

I also developed and performed data analysis for Inc. to calculate the Inc. Entrepreneurship Index, a timely measure of American entrepreneurship. Additionally, in collaboration with Startup Genome and Inc., I developed the Inc. Surge Cities index which ranks U.S. metropolitan areas for starting a business using seven key indicators.

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I completed my M.Phil from Columbia Business School, BA from Grinnell College with majors in Mathematics and Economics and a minor in Global Development Studies. My research has been covered in leading news outlets such as Time, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Inc. magazine.