Barry P. Keating is the Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. Keating’s expertise is in business forecasting, experimental economics, economic regulation and not-for-profit organizations. Recent research has examined data mining and its use. Keating has written or co-authored 15 books, including a best-selling forecasting and data-mining textbook used in colleges and universities, and a microeconomics book for public managers. Keating has been awarded numerous honors for teaching and research, including the Kaneb Teaching Excellence Award, the PricewaterhouseCoopers E-Commerce Grant and he was voted the 2009 MBA Teacher of the Year. He has served as an editor of Social Science Quarterly and was a Salvatori Fellow of The Heritage Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Institute of Business Forecasting and the board of WorkOne Indiana.