In Brief: Notes on Research at Tuck
Playing With Bias {media1}Say you’re an up-and-coming professional golfer and you want to climb the ranks of the sport as quickly as possible. What’s your strategy? Sure, lots of practice will help....
View ArticleThe Psychology of Strategy
Now, that might seem like an obvious strategy—indeed it’s how most banks today are run. But in the elitist banking system of the 1930s, it was revolutionary. “When something becomes obvious, people...
View ArticleTuck Students’ Software Startup Wins $25,000 Prize in Entrepreneurship...
{media1}Their company, InstantInsight, provides mobile phone-based surveys that allow retailers to gather instant feedback from customers. The winning team was affiliated with Tuck’s Barris Incubator...
View ArticleTuck Pride and Tuck News Hour Hosted Guest Speakers
Conversation with Marc Solomon {media2}Tuck Pride and Tuck News Hour presented a conversation with Marc Solomon, a leader of the marriage equality movement in the United States, on Wednesday, May 1....
View ArticleTuck Annual Giving Participation Challenge
Spring Blooms, a TAG Challenge Looms This spring brings a compelling reason to renew your commitment to Tuck: the TAG Participation Challenge. A generous alumnus has offered $50,000 to TAG if 2,000...
View ArticleBrand Champion
Kevin Lane Keller likes to joke about his “so-called spare time.” After having chaired Tuck’s marketing group, Keller, the E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, was recently appointed to a two-year term...
View ArticlePatagonia Marketing VP Answers Students’ Questions About Corporate...
{media1}Forty-one years ago, Patagonia was a small business in Ventura, Ca. that was deeply inspired by wilderness, making steel pitons that climbers used to ascend sheer rock faces. But when climbing...
View ArticleA Particle Theory of Social Media
{media1}Yaniv Dover has not one, but two Ph.D.s. One is in marketing. The other? Physics. To Dover, an assistant professor of business administration at Tuck, it’s a natural connection. The same...
View ArticleStudent Group Focuses on Business Environment for Gays and Lesbians
{media1}With the U.S. Supreme Court considering a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of same-sex marriage, students at the Tuck School of Business recently...
View ArticleTuck Takes on TAG Participation Challenge Through May 31
This spring brings a compelling reason to renew your commitment to Tuck: the TAG Participation Challenge. {media1}A generous alumnus has offered $50,000 to TAG if 2,000 donors contribute by May 31. The...
View ArticleAre Advances in Communication Driving Jobs Overseas?
For the past 30 years, we’ve taken it for granted that major companies have globalized their production and fragmented their supply networks to far-flung corners of the world in search of the best...
View ArticleA New Measure of Government Efficiency: The Post Office
Most poor countries are badly governed. Economists and political scientists have long debated why this is the case. Some argue that governance is worse in poor countries because they tend to be...
View ArticleLatin America Week Highlights Tuck’s Global View
Before coming to Tuck, Venezuelan-born Henrique Thielen T’13 spent six years as an industrial engineer at Cemex, a Mexico-based company that is the world’s seventh-largest cement producer. He came to...
View ArticleLatin America Week Highlights Tuck’s Global View
Before coming to Tuck, Venezuelan-born Henrique Thielen T’13 spent six years as an industrial engineer at Cemex, a Mexico-based company that is the world’s seventh-largest cement producer. He came to...
View ArticleTuck Faculty Members Recognized for Teaching Excellence
The path to graduation for every member of Tuck’s class of 2013 led through strategy and management professor Andrew King’s core Competitive and Corporate Strategy course. It turns out many students...
View ArticleNobel Laureate in Economics Talks Unemployment and Debt
The United States has a lot of problems, but none as dire as the country’s current “crisis” in unemployment, said Peter Diamond, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who visited Tuck May 15 to deliver a...
View ArticleFor Fallen Brand Leaders, an Uphill Climb
Business history is littered with the remains of fallen giants. Yuban coffee, Fels Naptha laundry soap, Bobbie Brooks, Zenith, Kodak—all these brands were leaders in their time, and then something...
View ArticleIt’s Been a Long Time Since I Rock and Rolled
The Nikkei stock index has risen about 60 percent in the past six months. Even Japanese music is focusing on the upswing: a new rock band in Tokyo has its members promising to adjust their skirt...
View ArticleGoogle CFO Pichette Urges Tuck Students to Show Career Audacity
Most companies think of progress in terms of making one of their existing products better. Getting a 10 to 15 percent improvement is difficult and often constitutes success. Not so at Google Inc., says...
View Article2013 Tuck Investiture Ceremony
{media1} At age 19, Zdenek Bakala T’89 spent months in a refugee camp before coming to America with little more than a greasy $50 bill in his wallet—money he converted on the black market and hid in a...
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