Following the Leader
Professor Sydney Finkelstein—appropriately tagged #coffee crazy in his Twitter profile—is a very, very busy man. Teaching core and elective MBA courses, directing Tuck Executive Education programs, and...
View ArticleFacing a Sobering Fiscal Future, with a Smile
In the world of Winnie the Pooh, the high-bouncing character Tigger approaches even the most daunting challenges with exuberance and optimism. “We’re going to talk about fiscal policy in the U.S. so I...
View ArticleCollette Chilton T’86: Invested in the Mission
Collette Chilton T’86 was managing $50 billion in pension funds for telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies when she got the call. Williams College, the “Little Ivy” located in the hilly...
View ArticleDo Managers Cut Investment When They Plan to Sell Stock?
Running a company these days isn’t what it used to be. With the advent of globalization and offshoring in the 20th century, firms competed in large part by cost-cutting and improving the efficiency of...
View ArticleTuck Students Attend Global Climate Change Conference
In the wake of the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, many world leaders have called attention to an increasingly pressing global issue: climate change. “Climate change is not...
View ArticleHow to Get a Job in Consulting
Stephen Pidgeon T’07 has seen the consulting recruiting process from all sides. First as a Tuck MBA student, then as a McKinsey & Co. consultant vetting new recruits, and now as associate director...
View ArticleMBAs and the Business of Climate Change
For the fourth time in five years, a student delegation from Tuck attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as The Conference of the Parties (COP19). T’14s Harrison Kahn,...
View ArticleKopalle Receives Marketing Research Award
The Journal of Retailing announced recently that its 2014 Davidson Award, for the best paper published in the journal in 2012, went to Tuck Professor of Marketing Praveen Kopalle and co-authors P.K....
View ArticleTuck Students Prepare to Launch Food Truck
Hanover, with its well-defined Main Street abutting a spacious quad and ivy-covered buildings, has everything you’d expect in a college town: restaurants, bars, coffee shops, pizza joints, bookstores....
View ArticleWhen Retailers Do Good, Are Consumers More Loyal?
It’s easy to like the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR), that broad term which encompasses business efforts toward environmental sustainability, community support, and good labor practices....
View ArticleWhen Retailers Do Good, Are Consumers More Loyal?
It’s easy to like the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR), that broad term which encompasses business efforts toward environmental sustainability, community support, and good labor practices....
View ArticleThe Future of Everything
THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Dean Paul Danos {media1}Technology is rapidly transforming the way we live and do business. The same tools that make possible a truly global economy also allow educators...
View ArticleHow Italian Chefs Share Knowledge
Knowledge, as the saying goes, is power. In business, the power of knowledge is in its ability to deliver value to the customer, something that can make a company profitable while setting it apart from...
View ArticleRethinking Retail in a Multichannel World
For many businesses, their online and brick-and-mortar channels co-exist warily at best and competitively at worst. Although separating each channel may seem tempting and even prudent, drawing...
View ArticleTuck Contributes to Global Forum on Health and Healthcare
Good health care is a desire shared globally but achieved locally, and approaches to it vary significantly from country to country. And yet, the same challenges exist everywhere: controlling costs,...
View ArticleTest Driving Tuck at Annual Diversity Conference
Ryan Golden T’15 had never lived outside her home town of Atlanta, Ga. until she moved to Tuck in the summer of 2013. The drive from the Peach State to Hanover is 17 hours and it crosses the...
View ArticleTuck Students Participate in World Premier of Big Data Simulation
On a recent Thursday afternoon at Tuck, teams of four or five second-year students sat at tables and imagined they were managing competing German wholesale dairy-product companies. On their laptops...
View ArticleThe Art of Entrepreneurship
The road Ashley Conti T’13 and her teammates took to winning last year’s Dartmouth Ventures entrepreneurship contest started on a whiteboard. Nearly two years prior, the team had stayed up late...
View ArticleOn MLK Day, A Forum of Change and Discovery
Sumeeta Kumar went to Ghana on a mission. The second-year Tuck student was there as part of a First-Year Project team helping global e-literacy nonprofit Worldreader launch a new mobile app to reach...
View ArticleCurt Welling D’71, T’77 Joins Tuck as Senior Fellow
Former AmeriCares president and CEO Curt Welling D’71, T’77 has joined Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business as a senior fellow in its Center for Global Business and Government and the Center for...
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