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It all started when Carolyn McGuire T’83 opened her mailbox to find a letter from Tuck. As she read it, she learned that a new group of graduates from top business schools was forming in the Boston...
View ArticleLiam Kerr T’12 Outlines Problems and Opportunities in Education
Liam Kerr T’12 grew up in a Boston suburb and thought the K-12 education system in America was pretty good. Based on his experience, grade school and high school were, if not exemplary, at least...
View ArticleInterlinking Business and Society - a Challenge for Business Schools around...
A growing population, increasing shortages of resources, and national economies that are highly in debt – the world is facing enormous challenges over the coming decades. Business is going to play a...
View ArticleCOP18 and the Business of Climate Change
For the third time, finance professor Anant Sundaram is leading a group of students to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This year’s conference, COP18, is taking place in Doha, Qatar from...
View ArticleGetting On with Governments, Globally
It was early 2009, and the global financial markets were teetering. Zachary Segal D’98, T’06, moved from San Francisco, Calif., to Washington, DC, to work at the center of the fray: the Treasury...
View ArticleManaging the FBI
Sean Joyce was gripping the side of a sailboat bobbing off the Caribbean island of Bonaire when a plane appeared out of the dusk. Buzzing overhead, the aircraft swooped down and dropped a series of...
View ArticleCore to Corporate
Most Tuck alums know Professor Steve Powell as their Decision Science professor from their first year at Tuck. But current students and recent alums also know him in his capacity as faculty director of...
View ArticleTuck Team Triumphs in 2012 Bankruptcy Restructuring Competition
A team of students from the Tuck School of Business won the ninth annual American Bankruptcy Institute Corporate Restructuring Competition, held earlier this month in Philadelphia. First-year students...
View ArticleHow Should the U.S. Compete With China? Reinvent American Capitalism and End...
{media1}During one of Richard D’Aveni’s recent research trips to China, a senior official of the Communist Party gave him an alarming insight into his nation’s way of thinking about business with...
View ArticleAlumni Interview: Andy Mims T’02
{media1}Employing an efficiency-first model that came from, among other sources, his 92-year-old grandmother, Mims adopted a common-sense approach that included capital improvements, operational...
View ArticleTuck Entrepreneurs Make Their Pitch
“We got tired of answering questions about Mt. Kilamanjaro and the Carter administration and decided it would be a lot more fun if it was about our shared memories,” says Pingree. Thus was born the...
View ArticleTuck Students Top Field in 2012 UBS Case Competition
A team of students from the Tuck School of Business took the top prize of $10,000 in the fifth annual UBS Investment Banking Case Competition, held earlier this month at the Zurich-based bank’s U.S....
View ArticleHow Should the U.S. Compete With China? Reinvent American Capitalism and End...
{media1}During one of Richard D’Aveni’s recent research trips to China, a senior official of the Communist Party gave him an alarming insight into his nation’s way of thinking about business with...
View ArticleInaugural Forum focuses on corporate governance and leadership in a global world
A growing population, increasing shortages of resources, and national economies that are heavily in debt – the world is facing enormous challenges over the coming decades. Business is going to play a...
View ArticleIn with the New?
That’s the question Ron Adner, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck, examines in new research on technological substitution. “When we think about the challenge of innovation, we tend to...
View ArticleTruth in Barcodes
It’s a problem that has long bedeviled health research on issues ranging from diet to exercise to smoking. And it’s not just that we have faulty memories. Many of us stretch the truth to make ourselves...
View ArticleAlong for the Ride
But Andrew Bernard, Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics at Tuck, recently thought to ask another question of manufacturer/exporters: Of all the products you are exporting, how many of them...
View ArticleFakery of the Crowds
In reality, however, it’s tough to answer. That’s because “promotional” reviews—those designed not to rate an experience or a product, but slyly burnish your own brand or deface a competitor’s—are not...
View ArticleProject Coffee Adds Perk to Stell Hall
{media1}Tuck’s bucolic campus, he noticed, was a java-lover’s desert. The school’s Byrne Hall was the only option for a cup of joe within a quarter-mile of the school. “It takes about 15 minutes to...
View ArticleBringing Macs Back to the U.S.
{media1}The answer was not what Obama wanted to hear. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs said. Fast forward to early December of 2012. Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, appeared to soften Jobs’ unequivocal...
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