Former Senate Budget Chairman Optimistic About Debt Reduction Deal Prospects
{media1}That was the message of Judd Gregg, a Republican and former Senate Budget Committee chairman in an address to Tuck School of Business students April 9. U.S. debt averaged less than 50 percent...
View ArticleAnne-Marie Slaughter Speaks to a Private Tuck Audience
{media1}Slaughter, who visited Dartmouth and Tuck recently as part of the Leading Voices in Higher Education Speaker Series, assumed the article would resonate with a small population of women in the...
View ArticleTuck GIVES Raises $60,000 in Support of Nonprofit and Public Service Internships
{media1}Thanks to this year’s Tuck GIVES program, which raised an estimated $60,000 in support of MBA students working at nonprofits and public service internships, more Tuck students will get to have...
View ArticleTuck Student Wins Top Prize in Public Relations Case Competition
Tuck School of Business student Jonathan J. Gantt T’13 was awarded a top prize in the Arthur W. Page Society’s 2013 Corporate Communications Case Study Competition for his narrative of Carnival Corp.’s...
View ArticleFormer N.H. Governor Sees Leadership Parallels Between Government and Business
{media1}There are many obvious differences between running a government and a business. Yet success in both jobs was contingent on a number of the same factors, Lynch told a gathering of Tuck School of...
View ArticleTuck Associate Dean M. Eric Johnson Named Dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate...
M. Eric Johnson, Tuck’s associate dean for the MBA program, has been named the new dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. He will begin work in Nashville July 1, pending approval by...
View ArticlePrices and Memory: Leave It to Intuition
Researchers have long known that people can intuit whether the magnitude of a number is larger or smaller than one previously encountered without explicitly recalling the first number. Now there is...
View ArticleIn 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
{media1}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,...
View ArticleTake This Course
Seminar on Hedge Funds Taught by: Rafael La Porta, Nobel Foundation Professor of Finance Class size: 14 Highlight: Final presentation at Lone Pine Capital Suggested Reading: Expected Returns: An...
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 to Host Guest Speakers on May 1
Conversation with Marc Solomon {media2}Tuck Pride and Tuck News Hour will present 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 ArticleFormer N.H. Governor Sees Leadership Parallels Between Government and Business
{media1}There are many obvious differences between running a government and a business. Yet success in both jobs was contingent on a number of the same factors, Lynch told a gathering of Tuck School of...
View ArticleTuck Associate Dean M. Eric Johnson Named Dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate...
M. Eric Johnson, Tuck’s associate dean for the MBA program, has been named the new dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. He will begin work in Nashville July 1, pending approval by...
View ArticleNew Latitudes
It’s mid-February and Blair LaCorte T’90 has had an interesting week. He went to the Grammys, hung out with Sting and Bruce Springsteen, attended several board meetings, and left his job as CEO of...
View ArticleMaking New Products Feel Familiar
Many in business have a sense of the financial, market, and organizational issues startups face in getting launched. Less well known is the cognitive challenge they confront in introducing themselves...
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...
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