Faculty & Research

Faculty Expertise

  • Dinosaurs of the Retail Ecosystem Smartphones and e-commerce have changed the dynamics of bricks-and-mortar retailing. For professor Ron Adner, it’s an object lesson in reacting to innovation. More »
  • The Business Side From learning from our failures to building better financial systems, the reach and real-world impact of Tuck faculty research is profound—and it resonates far beyond the classroom. More »

Faculty Books

The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation

The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation

Ron Adner
Penguin Group, 2012

How can great companies do everything right—identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market—and still fail? In The Wide Lens, innovation expert Ron Adner draws on over a decade of research and field testing to reveal the hidden structure of success in a world of interdependence.

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First-Year Project: Real Business Challenges The FYP gives Tuck students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to complex business challenges for clients-ranging from early-stage startups to industry leaders. Recently, an FYP team helped build a bridal registry business for Simon Pearce.