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Think Outside of the Box (Store): Defending Against Walmart Kusum Ailawadi has run the numbers—lots of numbers—and discovered that the best defense is fine-tuned for individual stores and categories. More »

Private-Label Products in the Manufacturer-Retailer Power Balance The economy is in a major downturn, and supermarket prices for products ranging from milk and eggs to shampoo and laundry detergent are up 20 to 70 percent compared to a year ago. Just the kind of environment in which consumers tend to shift from national brands to significantly lower priced private labels, and at a time when private labels are already seeing a worldwide surge in availability and market share. More »

Honoring Bower: A Case Study in Faculty Support The Professor Richard S. Bower Finance, Economics, and Accounting Seminar Fund gives Tuck faculty members the opportunity to meet regularly in interactive sessions to share their current research, debate topics, and challenge each other's assumptions. More »

The Day After The financial crisis has led to seismic shifts in the ways companies do business. But with the recovery come new opportunities for those smart enough—and bold enough—to seize them. more More »

Finding Insight in Unsolvable Problems In their new book, Stephen Powell and Bob Batt T’06 present an original approach to modeling ill-structured business problems. More »

Management Myths and Practical Mistakes Logic and experience are critical elements of good decision-making. But sometimes they can lull us into too-simple explanations. More »

Research and the MBA In 2008, Peter Golder, then at NYU, and his coauthor, Debanjan Mitra, published, "Does Academic Research Help or Hurt MBA Programs?" in the Journal of Marketing. Their results showed that research did in fact benefit MBA programs. More »

Guerilla Communication Three Tuck faculty members found themselves in an ongoing conversation about the future of financial regulation. More »

The Doctor Is In When Professor Vijay Govindarajan accepted a two-year professor-in-residence position with General Electric in October 2007, he met with chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt D'78 to find out exactly what he would be doing. More »

Did Economists Really Fail Us? Many fault the economics profession for its failure to see the financial crisis coming. But was it really so obvious all along—and did it have to end so badly? More »