In his latest VPR interview, John Vogel compares South Korea’s loss of manufacturing jobs and housing system to the United States. Vogel notes that while it’s unlikely that South Korea’s housing system would work in the U.S., examining their tax code is a good reminder of the unpredictable outcomes of tax reform.
Jan 24, 2017Lists Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan, as one of the top thought-provoking books for business education students.
Jan 24, 2017As a guest on "All Things Considered," Dean Matthew Slaughter discusses President Trump’s inaugural address. Trump’s remarks suggest he’ll break from the tradition of taking a broad view of U.S. national interests. "There was clearly enlightened self-interest. It was to help make our country more secure, and it was to help grow good jobs at good wages," says Slaughter.
Jan 23, 2017Two historic speeches, President Trump’s inauguration address and Chinese president Xi Jinping’s World Economic Forum address, could not have been starker in contrast.
Jan 23, 2017In his latest piece for "Syd Weighs In," Sydney Finkelstein discusses how the World Economic Forum has little to do with resolving the world’s problems or progress—it’s the ordinary, everyday people who make the difference. “So forgive me for not being impressed with the people at Davos,” writes Finkelstein. “They are acting in a complex play, being seen in the practice of helping the world be a better place. But the people I encounter every day, they aren’t acting. They’re doing. And I’ll take doing over acting every day of the week.”
Jan 18, 2017Tuck Professor Dirk Black and USC professor Marshall Vance examine how managers trade off first impressions of employee ability versus observed performance when making promotion decisions.
Jan 16, 2017Leonard Greenhalgh, a Tuck professor for 38 years and a pioneer of executive education programs for minority and Native American business owners, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Dartmouth College.
Jan 12, 2017Quotes Dean Matthew Slaughter in an article about how robots are coming, but the implementation of automation in the workplace will displace jobs more gradually than forecasts suggest. "We have more time than we think to adjust to the world that technology makes possible," says Slaughter.
Jan 12, 2017Quotes Matthew Shofnos T’16 about Alibaba’s new, yearlong immersion program in Chinese business, language and the company’s culture. The program aims to produce China-trained, globally minded leaders able to make and manage partnerships with Western retailers. “Earlier in his career, he realized that being ‘an American company’s China guy’ wasn’t going to happen, thanks to lackluster Mandarin skills,” writes The Wall Street Journal. “With Alibaba, he said, ‘I can absolutely be a Chinese company’s American guy.’”
Jan 10, 2017As a guest on "Here and Now," Dean Matthew Slaughter discusses the power the president has to move markets. “The power is substantial. The president is the commander in chief, and is, in some broad sense, the chief economic policy leader of the United States. When he or she speaks, if it's relevant to a particular company or a particular industry, markets, historically, can move and have moved quite a bit," says Slaughter.
Jan 02, 2017Quotes Kenneth French on why individuals looking to balance their mutual fund portfolios should choose index funds over active ones. “You should expect to lose. It’s really hard to identify the great managers,” argues French about selecting active funds. “You are wasting your time and money trying to beat the market.”
Dec 27, 2016An opinion piece co-authored by Vijay Govindarajan explains why launching new business opportunities in key Indian industries will require companies to have a mobile-first strategy and implement 4G technology.
Dec 23, 2016References an economic model by Emily Blanchard and co-authors Robert C. Johnson of Dartmouth's economics department and Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in an article about the economic relationships the U.S. has with China and Mexico. Blanchard and her co-authors “estimate that about 11 percent of the value of goods manufactured in Mexico come from American-made inputs. With automobiles, the figure is 14 percent. With electrical equipment, it rises to 19 percent. For China, the numbers are a lot lower — about 2 percent on average,” writes The Washington Post.
Dec 19, 2016An opinion piece by Dean Matthew Slaughter about how President-elect Donald Trump's assumption that immigrants damage, rather than enhance, the prospects for U.S. workers couldn't be further from the truth. "Skilled immigrants tend to complement, not substitute for, native-born workers in U.S. companies," says Slaughter. "A recent ambitious study of hundreds of America's most innovative companies found that when these U.S. companies hire more skilled immigrants, their employment of native-born skilled workers rises as well."
Dec 19, 2016The end-of-year holidays are now upon us. In many parts of the world, in the days ahead children and adults alike will relish in giving and receiving gifts.
Dec 19, 2016Highlights the three-factor model of investment returns that was introduced by Kenneth French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance, and his colleague Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize–winning University of Chicago economist, in an article that discusses when it’s time to retire a theory.
Dec 14, 2016In his latest piece for "Syd Weighs In," Sydney Finkelstein examines the consequences of living in a world that is curated by the use of algorithms. "As the new year approaches, think of it this way: As algorithms and artificial intelligence become better at predicting our needs and narrowing our focus, our ability to adapt and keep learning new things may become crucial to our value as people—in business and in life," writes Finkelstein.
Dec 13, 2016As a guest on Bloomberg’s “What’d You Miss?,” Peter Fisher, senior lecturer and senior fellow at the Center for Business, Government & Society, discusses the outlook for the Fed and the timing of the Fed rate hikes in 2017, the importance of monetary policy to investors, the impact of political risk on the markets, and the outlook for Japan's economy. "The fed is going to have to reflect that the economy is a littler firmer than it was in September, the labor market is a little tighter, and the inflation measures have moved a little further,” says Fisher.
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