More and more companies are using innovation ecosystems to bring better products to market. But Ron Adner, Associate Professor of Business Administration, says all of this collaboration comes at a cost.
Mar 23, 2011How will the uprising in Libya affect global oil prices? Dirk Vandewalle, adjunct associate professor of business administration, weighs in.
Mar 18, 2011Kemp was Tuck’s first African American graduate and a pioneer in the advertising industry. He passed away on March 5.
Mar 16, 2011The PGA Tour's FedEx Cup has been criticized for its overly complicated points system. But new research by professor Rendleman suggests organizers have it right.
Mar 04, 2011Mortgage renegotiation has done little to stem the tide of preventable home foreclosures in the United States.
Jan 24, 2011Andrew Bernard makes the case that big, productive exporters—not entrepreneurial newcomers—hold the key to U.S. export growth.
Jan 04, 2011Richard Sansing does the math and shows that tax deductions for R&D may only break even for U.S. taxpayers.
Jan 03, 2011The way consumers remember negative events can affect how distant they feel from them and how likely they are to assign blame to those involved.
Dec 22, 2010Judith White says identifying with a strong role model leads to more inspired leadership.
Dec 21, 2010Professors Jonathan Lewellen and Katharina Lewellen take a more nuanced look at corporate cash flow and investment—and find a strong correlation.
Dec 15, 2010A delegation from Tuck recently attended the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, known as COP16, in Mexico.
Dec 13, 2010Markets may hate uncertainty, but traditional earnings volatility measurements, which allow investors get a better handle on risk, aren’t helping to clear things up.
Dec 09, 2010In July, the federal government pushed through an unprecedented package of reforms to prevent another financial crisis. But will they work?
Nov 29, 2010In the 1960s, Tuck underwent a shift every bit as significant as the monumental societal changes playing out on college campuses across the country. We just didn't realize it at the time.
Nov 28, 2010For the last six months, faculty teams from Tuck and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) have been taking part in an intensive series of seminars in preparation for Dartmouth’s new Master of Health Care Delivery Science program.
Nov 25, 2010Professor Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell surveys the new corporate playing field for women.
Nov 19, 2010It’s one of the many paradoxes of Nepal. Less than 40 percent of the country’s 27 million people have access to electricity, yet the nation possesses the resources to generate an estimated 40 times current electrical demand there. For Antonio Del Valle T’11, it was this dichotomy that drew him to the impoverished south Asian nation on a Tuck GIVES-sponsored summer internship.
Nov 19, 2010In November 2011, Richard Smith T’11 plans to spend some 70 days on the world’s most inhospitable continent, pulling a 100-pound sled 600 miles by ski from the west side of the Foundation Ice Stream to the South Pole. It’s all part of an expedition called Polar Vision.
Nov 18, 2010At LinkedIn, Leela Srinivasan T'06 is helping corporate recruiters find top talent.
Nov 16, 2010The New York-based Brooklyn Distilling Company, launched by Joe Santos T'00, recently debuted its first offering, Brooklyn Gin.
Nov 16, 2010There’s no silver lining to a disaster as shocking and immense as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But as with any major mistake by a corporation, says management professor Sydney Finkelstein, there are many lessons to be learned in its wake.
Nov 02, 2010An environmentalist who had been working in land-conservation issues, Katherine Birnie T’07 wanted to attend business school to learn management skills and better understand the competing interests around land use. Tuck set her on a new career path. “It was incredibly valuable to explore how sustainability gets put into practice in the business world.”
Oct 18, 2010In The Other Side of Innovation, Tuck faculty members Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble offer organizations a model for making innovation happen.
Sep 30, 2010As CEO of Gyrobike, makers of a Dartmouth-originated technology, Daniella Reichstetter T’07 is taking her passion for cycling to the next level.
Sep 28, 2010Tuck's Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship has expanded students' career horizons, collaborated with nonprofits, and helped bring issues at the nexus of business and society into the classroom.
Sep 24, 2010Criticism of MBA programs is almost as old as graduate business education itself. But in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, it has also led to a more meaningful debate over what business schools need to teach.
Sep 22, 2010Espen Eckbo finds that, contrary to assumptions and biases, putting bankrupt companies on the auction block is more efficient than Chapter 11.
Sep 21, 2010Paul Argenti envisions a new role for corporate communications following an epic collapse of trust and the rise of social media.
Sep 21, 2010Tuck's Investing in Excellence Campaign reached its successful conclusion on December 31st, 2009. Thank you to all our alumni and friends.
Sep 20, 2010Punam Anand Keller uses social marketing research to devise a better—and less costly—way to persuade people to save for retirement.
Sep 20, 2010Karl Diether has studied the uptick rule and finds that its effects on liquidity and volatility are small and best viewed as distortions caused by the rule itself.
Sep 19, 2010Tuck’s Broehl/Hornsby Social Innovation Fund sponsored a First-Year Project in which a group of students traveled to Nicaragua to assist in an effort to improve food security for the farmers.
Sep 19, 2010Brian Tomlin explores how companies can manage risks lurking in their supply chains and discovers that the nature of the risk matters.
Sep 17, 2010Peter Golder’s study of brand persistence shows that a recession may be a top brand’s best friend.
Sep 16, 2010Assistant Professor Y. Jackie Luan has developed an econometric model to help film studios find balance—and maximum revenue—as theaters and DVDs fight it out.
Sep 16, 2010Investor behavior has long been at odds with investor wisdom. Most investors chase potential profits by actively buying and selling stocks—or by hiring someone else to do it for them—although trading costs and management fees significantly reduce their net returns. New research by Tuck Professor Kenneth R. French quantifies the costs of such active investing and provides strong evidence that a passive approach is better for most investors.
Sep 13, 2010