“Typical” Consumers Need Not Apply
Praveen Kopalle’s research demonstrates that so-called “emergent consumers” can help create more appealing products.
Aug 24, 2010Praveen Kopalle’s research demonstrates that so-called “emergent consumers” can help create more appealing products.
Aug 24, 2010To function best, a "free market" requires the support of institutions. Without laws that provide for the enforcement of contracts, people are less likely to engage in trade, and beneficial exchanges go unrealized. Without a means to protect intellectual property, inventors fear to reveal their ideas and technological progress is suppressed.
Aug 24, 2010Katharina Lewellen and her colleagues find that managers are effective at identifying mispricing of their own securities and are willing to exploit it by selling or buying securities using the corporate account.
Aug 24, 2010Electronic medical records are in the news, with President Obama calling for the medical records of every American to be digitized by 2014, and the stimulus package providing $19 billion to make it happen.
Aug 24, 2010Forty years ago, economist William Sharpe rattled Wall Street when he balanced risks and rewards mathematically. At first seen as heretical and later as “commanding,” his capital asset pricing model (CAPM) earned him the Nobel prize in 1990. Succeeding generations of distinguished scholars have continued to tweak the model and debate it, among them Tuck Professor Jonathan Lewellen.
Aug 24, 2010Why are some firms more successful than others? How do firms differ and why does it matter? In strategy research, the issue of heterogeneity among firms is critical. If all firms were the same, and they all operated in a similar business context, they would all be equally successful. Since this isn't true, then either the firms themselves have to be different or the business context in which they operate must be.
Aug 24, 2010Richard D’Aveni and former Tuck professor Koen Pauwels have come up with a new method to uncover the nature and structural changes of competition in fast-changing markets.
Aug 19, 2010Kusum Ailawadi has run the numbers—lots of numbers—and discovered that the best defense is fine-tuned for individual stores and categories.
Aug 19, 2010The 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.
Aug 19, 2010The 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.
Aug 05, 2010State-of-the-art classrooms, student residences, and one very special "wow" space. Tuck's new buildings provide one of the best living and learning environments in the world.
Aug 01, 2010The foundation, which distributes more than $500,000 per year in grants to families affected by autism, was looking for a near-complete sponsorship package to pitch to corporations.
Jul 30, 2010Paul Argenti envisions a new role for corporate communications following an epic collapse of trust and the rise of social media.
Jul 21, 2010The 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
Jul 05, 2010In their new book, Stephen Powell and Bob Batt T’06 present an original approach to modeling ill-structured business problems.
Jul 01, 2010A new authentication technology, developed by a team from Thayer and Tuck, tells purchasers whether a drug is real or fake.
Jul 01, 2010Logic and experience are critical elements of good decision-making. But sometimes they can lull us into too-simple explanations.
Jun 20, 2010In 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.
Jun 10, 2010Three Tuck faculty members found themselves in an ongoing conversation about the future of financial regulation.
May 29, 2010When 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.
May 23, 2010Catching up with the triathlete, father of two, and president and founder of nuun, makers of a successful sports hydration drink.
May 20, 2010Many 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?
May 01, 2010By keeping a close eye on risks and exerting the discipline to pull back from fast-buck temptations, Williams built a loyal client base and ultimately trumped more speculative investors.
Jan 21, 2010Q&A with Professor Judith White.
Nov 22, 2009Research by Tuck marketing professor Punam Anand Keller looks into employee well-being programs and reveals surprising results about how we save.
Nov 19, 2009In Beating The Commodity Trap, Tuck Strategy Professor Richard D'Aveni offers firms a practical guide to managing the threat of commoditization.
Nov 10, 2009In an article for the Harvard Business Review, co-authored with GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt D'78 and Tuck professor Chris Trimble T'96, Govindarajan describes how GE is making the radical shift to a new model.
Oct 21, 2009Tuck's new Research-to-Practice Seminars let students in on the knowledge-creation process.
Jun 21, 2009Q&A with Professor Phillip Stocken. It's an old accounting joke: A man asks "How much is 2+2?" and his accountant says "What do you want it to be?" Corporate management has strategic choices to make about accounting policy in valuing companies.
Jun 15, 2009Professor Sydney Finkelstein discusses the science of decision making.
Jun 10, 2009