Knowledge in Practice: Research Insights from Tuck's Path-Breaking Faculty
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Feb 01, 2016New research from Scott Neslin shows how social contagion influences purchasing behavior.
Jan 26, 2016It is one of the most pressing issues facing companies, government agencies, and educational institutions: what are the most effective styles of leadership, and how can they be developed?
Jan 25, 2016Fresh off the death of the Doha Development Round, the World Trade Organization greets 2016 seeking renewed purpose. Here is one: assuage the drift left after last month’s global climate change conference in Paris (known as “COP21”) by forging a new free-trade deal—the Clean Technology Agreement.
Jan 18, 2016Optimists that we are, your correspondents were looking for an exciting start to 2016. “Exciting” is one word that might describe the new year in global markets.
Jan 11, 2016New research by Tuck professor Santiago Gallino reveals the benefits of virtual fitting rooms in online retail.
Dec 22, 2015New research by Tuck professor B. Espen Eckbo sheds light on the impact of corporate bankruptcy on CEOs’ personal careers and wealth.
Dec 10, 2015Technology continues to remake large swatches of the global economy. Want Exhibit A that the world of finance is being transformed? How about banks deciding whether to lend to you based on how quickly you run down your smartphone battery?
Dec 07, 2015To take advantage of new opportunities, managers need to be aware of their own cognitive inertia.
Dec 03, 2015A conversation with Eesha Sharma, Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
Dec 03, 2015Solving the most important challenges of our time requires an approach that cuts across the disciplines, departments, and schools. Meet four Tuck faculty members who are doing just that—by exploring and expanding the boundaries of their fields of expertise with colleagues from across Dartmouth.
Dec 03, 2015Once a year, The Wall Street Journal convenes in Washington, D.C. its CEO Forum, at which over 100 CEOs of global companies gather to engage with each other, with policy leaders, and with WSJ editors and other guests on the business and policy issues of the day. At the most recent gathering, one of us attended to moderate one of the six task-force discussions; most specifically, on the topic of how public policy might better foster the innovativeness and competitiveness of companies in the United States.
Nov 30, 2015The health of a body politic can often be gauged by its ability to act in the long-term, national interest. On that metric, all does not seem well in the United States.
Nov 23, 2015Anup Srivastava finds skilled foreign laborers are a boon to the American economy.
Nov 17, 2015Sony's Betamax gave television viewers the ability to record programs even while they weren’t watching them.
Nov 16, 2015Kusum Ailawadi studies the link between two common measures of brand equity.
Nov 06, 2015Refugees will deliver a long-term economic stimulus to the region.
Nov 02, 2015The banking industry is in the doldrums.
Oct 26, 2015A plurality of Americans support the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Oct 12, 2015Research from three Tuck professors provides new insight into social networking.
Oct 05, 2015Once called "the land of the future," Brazil struggles to live up to its potential.
Oct 05, 2015What do U.S. Presidential aspirants Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common?
Sep 28, 2015Andrew King critiques Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation.
Sep 21, 2015Here's what we hope President Obama says to China’s President Xi.
Sep 21, 2015“Everything should be made as simple as possible—but not simpler,” counseled Albert Einstein. As with physics, so too with public policies aimed at addressing the world’s tensions of rising income inequality.
Sep 14, 2015Electric car subsidies are based on the assumption that the vehicles are better for the environment. But the reality may be more complex, says Erin Mansur.
Aug 26, 2015Scott Neslin explores how to get consumers to buy in multiple venues.
Aug 17, 2015Eesha Sharma explores the link between mental accounting and charitable giving.
Aug 10, 2015Professors from Tuck and Dartmouth apply an evolutionary biology model to corporate reputation.
Jun 18, 2015Pino Audia says business leaders are more desirous of social approval than we may think.
Jun 01, 2015New research takes the “friendship paradox” beyond mathematical theory, and adds an intriguing corollary.
Apr 07, 2015Tuck marketing professor Punam Anand Keller tackles obesity in her research.
Mar 31, 2015Peter Golder talks about industry pioneers, memory bias, and healthy paranoia.
Mar 04, 2015Ron Adner offers a more nuanced and powerful tool to examine strategic positioning.
Feb 11, 2015Amit Bhattacharjee uncovers the hidden perils of marketing on the basis of identity.
Feb 04, 2015Constance Helfat and Margaret Peteraf examine the role of managerial cognitive capability in firms’ ability to adapt to change.
Jan 12, 2015