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Oct 24, 2024

Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast: Precarious Manhood and Flirting at Work

Tuck assistant professor Sonya Mishra, an organizational psychologist and gender researcher, discusses her research and its implications in the workplace.

Oct 08, 2024

Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast: Experimenting as an Entrepreneur

In episode four of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast, Hart Posen, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck, chats entrepreneurship, innovation, and the concept of “fail fast, fail often.”

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Nov 19, 2024

What Oprah and Xi Jinping Can Teach Us about Status and Power

In new research, Tuck professor Sonya Mishra studies how we perceive social hierarchy along gendered lines.

Nov 12, 2024

Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast: AI, Social Media, and the Misinformation Problem

Tuck assistant professor James Siderius discusses the ethical challenges of AI and social media and his new elective AI-Driven Analytics and Society.

Oct 28, 2024

Bridging Business and Government for a Better World

A conversation with Clinical Professor Charles Wheelan D’88, author of “Naked Economics” and newly appointed faculty director of Tuck’s Center for Business, Government & Society.

Sep 26, 2024

Where Did All the Public Companies Go?

Market observers worry the number of U.S. public companies has declined dramatically since 1996. New research from Tuck professor Espen Eckbo should put those fears to rest.

Sep 12, 2024

Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast: Being the Chief Economist

In episode three of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast, we welcome Tuck professor and trade economist Emily Blanchard who recently served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of State.

Aug 21, 2024

Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast: The Science of Tipping

In episode two of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast, we welcome guest Laurens Debo, the C.V. Starr Professor of Operations Management at Tuck, who helps demystify the tipping conundrum.

Aug 21, 2024

Introducing the Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast

Matthew J. Slaughter, Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, joins as guest for the inaugural episode of the podcast.

Aug 14, 2024

Praveen Kopalle Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Kopalle, the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, will receive the 2024 Gilbert A. Churchill Award from the American Marketing Association during its summer conference on August 17.

Aug 01, 2024

A Strategist’s Take on Shareholder Activism

Tuck professor Mark DesJardine has worked in investor relations and studied shareholder activism for more than a decade. Here’s what he’s learned.

Jul 19, 2024

Why EVs and Heat Pumps Are Not as Clean as You Think

For more than a decade, Tuck Professor Erin Mansur has been studying the implications of our increased reliance on the electrical grid to power our lives. What he found may surprise you.

Jul 16, 2024

Forging a Human Path in Operations

In her research and teaching, Tuck professor Michelle Kinch puts people at the center of how businesses can optimize their operations.

Jun 05, 2024

The Science of Tipping

Why do we tip, and does it make any sense? Tuck professor Laurens Debo creates a modeling framework to find some answers to these economically significant questions.

Jun 03, 2024

The End of Analog

In Vijay Govindarajan’s new book, Fusion Strategy, the longtime professor of strategy and innovation explains how AI and real-time data will transform the $75 trillion industrial economy.

Apr 11, 2024

Managing Change in the Workplace

How can businesses lead diverse organizations, build a healthy work culture, and create equal, collaborative spaces for all? Tuck faculty have some ideas.

Mar 18, 2024

The Ripple Effects of the Great Credit Expansion

Gordon Phillips and colleagues uncover how consumer credit impacts individuals and families.

Mar 18, 2024

How Job Mobility Eliminates the Gender Gap in Networks

Tuck professor Adam Kleinbaum shows that women become more powerful brokers after changing work locations.

Mar 13, 2024

A Teacher and Mentor to First-Generation Corporates

Gail Ayala Taylor has taught thousands of Tuck students, from Bridge to Executive Education. Now she is distilling her experience into a book about the transition from college to the corporate workplace.

Mar 13, 2024

Why We Need Co-Conspirators

Women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership. Professor Ella Bell Smith and Ashley Zwick of the Tuck Initiative on Workplace Inclusion share what we can do.

Mar 08, 2024

Viewing Life as a Learning Process

Hart Posen builds computational models to understand why entrepreneurs and firms succeed or fail.

Feb 29, 2024

Slaughter & Rees Report: Help Avenge the Murder of Alexei Navalny

How? By redoubling efforts to build trust within and among organizations’ stakeholders, say Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees.

Feb 26, 2024

National Brands Hate Private Labels, But Make Them Anyway

In a groundbreaking study of national brands that supply private label products, Tuck professor Kusum Ailawadi uncovers the dynamics behind the best kept secret in retailing.

Feb 15, 2024

Meet Robota: A Tuck Professor’s AI-Generated Teaching Assistant

Tuck Professor Rob Shumsky has created an AI-generated chatbot to help answer his students’ questions.

Jan 31, 2024

Slaughter & Rees Report: Will the World Get a Vote in America?

As November elections approach in America, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees call on the next U.S. president to articulate a new vision for globalization—one that doesn’t involve building more walls.

Jan 16, 2024

But Will They Watch till the End?

Video ads are everywhere, yet consumers rarely view them in their entirety. Tuck professors Prasad Vana and Scott Neslin show how to reduce audience abandonment.

Nov 21, 2023

Do Hiring Managers Discriminate against Stay-at-Home Fathers?

Tuck professor Julia Melin charts evolving perceptions of men who return to work after taking time off to raise their kids.

Nov 20, 2023

Are Consumers Getting a Bad Deal from Debt Collectors?

Tuck professor Felipe Severino makes a surprising discovery: consumers who negotiate an out-of-court settlement have far worse financial outcomes than those who go through the court system.

Nov 09, 2023

How Can We Boost the Power of Renewables while Reducing Electrical Demands?

In three new working papers, Tuck faculty from operations and marketing discover new ways to conserve and manage electricity.

Oct 26, 2023

Do Investors Use the Media to Hurt Their Competitors?

Tuck professor Mark DesJardine uncovers an unsettling connection between institutional investors and negative media coverage.

Oct 17, 2023

It’s Time to Rethink How We Measure Globalization

A new paper from Teresa Fort finds that current data collection methods don’t capture the full range of U.S. manufacturing firms’ domestic and global operations.

Oct 16, 2023

A Unique Driver of the Sharing Economy: Belief in the Meritocracy

Tuck marketing professor Nailya Ordabayeva discusses her latest research on the role of ideological beliefs in consumer behavior.

Sep 18, 2023

Yelp Impacts Consumer Demand for Nursing Homes

Yelp has a powerful influence over consumer demand for nursing homes. New research from Tuck professor Lauren Lu explains why that might not be ideal.

Aug 16, 2023

Helping Consumers Help Themselves

Associate professor Lauren Grewal’s research and teaching exist at the intersection of consumer behavior, social media, and well-being.

Aug 16, 2023

Can Facts Reverse the Backlash to Globalization?

Free trade is under attack. Davin Chor studied whether evidence-based information could change the narrative.

Aug 14, 2023

How Generative AI Reshapes the Business Landscape

Professor Alva Taylor and Patrick Wheeler of the Tuck Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies argue that most organizations are not prepared for the challenges brought on by platforms such as ChatGPT.

Jul 25, 2023

Using Science to Imagine an Alternative Reality

How do we make sense of what could have happened? Tuck professor Raghav Singal created a framework that helps solve the age-old counterfactual conundrum.

Jun 27, 2023

The Waning Impact of Price Promotions

Tuck marketing professor Scott Neslin studies how consumer response to price promotions has changed over time.