News

Jun 23, 2016

Tuck Strategy Professor Ron Adner Appointed to Endowed Chair

Ron Adner, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck, has been named the David T. McLaughlin D’54, T’55 Professor, effective July 1, 2016.

Jun 15, 2016

Daniel Yergin on the Balance of Confidence

“Commanding Heights” author Daniel Yergin challenges Tuck graduates to rise to the occasion. “Rebuild the trust and reset the balance of confidence on which a growing global world depends.”

Jun 13, 2016

2016 Tuck Investiture Roundup

On Saturday, June 11, 2016, 276 MBA degrees were awarded to members of the class of 2016.

Jun 02, 2016

The Price Is Right

Setting prices in a constantly changing environment is hard. Tuck professor Santiago Gallino designed and tested a methodology to make it easier.

Jun 01, 2016

Blanchard, Sundaram Selected for 2016 Teaching Excellence Awards

The professors were praised for their expertise, passion for teaching, and their ability to make classroom sessions fun and relevant.

May 31, 2016

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Fight Against Fat

Barack Obama’s presidency will forever be linked to his contentious, but ultimately successful, effort to enact comprehensive health care reform.

May 25, 2016

A Behavioral Approach to Management Science

Underlying most theoretical models in management science and economics is the assumption that people have a flawless understanding of their environment and can think infinitely in any given moment—perfect rationality.

May 24, 2016

2016 Tuck Investiture Ceremony

Investiture will be Saturday, June 11, 2016.

May 24, 2016

Ing-Haw Cheng Receives Distinguished Referee Award

Tuck Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ing-Haw Cheng has received a Distinguished Referee Award from The Review of Financial Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal published on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies.

May 23, 2016

Slaughter & Rees Report: The Approaching Hurricane

Hurricane Katrina remains the costliest natural disaster in United States history. So much of what the world knows of this 2005 storm centers on either its aggregate totals—a haunting death toll of at least 1,245 and perhaps as high as 1,900—or its damage to New Orleans, Louisiana—where flooding of about 80 percent of the entire surface area led to tragically iconic pictures such as thousands stranded (and some dying) at the tattered Superdome.

May 19, 2016

Teresa Fort Joins National Bureau of Economic Research

Fort has been appointed a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER’s International Trade and Investment Program.

May 16, 2016

Kaitlyn Ramirez D’09, T’16 Selected for Japanese Leadership Exchange Program

Ramirez will travel to Japan this summer as part of the Tomodachi-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program.

May 16, 2016

Slaughter & Rees Report: Meet George Jetson

A few years ago, the acclaimed investor and author Peter Thiel pithily summed up the paucity of big-bang innovations: “We were promised flying cars and we got 140 characters.”

May 12, 2016

Creative Destruction in the Age of Ideas

Anup Srivastava explores the structural reasons why newly listed firms are more volatile than ever, and likely to stay that way.

May 06, 2016

Tuck and Google Team Up to Teach Digital Excellence

If you’re a business owner, the digital revolution is a phenomenon you just can’t ignore. Regardless of what you’re offering to the world, using the Internet and social media for marketing, communication, and strategy is a necessity.

May 06, 2016

MHCDS Launches Virtual Seminar Series for Alumni

Master of Health Care Delivery Science graduates reconnect over real-world learning in a new monthly online seminar.

May 05, 2016

Alumni Profile: Annie Hsu T’11, Strategy Director at Frog Design

Annie Hsu T’11 applied to Tuck after working for five years in product development at Google. During the application process, she thought back to her fondest memories of her undergraduate experience at the University of California at Berkeley, and realized she most enjoyed the courses she took in anthropology.

Apr 25, 2016

Slaughter & Rees Report: What Prince Taught Us About the Global Economy

Towards the end of one of his early hits “1999,” Prince hauntingly foretold that, “life is just a party and parties weren’t meant 2 last.”