Can Treating Low-Wage Workers Well Become The Hot New Business Strategy?
Paul Argenti says firms that resist providing reasonable wages and benefits face a growing risk to their reputations.
Paul Argenti says firms that resist providing reasonable wages and benefits face a growing risk to their reputations.
Cites the book "Why Businesses Fail" by Sydney Finkelstein.
Tuck is ranked #9 in U.S. News' ranking of the best business schools.
Poets and Quants mentions Tuck as one of the best business schools for high-paying investment bank jobs.
Cites Kenneth French and his colleague Eugene Fama's views on different methods of valuation.
Quotes Kenneth French on growth stocks, which he defines as those whose share price is high in relation to the book value of their assets.
Matthew Slaughter says the Federal Reserve has helped stimulate job growth but cannot create higher-paying jobs.
Tuck is listed as one of the top 20 business schools that nurtures students' ideas to the point that they gain backing.
Points to research co-authored by Kenneth French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance.
Aine Donovan questions whether it's good policy to share the salaries of all employees saying, in some ways, it can be a huge disincentive to the workforce.
Points to research co-authored by Kenneth French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance.
The award from the Association of Management Consulting Firms recognizes an individual who has contributed substantially to the development of the consulting profession.
Sydney Finkelstein says there is a big payoff for companies that embrace the logic of simplicity.
Tuck dean Paul Danos says that the compensation of MBA grads from top business schools in 2014 exceeded pre-crash levels.
Paul Argenti says it would reflect well on a female CEO to speak up about aggressive moves by activist investors toward firms led by women.
John Vogel discusses how Dan & Whit's, “an old-fashioned general store” in Norwich, VT used social media to launch a campaign which raised $231,000 for the Upper Valley Haven.
Points to a 2012 Tuck study that reveals having more Internet in a country benefits its GDP.
Mentions Kenneth French's co-research on small cap stocks.
Business Because reports that, "investment management has risen to be the second most popular finance career among MBAs (at the Tuck School)."
Vijay Govindarajan says, "Given the growing importance of emerging markets, we are likely to see more CEOs of western multinationals drawn from countries like India."
Matt Slaughter noted that Chinese firm Shuanghui, one of the world’s largest pork producers, “wasn't like the state-owned companies commonly found in Communist economies."
The percentage of MBA graduates who found jobs in the tech industry at the Tuck School jumped to 18% last year from 13% in 2013.
Poets and Quants refers to Tuck's top spot in The Economist's student poll of alumni network usefulness.
When the Economist asked MBA students which school has the, "most useful alumni network," Tuck topped the list.
In his Syd Weighs In column, Sydney Finkelstein writes that sometimes less is actually more.
In collaboration with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Tuck OnSite Global Consulting produced three case studies about improving nutrition for vulnerable groups.
Matthew Slaughter discusses the Obama administration's plan to tax American companies' overseas profits to fund infrastructure improvements on, "On Point with Tom Ashbrook."
Kenneth French and co-author Eugene Fama say that a four-factor model that drops HML captures average returns as well as the five-factor model.
Matthew Slaughter speaks on the distribution of global wealth and what that means for international trade policy.
Poets and Quants reports that Tuck's application round 2 "shows a 'strong year for the quality, diversity, and volume of our applicant pool so far.'"
Matthew Slaughter says the drop in gasoline prices isn't large enough to make a difference in the budget of most Americans.
Sydney Finkelstein comments on the difficulty of measuring and regulating the culture of banks.
Quotes Amit Bhattacharjee on the biased process people use to reach conclusions.
Cites a study by Kenneth French that ranked the performance of all U.S. stocks from 1927 through 2013 according to yield.
Mentions Kenneth French's study noting that investing in actively managed funds, as compared to index funds, costs investors about $80 billion a year.
Matthew Slaughter writes that wringing more taxes out of the most innovative companies in the U.S. would be counterproductive in the long run.