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May 20, 2016

Overcome Your Reluctance and Start Negotiating Your Salary

An opinion piece by Judith White about the excuses made when it comes to negotiating a better salary and tips on how to overcome them. "You can overcome these excuses. Each one that I've described boils down to a normal, healthy desire to avoid feeling bad about ourselves. Each results from framing negotiation as losing something: relationships, self-esteem, self-worth. To put it simply, we make excuses for negotiating in order to avoid losing face—ours or someone else's."
May 19, 2016

How to Find a Job with No Sunday Night Blues

Sydney Finkelstein shares how to find a career that won't make you dread Monday mornings. "Your career isn't something beyond your control. It is in fact one of the absolute most important things you need to actively manage as CEO of your own life. If you can make Sunday night feel no different than Friday night, you'll know you did it."
May 17, 2016

Forget Apple & Alphabet, these 2 stocks are better investments: McNamee

As a guest on CNBC’s Fast Money, Roger McNamee T’82, Elevation Partners co-founder, discusses Amazon and Facebook as his top two tech stock picks. "Amazon and Facebook really stand out," says McNamee. "They have enormous opportunities."
May 17, 2016

The 5 Habits of Spectacularly Successful Bosses

An opinion piece by Sydney Finkelstein about five habits that successful individuals exhibit. “There’s no formula for divining the next great idea, but what you can do is develop a series of habits that increase your chances of an innovative breakthrough,” writes Finkelstein.
May 16, 2016

The Best & Brightest MBAs In The Class of 2016

T’16s Alicia True Dagrosa, Whitney Flynn, Joseph Mpumelelo Ngwenya, Johnny Mathias and Pete Mathias have been named to Poets & Quants’ list of 2016 Best and Brightest MBAs. Poets & Quants selected 100 MBA graduates, hailing from 53 different MBA programs globally. Check out their profiles on page four of the P&Q story.
May 13, 2016

Poshmark co-founder Tracy Sun: The mind behind the fashion-tech startup

A feature story about Tracy Sun T'05, co-founder and vice president of merchandising at Poshmark, a social commerce app that enables the buying and selling of secondhand clothing and accessories online. San Francisco Chronicle highlights that the company has accumulated more than 1.5 million sellers, who engage with the app an average of seven times per day. "Those are the kind of numbers you'd expect to hear from a Facebook or a Pinterest," says Sun. "You don't often hear that kind of addictiveness or engagement in a commerce app."
May 13, 2016

Vogel: Housing Assistance

John Vogel discusses the challenges that low income households face when in need of housing assistance. “Food, housing and medical care are all basic human needs,” says Vogel. “All of which leads me back to wonder again, why we can’t administer housing vouchers the way we administer food stamps.”
May 13, 2016

To Grow as a Person, Selectively Forget the Past

An opinion piece by Vijay Govindarajan about how his Three Box Solution theory can be equally applied to an organization and an individual seeking personal growth. Govindarajan writes, “Even as the Three Box Solution framework helps organizations innovate and grow, it reveals a set of principles that can help leaders in their personal transformation journey too."
May 12, 2016

The Most Iconic Ad Campaigns And What Marketers Today Can Learn From Them

Kevin Lane Keller is referenced in an article about how the criteria for an iconic ad campaign is shifting. Forbes notes that Keller would put the Milk Board's "Got Milk?" campaign in the iconic ad campaign category.
May 11, 2016

Few U.S. Workers Receive Federal Assistance for Trade Deal Consequences

Dean Matthew Slaughter comments on the inadequacy of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program that supports U.S. workers who lose their jobs to foreign competitors. Slaughter calls the program, "vastly inadequate and improperly designed.”
May 06, 2016

Energy Transfer ‘can’t close Williams deal’: CEO

Sydney Finkelstein comments on how Energy Transfer Equity LP Chief Executive Kelcy Warren recently delivered a public and concrete renunciation of his once-coveted deal for rival Williams. "I've never heard of an example like this—of this degree of buyer's remorse. It was a bad deal from the beginning and they've realized it afterward, and now they're going about the process of trying to get out of the deal in a way that destroys the credibility of their own management."
May 06, 2016

A ‘Three-Box Solution’ For Leading Innovation

An interview with Vijay Govindarajan about his new book The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation and how the theory was inspired by his Hindu faith.
May 06, 2016

Donald Trump won’t be shunned by CEOs, experts say

Sydney Finkelstein says we shouldn't expect Donald Trump to be shunned by CEOs if he lands in the White House. "CEOs don't have much of a choice. If it happens to be a President Trump, they're going to have to deal with him."
May 06, 2016

Fed’s structure is broken and needs overhaul, former insider says

Quotes Peter Fisher who has joined the growing chorus calling for reform of the U.S. central bank. "The Fed's decision-making and communications process is broken and has been for some time," said Fisher in a speech to the Shadow Open Market Committee last week.
May 06, 2016

Three Traits that will Get You Hired by the Best Bosses

Sydney Finkelstein says, "The determination of superbosses to recruit the most intelligent, creative, and flexible employees possible is central to how they think about talent, and success.”
May 06, 2016

What FDR Knew About Managing Fear in Times of Change

An opinion piece by Vijay Govindarajan about the challenges that Franklin D. Roosevelt faced during the Great Depression and the bold decisions he made in Box Two and Box Three to navigate the country out of the crisis.
May 05, 2016

A Good Sweat, Indeed: Nonprofit Combines Philanthropy, Athletics

Highlights Nicole Burns T’17, in an article about the Sweat for Good summit that will take place Friday and Saturday at Fenway Park. The Valley News writes, “Burns will be part of an afternoon think tank focused on inclusivity—getting the most youth involved in philanthletics as possible.”
May 05, 2016

Former Fed Official Fisher Urges FOMC Reforms

Quotes Peter Fisher on the Federal Reserve central bank's policymaking committee being too large to be effective, disapproving of the appointing process and accountability of committee members. “Each Committee member should be accountable for their own vote as if they were the sole decision maker,” says Fisher. “It is time to fix the appointment process for Reserve Bank presidents so that everyone who has a say in our nation’s monetary policy is appointed by our elected representatives.”
May 05, 2016

To Innovate, You Have to Manage the Past, Present, and Future

Vijay Govindarajan explains how to create a new business while optimizing an already existing one using his Three Box Solution theory.
May 05, 2016

Here’s How to Lead Innovation And Your Company at the Same Time

Vijay Govindarajan discusses how organizations can use his "Three Box Solution" framework to align on the critical behaviors and activities required to meet performance requirements while dramatically reinventing the business.
May 05, 2016

Debate brings historians closer to truth: Vietnam War expert

Interviews Ed Miller, associate professor of history at Dartmouth, while in Vietnam leading the Tuck Vietnam GIX with Curt Welling, senior fellow, Center for Global Business and Government.
Apr 28, 2016

6 Leadership Behaviors Drive Continuous Innovation

A feature article on the book, The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan. Forbes highlights six key behaviors that business leaders should focus on to propel innovation.
Apr 27, 2016

Drawn Together

Quotes Ann Hargraves T'77, about her involvement in the founding of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont—the first and only standalone school in the nation to offer a two-year Master of Fine Arts in cartooning—through her work with the Upper Valley SCORE foundation which educates entrepreneurs and helps small businesses start, grow and succeed.
Apr 27, 2016

How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Vijay Govindarajan discusses the relevance of the Three Box framework in organizations—focusing on box two: the past—to ensure the company endures over time.
Apr 26, 2016

Can politicians really bring jobs “back” to the U.S.?

Dean Matthew Slaughter discusses the policies needed to create high-paying jobs in the U.S. including increasing the availability of H-1B visas.
Apr 25, 2016

The Highest MBA Signing Bonuses

Highlights Tuck in an article on the importance of signing bonuses and other benefits to MBA graduates when deciding on an offer.
Apr 25, 2016

We Asked Business’s Top Turnaround Pros How to Save the GOP

Sydney Finkelstein says, “There are not a lot of examples of companies that have gone through a successful transformation that have kept the same management team.” Finkelstein notes that CEOs move on, but political hands remain even after old methods stop working.
Apr 25, 2016

‘Before you can create, you must forget’

An interview with Vijay Govindarajan on his new book, The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation, and how the Three Box framework can lead to innovation.
Apr 22, 2016

Why trade and globalization concerns are resonating with voters at home

Dean Matthew Slaughter says that, with the right kind of policies going forward, more global engagement can help American families in the future.
Apr 21, 2016

What Does it Really Take to Stop Wasting Time?

Sydney Finkelstein offers five simple steps and says it's a matter of common sense with a healthy dose of personal discipline.
Apr 21, 2016

Why Unicorns Are Struggling

Vijay Govindarajan, Tarunya Govindarajan, and Adam Stepinski note challenges faced by unicorns, which are privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. They write, "... unicorns are struggling not only to keep up, but to keep innovating beyond their first breakthrough."
Apr 20, 2016

What Have Free-Trade Policies Meant for New Hampshire?

Dean Matthew Slaughter said that the U.S. has been “behind the curve” when it comes to strengthening the social safety net for communities that are affected by free-trade agreements.
Apr 19, 2016

Rising H-1B visa costs are stifling innovation and hurting the success of US companies

In an op-ed, Dean Matthew Slaughter says that, facing a shortage of skilled workers, the U.S. should make H-1B visas more affordable for the nation's companies and start-ups.
Apr 18, 2016

Nothing is permanent

Sydney Finkelstein is quoted as saying, "When smart leaders fail, it is not because they are incompetent, but because they are absorbed in their beliefs and are not willing to change.”
Apr 18, 2016

Six Reasons Smart People Fail

Citing the book, Why Smart Executives Fail by Sydney Finkelstein, the Huffington Post offers six explanations for why highly regarded leaders have failed.
Apr 18, 2016

Effective business leaders who see change when it’s coming tick three boxes

An opinion piece by Vijay Govindarajan about how effective leaders are able to use the Three Box framework as a continual process—always reevaluating and reflecting on the past, present, and future.