Tuck Knowledge in Practice
The Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast is produced by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. The podcast features interviews with Tuck faculty about their research and teaching, and the story behind their curiosity.
Episodes
Tuck Associate Professor Emily Blanchard, an international economist and former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of State, unpacks the far-reaching effects of the intensifying global trade war. From sweeping tariffs to supply chain disruptions and shifting geopolitical dynamics, Blanchard discusses the economic and strategic risks posed by today’s trade tensions.
Upwards of 83 million people in the U.S. have a disability, but firms still struggle to make their goods and services accessible to everyone. Part of the challenge is that non-disabled people view accessibility accommodations as tradeoffs against other interests, such as environmental stewardship and convenience, and they are loath to make those sacrifices.
In this episode, we talk with marketing professor Peter Golder about how to foster creativity and his new elective course: Creating Winning New Products and Services. In this course, Golder teaches MBA students a “process for identifying market opportunities, creating new product or service ideas, and turning those ideas into valuable new products and services.” One crucial step in this process is learning how to think cre...
Tuck professor Vijay Govindarajan argues in a new book that the same AI and big data advances that brought success to the tech sector will soon unlock enormous value in the industrial sector.
In this episode, VG discusses his book Fusion Strategy: How Real-time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future, and he shares how his 40-plus years of studying strategy and innovation have culminated in a bold prescr...
Praveen Kopalle, the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, has already shown that machines can write human-like reviews. Now, in a new paper with his Tuck colleague Prasad Vana, he shows that generative AI can produce accurate product reviews that require domain expertise—in this case, for wines. He and Vana accomplished this by creating a transformer model that predicts the wine tasting experience based on three cond...
Social media has been both a blessing and a curse, giving us new ways to connect but also digital addiction and misinformation. How can we redesign the AI in social platforms so they are socially beneficial? That’s one of the main research questions that fascinates Tuck assistant professor James Siderius. In the final episode of season one of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast, Siderius talks about his interest in Arti...
Did you know that manhood is a precarious trait, and that the precariousness of one’s manhood can influence men’s perception of being flirted with at work? In episode five of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast, Tuck assistant professor Sonya Mishra, an organizational psychologist and gender researcher, discusses her research and its implications in the workplace.
Successful entrepreneurs used to be lauded for their grit and perseverance. Then the idea of the “lean startup” introduced the mantra of “fail fast and fail often” as the way to strike startup gold. In this episode, Hart Posen, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tuck, discusses his recent research that puts a framework around the “fail fast, fail often” idea.
Research paper discussed: Programs of Experimentation ...
Tuck professor and trade economist Emily Blanchard served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of State from January 2022 to November 2023. In this episode, Blanchard recounts her motivation for public service, what life was like as a top official in the State Department, how that experience changed her, and what she’s excited to work on now that she’s back at Tuck.
In a new working paper, Tuck professor Laurens Debo, together with Ran I. Snitkovsky of Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, tackle the tipping conundrum from an analytical point of view. The paper, “A modeling framework for tipping in the presence of a social norm,” details a mathematical model that can help explain why people tip and why, perhaps, tipping isn’t the most efficient way to pay servers for their...
In this first episode of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice Podcast, Dean Matthew Slaughter talks about the origins of the Tuck School in the late 19th century, what makes it distinct from other top business schools today, and his personal journey as a researcher and academic.
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