Tuck Knowledge in Practice

In this episode of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast, Robert Searle T’96, an adjunct professor at Tuck and partner at The Bridgespan Group, talks about what it really takes to turn good intentions into meaningful social impact. Searle, who teaches Managing for Social Impact , challenges students to think critically about how their decisions affect society—regardless of whether they pursue car...

In this episode of the Tuck Knowledge in Practice podcast, Tuck professors Alva Taylor and Rob Shumsky explore a counterintuitive risk of artificial intelligence: not that it fails, but that it succeeds just enough to make us stop thinking. In their working paper with Tuck professor James Siderius , they examine how working alongside AI can subtly erode human expertise over time—a phenomenon they...

In this episode of the Knowledge in Practice Podcast , Davin Chor discusses his new working paper, An Anatomy of the Great Reallocation in U.S. Supply Chain Trade . Chor explains how global trade—once seen as a settled issue—has returned to the center of economic and political debate, reshaping how firms think about sourcing, risk, and resilience. Tracing the impact of U.S. tariffs introduced in 2...

Why are women still underrepresented in leadership roles? And what can organizations do about it? In this episode of the Knowledge in Practice Podcast , Tuck professor Sonya Mishra explores the hidden dynamics shaping career advancement, from “likeability penalties” to the unequal expectations placed on women at work. Drawing on her latest research, Mishra explains how leadership pathways themselv...

As a sector commander in the Coast Guard, Amy Florentino T’10 directed strategy and operations for all Coast Guard missions across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and northeastern New York. In that role, she developed a command philosophy that people should feel motivated, nurtured, and valued. Florentino draws on that philosophy as a clinical professor of business administration at Tuck. “A lot of...

Kirsten Detrick T’92 spent more than 30 years as an executive in the biopharma industry, working for firms such as Takeda, Amgen, and Bristol Myers Squibb. Detrick recently returned to Tuck to teach the mini course “Contemporary Issues in Biotechnology,” which is offered every year in the spring. Detrick discusses her career, her course, and some of the most pressing challenges faced today in the...

In a new paper, Raghav Singal creates a model that answers an important counterfactual question for people harmed by delay-and-deny: what if the procedure was approved in a timely fashion? Using specific healthcare data, Raghav’s model can answer that question with striking accuracy, showing the probability that a timely screening or procedure could have had a positive impact on a patient’s health...

Adjunct professor Joshua Lewis spent 35 years in venture capital and private equity and has a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford. He brings that experience and knowledge to bear in a new course he developed for Tuck called Moral Reasoning: From Machiavelli to The Bomb to AI . In it, he blends classic moral philosophy with real and fictional protagonists to inspire students to contemplate and disc...

In this podcast, we learn about the role laundromats can play in connecting low-income people with health care and social services, and how a startup called  Fabric Health  co-founded by Tuck alumna Courtney Bragg T’18 is helping to make those connections. 

What do gunpowder, Julia Child, and the iPhone have in common? They are all “epic disruptions” that changed the world. In this episode, Tuck clinical professor Scott Anthony D’96 discusses his new book Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World . Listen in as Scott dives into a few of these epic disruptions and explains disruptive theory, the influence of Clayton Christensen, an...

In 2024, Tuck professor Daniel Feiler had a series of confidential conversations with executives of numerous NBA teams. As an expert in the psychology of judgment and decision making, Feiler was curious how these executives were using the proliferation of in-game data to make decisions about which players to trade, recruit, and draft. He found that, like managers in any organizational environment,...

All businesses must endure a crisis every now and then. But not all businesses are digital platforms, such as Facebook, Uber, and eBay. What sets these businesses apart is their role as an intermediary between sellers and buyers, two stakeholders who are crucial to the business model but who can react to a crisis in very different ways, and with different consequences. In this episode, Tuck market...

If the 20th century business landscape was populated by behemoth corporations like GE, Berkshire Hathaway, and Siemens, the 21st century is the era of technology titans such as Apple, Amazon, and Tesla. But these huge firms are separated by more than the border line of Y2K.  As Tuck professor Gordon Phillips explains in this episode of the Knowledge in Practice podcast, the modern tech giants...

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 of the Knowl...

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...

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 h...

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 ex...

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...

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:...

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 w...

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.