Tuck Knowledge in Practice

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

April 30, 2025 22 mins

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 achieved their status not ...

Mark as Played

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.

Mark as Played

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 Knowledge in Practice Podcast, T...

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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.

Mark as Played

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 ...

Mark as Played

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.

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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.

Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    Intentionally Disturbing

    Join me on this podcast as I navigate the murky waters of human behavior, current events, and personal anecdotes through in-depth interviews with incredible people—all served with a generous helping of sarcasm and satire. After years as a forensic and clinical psychologist, I offer a unique interview style and a low tolerance for bullshit, quickly steering conversations toward depth and darkness. I honor the seriousness while also appreciating wit. I’m your guide through the twisted labyrinth of the human psyche, armed with dark humor and biting wit.

    The Bobby Bones Show

    Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.