Former Senate Budget Chairman Optimistic About Debt Reduction Deal Prospects

There is now more reason for optimism regarding the U.S.’s burgeoning federal debt. That was the message of Judd Gregg, a Republican and former Senate Budget Committee chairman in an address to Tuck School of Business students April 9. U.S. debt averaged less than 50 percent of the...

U.S. Companies Losing Out on Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

U.S. construction and engineering firms are losing out to Chinese and European competitors in the rapidly expanding market for infrastructure projects in emerging markets, using superior scale, government support and looser restrictions on bribery to win contracts, a top U.S. State Department...

What All Successful Companies Have in Common

Everyone knows that good senior managers are valuable. The question is, How valuable?  James Quigley, a senior partner and former chief executive officer at Deloitte Touche Tomatsu Limited has a figure: well-managed companies are valued as much as 35 percent more than their poorly-run...

At Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, Investing for the Long, Long Term

Up until the financial crisis, it had been a classic Wall Street career for Tom Arnold T’91. Then, in the depths of the global economic crisis in 2008, Arnold got an unsolicited call at his office with private equity firm Cereberus Capital Management from a recruiter asking if he’d...

Anglo American CEO Highlights Risk Management in Tuck Talk

In 2007, Anglo American PLC’s new chief executive officer Cynthia Carroll had just finished touring the mining company’s massive platinum operation in Rustenberg, South Africa, when one of her managers tapped her on the shoulder. “I’m sorry,” he said....

Getting on with Governments, Globally

As states play a larger economic role, Tuck's new center focuses on the intersection of business and government. It was early 2009, and the global financial markets were teetering. Zachary Segal D’98, T’06, moved from San Francisco, Calif., to Washington, DC, to work at the...

American Companies and Global Supply Networks

U.S. economic growth and job creation increasingly hinge on the success of American companies in the global economy, reports a new economic study released today by the Business Roundtable (BRT) and the United States Council for International Business (USCIB).  The report by CGBG Faculty...

Slaughter Leads Tuck’s New Center for Global Business and Government

Business leaders need to understand the incentives and operations of governments.

New Center at Tuck to focus on Global Business and Government

Tuck School of Business Dean Paul Danos recently announced that on July 1, 2012, the Center for International Business at Tuck will become the Center for Global Business and Government at Tuck. Led by Faculty Director Matthew Slaughter, the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and the...

The Five-Minute CEO

Matthew Slaughter, Assoc. Dean for the MBA Program and Signal Companies’ Prof. of Management, has testified several times as an expert before members of Congress. In his fall elective, Leadership in the Global Economy, Slaughter's students learn how to develop his or her own...

PepsiCo’s Derek Yach Delivers Business and Society Conference Keynote

Since leaving the World Health Organization and becoming PepsiCo’s senior vice president of global health and agriculture, Derek Yach has learned a lot about the business challenges that crop up along a corporation’s path to a more sustainable future. Take, for example,...

One Project=Campuswide Learning

What does it take for a 135-year-old company, steeped in both cultural and corporate traditions, to adjust, or even outright change, its principles and values? This question was explored, researched, picked apart, and extensively discussed by a small group of MBA Fellows with the Center for...

What Makes Exporters Tick?

Andrew Bernard makes the case that big, productive exporters—not entrepreneurial newcomers—hold the key to U.S. export growth. Bernard, who is Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics at Tuck and director of the school’s Center for International Business, bases his...