Tuck in the Media
Harvard Business Review: the Conversation
7/12/10
Professor Vijay Govindarajan writes a blog about the Akshaya Patra Foundation in India, which for $28 feeds a child daily for the entire school year. The foundation is an example of breakthrough innovation, and is able to achieve its low cost by following several principles, such as leveraging technology and local markets, scalability, and impact. "For many of the children served, this is the only complete meal for the day," Govindarajan writes. "The meal program gives them an incentive to come to school and stay in school."
Black Enterprise
7/9/10
The magazine runs a feature on Tuck's minority-focused business education program, which has been in existence for three decades. "The Civil Rights Movement of the '60s and '70s had curtailed social discrimination, but it hadn't done much to foster minority inclusion in the U.S. economy," states Professor Leonard Greenhalgh, who is faculty director of the program. "Tuck took the initiative to show that business schools can have a major impact on minority business success."
The Economist (Uk)
7/8/10
The recent news that KKR, a large private equity firm, is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange has left many experts wondering about the timing. Professor Colin Blaydon suggests KKR's bosses want to go public because they are "changing the nature of their firm. They are becoming a multi-line asset manager." Blaydon also appeared on Business News Network to discuss KKR.
BNN
NPR
7/7/10
President Obama's push to boost exports shows signs of progress, but analysts say it will take a more aggressive push to meet the president's goal of doubling exports within five years. Talk of reviving a free trade agreement with South Korea along with suggestions of Colombian and Panamanian trade deals is bound to be controversial, Professor Matthew Slaughter says. "Americans have long been ambivalent about greater engagement for the U.S. economy, and that's with good reason."
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