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Meet Our Fellows: Arleen Chien T’21
Joe McDonald
Name Arleen Chien Hometown Taipei, Taiwan. I grew up in Taipei and moved to the United States when I was 14 for high school. What did you do prior to ...
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Meet Our Fellows: Ben Simon T’21
Posted by Joe McDonald
Name Ben Simon Hometown Wendell, MA. It’s a town of 800 people next to the NH and VT borders. No traffic lights, no gas stations. We have one countr...
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Meet Our Fellows: Haylle Reidy T’21
Joe McDonald
Name Haylle Reidy Hometown Old Saybrook, CT What did you do prior to Tuck? I worked in Product Management at athenahealth. athenahealth provides cloud...
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Meet our Fellows: Emma Sapat T’21
Joe McDonald
Name Emma Sapat Hometown Falmouth, Maine What did you do prior to Tuck? I worked in government at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an ...
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T’21 Fellows’ Projects: Breadth of Diversity of Thought and Depth of Interest
Patrick Wheeler
Each year, CDS MBA Fellows undertake self-directed research projects on contemporary digital strategy topics. Projects are chosen and directed by the ...
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Meet Our Fellows: Rod Milligan T’21
Joe McDonald
Name Roderick Milligan T’21 Hometown Augusta, Georgia (same as James Brown and Laurence Fishburne!) What did you do prior to Tuck? Drilling and Comp...
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Salesforce and Slack: What it May Mean for the Future of Enterprise Tech
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
It’s been just over a week since Salesforce announced its plans to acquire Slack in a deal worth $27 billion, and there is no shortage of opinions o...
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The Pandemic as a Catalyst: Rapid Transformation for Future Success in Media and Healthcare
Keri Arslancan T'21 & Arleen Chien T'21
On October 23, 2020, the Center for Digital Strategies (CDS) and Center for Health Care (CHC) hosted a pilot “Digital Safari,” bringing together C...
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Introducing Our T’22 CDS MBA Associates
Joe McDonald
The Center for Digital Strategies (CDS) is pleased to announce MBA Associates from the class of 2022. These 24 students embody the center’s Mission ...
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Assessing Risk: Building Cultures of Risk Assessment for Innovation
Krishna Desai T'21, Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
When strategizing, designing, or integrating a product of any kind into your organization, cybersecurity and risk protocols require a fully integrated...
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Twitch: A Tough Decision Demonstrates Long-Term Thinking
Krishna Desai T'21, Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
What should a business—and its leadership—do when antagonized by a third party? When thinking about the wider value chain, is there enough value t...
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News Flash: Why Pay-to-Play Won’t Save News Desks
Krishna Desai T'21, Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
The New York Times’ investigative team recently broke a story revealing 1,300 local new websites have been bought out by conservative media and PR g...
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Retrospective: Fireside Chat with Niraj Shah, CEO of Wayfair
Sarthak Vaish T'21
On October 8, the Center for Digital Strategies hosted Wayfair co-founder and CEO Niraj Shah for a fireside chat with the center’s Faculty Direc...
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Uber, Lyft Face Serious Challenges to Their Business Models
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
We started this week’s conversation with the following prompt: “The City of Seattle recently announced it would require Uber and Lyft to pay the d...
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Microsoft ZeniMax Acquisition is Smart Digital Strategy
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax shows how far the company has come under CEO Satya Nadella in understanding the future of technology business mod...
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