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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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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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Our Take on Apple’s Disruption of IDFA and Digital Ad Tracking
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
A key topic for discussion this fall (and especially this week) is centered on data privacy and a feature embedded into the forthcoming iOS14 update t...
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Walmart+ Demonstrates a Patient, Focused Digital Strategy
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
On Tuesday, Walmart announced the launch date for its new membership platform, Walmart+. At the Center for Digital Strategies, we spend a lot of time ...
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Introducing Our T’21 MBA Fellows
Patrick Wheeler
About the CDS MBA Fellows Program Two decades ago, thanks to the generosity of Ed Glassmeyer, Roger McNamee and others, the Center for Digital Strateg...
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CDS Fellow Christopher Waltham T’20
Joe McDonald, Assistant Director
The Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck recently sat down with T’20 CDS Fellow Chris Waltham to learn more about his background, interests, an...
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Simple Value Proposition, Complex Digital Strategies
Posted by Joe McDonald
What is your clear promise to your customers, your clients, your constituents? That’s the question Professor Alva Taylor, Faculty Director of th...
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Creating a Digital-First Strategy
Joe McDonald, Assistant Director
In a recent article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, CDS Faculty Director Alva Taylor was quoted in an article about how non-profit organization...
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The More Things Change . . What does General Management Mean in the Digital era?
Tom Monahan
Last fall, the Center for Digital Strategies hosted PK Executive Chairman Tom Monahan at Tuck for the Britt Technology Impact Series. Tom reflects on ...
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Lessons Learned: Silicon Slopes 2020
Joe McDonald, Assistant Director
In late January 2020, the Center for Digital Strategies descended upon Salt Lake City, Utah, with 3 CDS Fellows for the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. Si...
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Product Led Growth & The New SAAS Buying Committee
Alex Becker
How do you evaluate enterprise software? A free trial? A sales demo? A Request For Proposal (RFP)? A recommendation? The answer increasingly depends...
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On the Ground in China: Witnessing Digital Transformation at a Global Scale
Patrick Wheeler, Joe McDonald
In the last decade, it has become increasingly clear that the Bay Area has new competition for tech dominance. We’re not talking about Seattle, New ...
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