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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
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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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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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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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