But firms can still shape their worker age composition, said Ines Black, an assistant professor of strategy at Duke ...

In the paper, If You Had One Shot: Scale and Herding in Innovation Experiments, the researchers found that when firms can only run one experiment, this leads to insufficient diversity at the market ...

When the Federal Reserve meets, markets obsess over one question: Will interest rates go up or down? But sometimes, market moves happen even when rates don’t change at all. In uncertain times, a ...

However, Nooyi says when she started writing policy papers about supporting women, families and essential workers after her retirement from PepsiCo – she quickly realized her personal story would help ...

If the handful of companies controlling a market — say, gasoline — could meet in a ‘smoke-filled room’ and agree on price strategy, the result would likely be higher prices at the pump, higher profits ...

As Covid upended the workplace and created burnout, some companies tried to cope by investing in the welfare of their workers – remote work, digitization, increased bonuses. Did such investments in ...

In today’s culture of busyness, it’s common to hear a colleague bemoan being “time poor,” or come across articles analyzing whether as a society we have truly become “busier than ever.” But what if ...

In 2014, DuPont, “one of America’s most storied research-driven corporations,” became the target of an activist campaign. The company’s reputation as an innovation powerhouse – where Kevlar and nylon ...

Ashish Arora is the Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Rex D. Adams Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His research focuses on the economics ...

Since 1984, the Dean's Office of The Fuqua School of Business has hosted the Distinguished Speakers Series, bringing a variety of corporate leaders to Duke's campus. The speakers provide significant ...

Mohan Venkatachalam is the R.J. Reynolds Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Professor Venkatachalam received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in ...