Center for Global Business & Government

In late October 2012, Matthew J. Slaughter, the Signal Companies' Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, addressed Tuck alumnae who had gathered in Hanover for reunion. Slaughter offered his thoughts on five specific opportunities, represented by five statistics, that global business leaders and government officials worldwide should heed. Slaughter is also the faculty director of the Center for Global Business and Government and Associate Dean for Faculty at Tuck.

João Luiz de Medeiros, CEO Itaú Private Bank International, visited Tuck recently and in this video, he shares his thoughts on doing business in Latin America as well as provides some insight into Itaú's global strategy.

Daniel St. Martin T'02 is the director of Global Combine Product Line Strategy for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States for John Deere. During a recent visit to Tuck, he shared his thoughts on his career for John Deere. In this video, he talks about Deere's global mindset as they expand in new markets, the environment of teamwork, and how Deere values a diversity of thought in their global operations.

In October 2012, President and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States visited Tuck. In this video, he explains how the Ex-Im Bank promotes global business, and also shares his thoughts on its role in stimulating the ability for businesses to export to different countries.

Peter Foyston T'90, CEO of Campbell Swire, China, is a global brand management expert, having successfully launched numerous major brands in China. He recently visited Tuck and shared his thoughts on working in China, the consumer packaged goods industry in developed vs. developing countries, and why it's important to pay attention to your competitors.

Tore Rynning-Nielsen T'85 is a senior partner with Herkules Capital, the leading Norwegian private equity firm. During a recent visit to Tuck, he shared some thoughts about his more than 20 years of international corporate finance experience. In this video he talks about the finance industry worldwide and the trends he seeing, and he offers comments about the skills that are valuable when pursuing global careers.

Steve Dolman is vice president and fund manager at Hines, an international real estate investment, management, and development corporation. During a recent visit to Tuck, he talked about his experiences establishing his business in Brazil and offered his thoughts on weathering the current global economic crisis. He also commented on the importance of adapting corporate practices to fit the country you're doing business in, and why it's critical for MBA students to gain international experience and expertise.

Russell E. Wolff, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1989 and the Tuck Class of 1994, is the Executive Vice President & Managing Director of ESPN International. During a recent visit to Tuck, he sat down to share his thoughts on the ever-changing media landscape from a global perspective.

During a visit to Tuck to participate in the Tuck India Business Conference, Dr. S. Aravind offered his views about affordable health care for large populations, especially as it relates to eye care in India. He explained that the leaders at the successful Aravind Eye Hospital have capitalized on two kinds of innovation: game-changing and incremental.

In March 2011, a group of Tuck MBA students visited China on a Center for International Business Learning Expedition. The participants, led by Tuck Professor Peter Golder, learned about a variety of businesses in China, visited a rural village, and spent time getting to know more about Chinese culture and society. The students were able to learn from executives representing many different industry sectors, including finance, automotive, alternative energy, and manufacturing.

Harish Bijoor, President of Harish Bijoor Consults, Inc., spoke at the 2011 Tuck India Business Conference. In this video, he offers his thoughts on the complexity of the markets and marketing in India. "... Bringing in a standardized western product, and putting it out there into the great Indian market, letting it loose, just doesn't work. Because India is not a plain vanilla market. India is a very complex market, which says plain vanilla is too ordinary to me. Therefore most companies tend to want to customize their products for the Indian market..."

In March 2011, a group of Tuck MBA students visited India on a Center for International Business Learning Expedition. The participants, led by Tuck Professor Praveen Kopalle, learned about a variety of businesses in India, visited a rural village, and spent time getting to know more about Indian culture and society. The students were able to learn from executives representing many different industry sectors, including retail, automotive, tourism, and finance.

The 2011 Tuck India Business Conference explored the theme "Ideas from India: Innovating with Limited Resources." The three panel discussions covered different aspects of innovation: Emerging Innovations in Healthcare Delivery, Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid, and Bringing Indian Innovations to the World. The keynote address by prominent spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev was titled "Inner Engineering for Business Success."