Why would a company famous for breakthrough discoveries suddenly pull back from bold research in favor of safer bets? Research shows shareholder pressure plays a role. The tension between short-term ...

David McAdams is a Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is also a Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at Duke. He earned a B.S. in ...

Joel Huber is the Alan D. Schwartz Professor Emeritus at the Fuqua School of Business. He and John McCann were founding members of the Marketing area when they arrived at Fuqua in 1979. Professor ...

Hedge funds pool capital from wealthy individuals and institutions to pursue aggressive strategies aimed at generating high returns. Activist hedge funds usually buy stakes in publicly traded ...

Alumni can borrow books, audiobooks, and DVDs for up to 1 year after graduation free of charge. To receive alumni borrowing privileges after your graduation date, please send a request via email to ...

Dan Ariely is a Professor of Business Administration and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He does research in behavioral economics on the irrational ways people behave, ...

Campbell R. Harvey is Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served ...

Daniel P. Gross is an associate professor in the Strategy area at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prior to joining ...

Wesley M. Cohen (Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1981) is Professor of Economics and Management and the Snow Family Professor of Business Administration in the Fuqua School of Business, Duke ...

Dr. Keisha Cutright is a Professor of Marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Her research explores fundamental drivers of consumer behavior, such as personal control, religion, and ...

Jordan Etkin is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Jordan studies goals—how people set them and pursue them, and their effects on motivation, ...