When Suleiman "Sule" Kangangi, a professional cyclist from Kenya, began the 59-mile Vermont Overland gravel race in West Windsor on the morning of August 27, he had every reason to expect his team to win it. A little over three hours later, his teammates had finished first and third. It wasn't until later that afternoon that they learned Kangangi, their team captain, had perished from injuries sustained in a crash nobody saw and no one can fully explain.

Tuck professor Vijay Govindarajan created and led a first-of-its-kind GIX using VR technology and remote, real-time market research with consumers in India.

What will work look like when employees return to work? Tuck faculty offer their predictions on the new normal.

Tuck professor Davin Chor analyzed night light data from satellite imagery to infer the impact of the new tariffs on China’s economy.

Veteran professional freeride mountain biker Aaron Chase talks about his evolution as a rider and brand ambassador.

Could racing a pedal-assisted mountain bike up the highest peak in the Northeast become cycling’s next great race?

The novel coronavirus pandemic raging right now is arguably the biggest economic and public health crisis in generations. Anyone with a clear head is at least very concerned about its impact on their families and friends and the world at large. In these unprecedented times, the first instinct for many academics is to ask what we, as a society, can learn from what’s happening around us.

For Tuck associate professor Jordan Schoenfeld, who specializes in the role of information in financial markets, that instinct led him to do some early work on the financial impact of the pandemic. It’s an issue no one has studied much yet, because this is the first time much of the global economy has been shuttered, as people across the world are under orders to stay home from work and not gather in groups, in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

Want to pretend to be a ski-traversing badass? Vermont’s Trivial Traverse is for you.

As climate change and large corporate consolidation trends in the ski industry threaten small ski areas, the Shaefers seem to have found the right formula for survival—diversification. When the four-season journey began for Berkshire East in 2009, all of its revenue came from winter operations. Today, after growing the winter business, summer and winter revenues are about equal.

If there’s one rule for approaching Rasputitsa—the Russian word for mud season—it’s to expect the unexpected. It is, after all, a 40-something-mile dirt-road bike race that takes place in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in April, when the roads can vary from dry gravel to sticky mud, to ice and snow—sometimes all in the same year.