1900 Dartmouth College Trustees authorize establishment of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance on January 19.
1900 Edward Tuck donates $300,000 worth of stock in the Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota to found the school, to be led by Secretary Frank Dixon.
1901 Edward Tuck donates $100,000 to build a home for the school.
1904 The first Tuck Hall (now McNutt Hall) completed at a cost of $75,000.
1906 Harlow Person succeeds Dixon as director at Tuck.
1911 Tuck School hosts a major conference on Scientific Management.
1913 Institution of a course on organization deepens Tuck's strength in general management, which is to be its forte.
1916 Tuck accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
1919 William Gray T'05 is appointed dean.
1928-29 Edward Tuck donates stock worth $575,000 for the current Tuck Hall complex.
1930 Edward Tuck Hall, Chase and Woodbury dormitories, and Stell Hall are completed, enabling the student body to live and work in close proximity.
1937 Herluf Olsen is appointed dean; he oversees creation of the Tuck-Thayer program joining engineering and business.
1939 The Tuck School-Thayer School of Engineering degree is established.
1941-42 Faculty and staff turn to training military officers for World War II.
1942 The school's name is changed to the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
1946 Tuck School is flooded with applications by Dartmouth men returning as WWII veterans.
1951 Nathaniel Burleigh is appointed Acting Dean
1953 The Tuck degree is changed from the Master of Commercial Science (MCS) to the Master of Business Administration (MBA).
1953 Arthur Upgren is appointed dean; he promotes graduate management education in speeches to business executives.
1957 Karl Hill is appointed Dean; he focuses on transforming Tuck from the 3/2 program within Dartmouth College, serving primarily Dartmouth seniors and first-year graduate students, to an MBA school with a national reach.
1959 Tuck's board of overseers is established.
Early 1960s Full-time admissions and placement offices are established. The applicant is base widened to more than 100 undergraduate colleges and universities.
1962 Tuck acquires its first computer
1964 The Tuck Associates program is launched as an important link between Tuck and the business community.
1964 Tuck accepts Herbert Kemp T'66, its first minority student.
Mid-1960s Tuck leads in quantitative analysis through the development at Dartmouth of the BASIC computer language and one of the first educational time-sharing computer systems.
1968 John Hennessey is appointed dean; he intensifies recruiting of women and minority students and establishes Tuck's financial autonomy in Dartmouth's financial system.
1968 Tuck accepts Martha Fransson T'70, its first female student.
1968 The first Edward Tuck Scholars are announced.
1968 Tuck Mall dormitory (now Buchanan Hall) is completed.
1970 The Executive in Residence program is started.
1971 Dartmouth trustees vote for undergraduate coeducation.
1971 The Tuck Annual Giving program is started.
1971 Tuck Today is founded.
1972 Tuck creates its own student loan corporation, TELCO (Tuck Educational Loan Corporation).
1972 First Tuck reunion weekend, class of 1967.
1973 Murdough Center, including Feldberg Library, is completed.
1974 Tuck's first executive education, the Tuck Executive Program, is established.
1974 The Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education is founded by deans of 10 graduate schools of business to offer minority scholarships.
1976 Richard West is appointed dean; he begins enlarging Tuck's faculty and solidifying the school's program of research and scholarship.
1980 Tuck's highly successful Minority Business Education Program is established.
1983 Colin Blaydon is appointed dean; he begins expansion of the student body from 270 to its current size and doubles the number of international students.
1983 The entering class goes to three sections for the first time.
1985 The portion of the entering class with work experience reaches 97 percent.
1986 Tuck launches its first independent capital campaign, financing Byrne Hall.
1988 The International University of Japan (IUJ) program is initiated.
1989 Tuck appoints Dennis Logue as its first associate dean of research.
1990 Edward Fox is appointed dean; he stresses diversity among faculty and students, intensifies capital fund raising and strengthens Tuck's international focus.
1993 Byrne Hall opens, Tuck's first new building in 20 years.
1994 The Earl C. Daum Fund is established with a $7 million bequest for endowment, the largest in the school's history.
1995 Paul Danos is appointed dean; he stresses dual excellence for faculty, advanced telecommunications and information technology, and a global reach for Tuck.
1996 The Whittemore Wing for Information Technology opens.
1997 Applications top 3,000 for the first time.
1997 Tuck forms its Global Alliance with the HEC School of Management in France and Oxford University's Templeton College in the UK.
1997 Tuck Business Bridge Program® starts as a business month-long program in business analytics for undergraduates from the liberal arts and sciences.
1999 Tuck launches new research centers: the Foster Center for Private Equity, the Center for Asia and the Emerging Economies, and the Center for Corporate Governance.
1999 Trustees approve growth in the size of the MBA program to 240 students (four sections of 60) in an entering class.
2000 Tuck revamps the MBA program's first-year curriculum.
2000 The Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies and the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership become Tuck's most recent research centers.
2000 Whittemore Hall, Tuck's newest student residence, opens.
2000 First annual Tuck GIVES auction is held.
2001 Tuck's Online Bridge Program™ is launched.
2001 The James M. Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship is launched.
2001 Renovated Woodbury Hall reopens as home for the research centers and faculty offices.
2002 Tuck launches its Nonprofit Fellows Program to support graduates who use their MBA skills in the nonprofit and public sectors.
2002 The MBA Advisory Board is created.
2003 Name changes for two of the research centers: The Foster Center for Private Equity and the Center for Asia and the Emerging Economies become the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship and the Center for International Business, respectively.
2004 Tuck launches Investing in Excellence: A Campaign for Tuck
2005 Tuck Connections is launched, an online resource linking prospective students with current Tuck students and alumni.
