Our Strategy
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is organized
around the deeply held belief that giving students access
to a leading faculty of gifted communicators skilled in
discovering new knowledge is essential to providing the
highest level of graduate education.
Tuck achieves its unique level of student learning by putting outstanding students and a great faculty of thought leaders in close proximity. This way, cutting-edge knowledge can be shared freely and fully. Faculty are chosen for their scholarly
excellence and their dedication to student learning. Students are carefully screened for leadership potential, knowledge, education, and diversity of life
and business experiences. Tuck provides a setting that maximizes the access its
students have to faculty and to each other.
The following is a statement of Tuck’s mission, goals, principles, educational
philosophy, and strategic choices. It also includes a description of Tuck’s history,
programs, and achievements. Taken as a whole, this strategy provides a thorough
overview of how and why Tuck operates as it does and how we intend to lead the
world in the quality of educational experiences for future business leaders.
Mission
Tuck is a graduate business school at Dartmouth
College with primary activities in two closely related
and complementary areas.
Teaching
- Full-time MBA degree program
- Individual business courses for Dartmouth
undergraduates and master of engineering
management students at Dartmouth's Thayer
School of Engineering
- Non-degree programs for executives and other
specialized groups
Scholarship
- Research activities by a faculty of thought leaders
- Dissemination of research findings through
refereed and practitioner journals, academic and
practitioner conferences and seminars, scholarly
and trade books, textbooks, and teaching
materials
Goals
Tuck has two overarching goals: to provide the world's best educational preparation for a career of
business leadership and to have a faculty of acknowledged thought leaders who are outstanding teachers.
General Principles
Throughout its long history, which began in1900, Tuck has built on the traditions and strengths of
Dartmouth College, one of the world's leading academic institutions. Everything Tuck does is guided
by general principles and values it shares with Dartmouth College relating to integrity, excellence,
community, individuality, diversity, and inclusiveness.
Integrity
Personal integrity and accepting responsibility for
one's actions are the cornerstones of leadership.
Through our policies, actions, and teaching,
we foster a high level of integrity among all our
students, faculty, and staff.
Excellence
By setting high standards for our programs,
ourselves as individuals, and for our organization,
we strive for excellence in all our endeavors.
Community
People work and learn most effectively through
teamwork and within a supportive community.
Tuck strives to foster a sense of community among
all our students, alumni, faculty, and staff.
Individuality
We honor and value each person in our community
as an individual, a commitment that is supported by
our small scale.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
Everyone in our community benefits from diversity
of cultures, nationalities, and ethnicities, and we
believe that this diversity is essential to our overall
mission of educating future business leaders. We
work to create an environment in which the value
of diversity and inclusiveness is understood and
celebrated, and we do not tolerate discrimination.
Educational Philosophy
Tuck's strategic choices are guided by the abovestated
general principles and a deeply held
educational philosophy.
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching
Philosophy: Business students learn most effectively
from scholar-educators who combine leading-edge
research and inspirational teaching.
Strategy: Tuck has a full-time faculty who excel
in both research and teaching, whose teaching is
informed by their research-based expertise, and
whose academic rigor edifies their students. These
same full-time faculty members teach the large
majority of courses in the MBA program and other
Tuck offerings.
Student Access to Faculty Expertise
Philosophy: Students' business knowledge, analytical
skills, and decision making abilities are
enhanced by exposure and access to professors'
expertise and methods of knowledge discovery.
Strategy: Tuck's favorable ratio of students to
research-active professors provides an exceptional
degree of access to expertise, both in and out of the
classroom. In addition to a comprehensive set of core
and elective courses, Tuck offers unique, small-scale
seminars designed to give students in-depth access to
our faculty's expertise and critical thinking.
Student Achievement and Diversity
Philosophy: Students learn a great deal from the
experiences of their peers and are motivated by
belonging to a cooperative community of brilliant
colleagues from diverse backgrounds who share a
common goal of being leaders.
Strategy: Tuck requires that its enrollees have
a record of high academic achievement and
substantive work experience. Tuck ensures that each
entering class encompasses a diverse set of personal,
cultural, and business experiences and perspectives.
Scale and Focus
Philosophy: Limiting the size of the student body
and focusing on specific programs enhances
student interaction and allows faculty and staff
to concentrate on the quality of the educational
experience.
Strategy: Tuck confers only one degree, offers
a limited number of innovative non-degree
programs, and limits the number of students
in each of its programs to foster intense and
personal interactions. Tuck's size allows it to offer
unprecedented access to faculty expertise through
specialized and small classes.
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Philosophy: Business leaders need functional
knowledge, practical management skills, and
the ability to identify and analyze problems
from multiple perspectives by using a variety of
approaches.
Strategy: Tuck's MBA program has an integrated
core curriculum with rigorous coverage of key
functional areas and disciplines. The curriculum
provides strong functional expertise and develops
practical management skills through active learning,
group projects, and simulations. The depth and
breadth of our elective offerings allow students to
focus on specific areas of study within the context
of the broad perspective and cross-functional
knowledge required in top management positions.
Cooperation and Teamwork
Philosophy: The abilities to participate in and
lead an effective team, to balance competition with
collaboration, and to successfully mentor others
are essential elements of leadership that can be
enhanced in an academic setting.
Strategy: Tuck emphasizes teamwork and
collaboration through a comprehensive study-group
system and through required group assignments
and projects. Tuck admits students who will thrive
in a supportive learning environment where helping
others to achieve their best is the norm.
Learning Environment
Philosophy: Students learn the most when they fully
immerse themselves in their studies and concentrate
on learning from professors and fellow students.
The physical setting and intensity of learning
experiences are key factors in the effectiveness of a
program.
Strategy: Tuck MBAs study full-time in a residential
environment with a close-knit community,
providing abundant opportunities for personal and
professional development. Our living and learning
facilities are designed to encourage complete
immersion in learning with a full exchange of ideas
and viewpoints.
Leadership Development
Philosophy: A student's leadership skills and
potential can be enhanced in an academic
setting. Innate leadership abilities can be honed
by increasing self-awareness through examining
informed feedback, observing role models, and
experiencing leadership roles.
Strategy: Tuck provides a comprehensive leadership
development program, including leadership
coverage in core and elective courses, comprehensive
feedback mechanisms, personalized coaching,
multiple leadership opportunities, and a broad array
of visiting executives to serve as role models.
Global Perspective
Philosophy: A global perspective and mindset are
increasingly important to leadership in today's
business environment.
Strategy: Tuck's internationally diverse community
of students and faculty ensures that students have
the opportunity to develop a global perspective both
inside and outside the classroom. Tuck requires
a core course on global economics, incorporates
international content throughout the curriculum, and
offers a variety of electives focused on global issues.
The school also provides numerous opportunities
for students to develop global mindset outside of the
classroom—both on campus and around the world.
Lifelong Relationships
Philosophy: Personal and professional networking
are important to career success, and a well-managed
and supportive alumni network is an invaluable
resource to students and alumni.
Strategy: Tuck's intense educational experience
creates a strong bond among classmates that carries
over to the alumni network. Tuck encourages
extensive student-alumni interaction and maintains
an accessible and extraordinarily supportive alumni
network.
Corporate Citizenship and Business Ethics
Philosophy: Integrity and an understanding of the
complex interactions of business and society are
essential to business leadership. Students can enhance
their ability to make principled decisions when
they are placed in an ethical environment, exposed
to ethical frameworks, given the responsibility to
enforce ethical standards, and provided with multiple
opportunities to recognize the broad social and
environmental impact of business decisions.
Strategy: Tuck has a student-administered honor
code that emphasizes each student's personal
responsibility for maintaining community
standards. Each student is required to take a
course focusing on ethics or, more broadly, on
the relationship between business and society.
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