Tuck & Tucker:
The Origin of the Graduate Business School
By Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.
In 1900 Dartmouth College, under President William Jewett Tucker, founded the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, the first of its kind in the world. The school was named for his father by its primary benefactor, Edward Tuck, who had roomed with Dr. Tucker as Dartmouth undergraduates prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Tuck had gone on to become a diplomat, financier, and raconteur, and maintained a great interest in Dartmouth, in education in general, and in business training in particular.
Dartmouth's Tuck School became the precursor of an important modern-day advanced educational offering, the ubiquitous American graduate business school, with today's widely known MBA degree. This is a short and informative history of Tuck School's early years, particularly as seen through the creative interaction of old roommates Tuck and Tucker, with cameo appearances by numerous political and business luminaries at the turn of the century, including William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and James J. Hill.
Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. is a longtime Tuck School faculty member and author of twelve books in management and business history, including The Molly Maguires, John Deere's Company and a two-volume history of Cargill, Inc.
In celebration of 100 years of educating business leaders.
From its first class of four in 1900, the Tuck School has grown to a centennial class of 188 diverse and enormously talented individuals. Tuck and Tucker's noble experiment gave rise to today's vibrant graduate business education industry.
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Foreword by Paul Danos
A simple idea—giving broadly educated students the education needed for a career in business leadership—formed the origin of the MBA degree. The values Dartmouth President William Jewett Tucker and Mr. Edward Tuck articulated over one hundred years ago led to the creation of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1900 and remain at the heart of our efforts today. The needed education, then as now, must be an immersion in business thinking where students learn from leading scholars and from each other; it must be broad-based; and it must have a global perspective, with inputs from diverse cultures.
In its first hundred years, Tuck has graduated 7,033 talented women and men who have taken up leadership positions in virtually every form of organization in all parts of the world. The Tuck School's noble experiment spawned today's massive graduate business education industry with thousands of MBA programs, with millions of MBA degree holders, and with growing worldwide demand for its talented graduates.
Today, top business schools such as Tuck have global reach. In addition to the traditional residential experiences, students now benefit from action learning in global business settings and from contact with faculty who are experts in the world's best business practices. Also, a huge array of degree and nondegree offerings is delivered by means of media that could not have been imagined in 1900. Technology is eliminating many limitations of time and space in the transmissions of ideas and data. One thing is certain-these global and technological revolutions will both mold the future of business schools and create intriguing challenges.
Tuck will combine the best of our traditions with an aggressive program of innovation, intelligent deployment of technology, and worldwide partnering with leading corporate and academic institutions. We will honor the Tuck and Tucker heritage by treating every student and alumnus as an exceptional individual and by maintaining the highest standards. We will meet the challenges of the future not by growing to the huge scale of our competitors but by leveraging the techniques and technologies of the new era.
Tuck's first class started with only four young, bright Dartmouth students. Tuck's one-hundredth class is composed of 191 students from around the world. They are diverse and enormously talented individuals, who have an average of five years' business experience. The program fosters teamwork, contact with business leaders, and interaction with the enormously loyal Tuck alumni-all of which goes beyond ordinary education. The MBA program of today transforms the student in terms of aspirations, career paths, and even lifelong friends.
Wayne Broehl's book chronicles how, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Tuck and President Tucker conceived of and launched a powerful educational movement. The Tuck School will lead that movement into the twenty-first century.
Forward by Paul Danos, in Tuck & Tucker, ©1999 by William G. Broehl, Jr., by permission, University Press of New England.
Table of Contents For Tuck & Tucker
- "I Wish to Do Something for Old Dartmouth"
- Heresy and a Simmering Controversy
- A "New Dartmouth"
- Edward Tuck: The Early Years
- Edward Tuck, Financier
- Tuck's Railroad Investments: Industry Intrigues
- Tuck and Tucker Innovate
- The Graduate School Concept Materializes
- The Tuck School's First Years
- A New Tuck Building
- Teddy Roosevelt Intrudes
- A Cornerstone-and a New Building
- Curriculum Development
- The Dixon Incident: Academic Freedom
- The Panic of 1907: Tuck Reacts
- A Competitor in the Wings
- How Much Independence for Tuck School?
- A "Crippled Leadership"-President Tucker Resigns
- "The New Reservation of Time"
- A Shoulder to the Wheel, Once Again
- James J. Hill: A Revelation
- A New Tuck School
- Edward Tuck, Citizen
- One Hundred Years
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