Tuck Gives LEAD students an MBA experience
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—September 8, 2008
CONTACT: Kim Keating, 603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H.—Every summer 30 high school students are selected by the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program to spend three weeks at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. This experience gives them an opportunity to develop leadership skills and build a plan for their future success. LEAD is a nationally run initiative to encourage high schools students with diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in business.
Tuck is one of 14 top business schools that run summer business institutes as part of LEAD. For its twelfth program, Tuck focused on entrepreneurship and required students to create a business plan, which teams present to fellow students and a panel of judges. The classroom experience is rigorous, and Tuck faculty members challenge students with material pulled from first-year MBA courses. As a break from the classroom and to learn about opportunities in business, students spent a couple of days in Boston meeting executives at firms such as Goldman Sachs and State Street Corporation, the program’s corporate sponsors.
Despite the demanding curriculum, LEAD at Tuck is not all work. Because of the school’s location in the mountains of New Hampshire, students, many of whom are from urban areas across the United States, experience a different lifestyle in the Upper Valley. Students participated in an outdoor team-building exercise and enjoyed local attractions.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management in the country and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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