The Amos Tuck School
of Business Administration
Dartmouth College
Founded in 1900, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the first graduate school of management in the world. Tuck offers just one degree, a master's in business administration. The School's general management curriculum cultivates a concern for guiding a total enterprise in a complex and changing global environment.
Tuck's faculty, widely recognized for both teaching and scholarly excellence, are highly involved in developing the curriculum. They use a variety of teaching approaches, including lecture/discussions, case studies, team projects, simulation exercises, and independent studies, rather than constraining all courses to a single method. Our low student to faculty ratio of ten to one encourages more intellectual and social involvement between faculty and students as well as among students. Smaller classes enable faculty to administer more team projects, including a consulting project for business clients in the first term.
At the Tuck School, theory and practice are two necessary aspects of general management education. Practice ensures relevance for today by exposing students to significant management problems and challenges. Theory ensures relevance for tomorrow by providing general principles that can define and resolve the problems of the future.
Each year, about 3,000 individuals apply for the 185 available places in the entering class.
The Community
Tuck is part of the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire, a community of about 9,200 residents located in the Upper Connecticut River Valley. While is offers the advantages of country life, the campus is not far from urban centers. Boston is about a tw0-hour drive, New York City is five hours, and Montreal approximately three.
Dartmouth offers a wide array of athletic facilities to Tuck students, including swimming pools; tennis, squash, and racquetball courts; a weight room and dance studio; basketball courts; an ice rink; and indoor and outdoor running tracks. In addition, Dartmouth operates a golf course, boathouse, riding stable, and ski area that are available for Tuck student use. Many ski areas are within easy driving distance.
Tuck students enjoy full use of Dartmouth's cultural facilities. The Dartmouth libraries, housing one of the finest collections in New England, are available to Tuck students, as are the libraries of all seven other Ivy League schools. The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts offers a broad range of locally and internationally produced theater, music, dance, and film. The Hood Museum of Art presents exhibitions of fine art from all cultures and periods, including shows drawn from the college's own extensive collection, specially organized loan exhibitions, and traveling exhibitions.
Programs of study and degree requirements
The first year begins with a new module, Analysis for General Managers, which introduces students to issues general managers face and initiates an analytical approach- structured problem solving. The module sets the standard for the level of case analysis and class discussion expected throughout the curriculum: structured, in-depth analysis that identifies the core issues facing an organization and addresses them in a highly integrative way.
Following this initial module, Tuck students then take a set of 13 required courses designed to introduce crucial concepts and skills. The core curriculum provides a thorough foundation in analytical disciplines from economics, behavioral science, and quantitative analysis and a familiarity with the key functional areas of management, including finance, marketing, operations, human resources, accounting, and corporate communication.
Building on the general management framework, the core courses often interact in a way that forces students to integrate ideas from different courses in their analysis of management issues. Integrative, interactive, and global aspects of management weave through the entire curriculum as well as through specific courses. Much of the course content deals with non-U.S. companies with global competitors, multinational companies dealing with cross-border issues, and comparative management. The Global Economic Environment course gives students an economic framework for understanding international issues. During the first year, students participate in integrative learning exercises such as a three-day business simulation exercise and a consulting project in which they conduct research for, and act as consultants to, actual business clients.
Students' interactive abilities are enhanced through the orientation teamwork program, Management and Corporate Communication and Organizational Management courses, frequent team projects, study groups, oral presentations, and written assignments in many classes. Beginning in 1997, the Organizational Management course ran over both the fall and winter terms, with the fall sessions focusing on skills for collaborative learning. Like the module on Analysis for General Managers, these Organizational Management sessions set the standard for learning and working in teams.
First-year core classes meet in three sections of about 60 students each-new student class sections are arranged each term.
Tuck's second-year curriculum allows students to choose from over 50 elective courses without requiring a specific major. The second-year curriculum is enhanced by numerous minicourses, which can be taken in pairs for a regular course credit or singly for half-course credit.
Field Study in International Business, a second-year elective, is of special interest to those who want international experience but do not want to sacrifice time at Tuck by going on exchange. Students in this course (36 are enrolled in 1998) conduct a three-week on-site consulting project for major companies in Vietnam, India, or Indonesia. Corporate sponsors this year include Cargill, Citibank, Disney, Johnson and Johnson, Kodak, and Nike. The work is completed between the end of the first-year summer internship and the beginning of the second year.
Students with interests and career goals leading them beyond the scope of listed courses may apply to spend one academic term of the second year engaged in study at another institution. Tuck participates in special exchange programs with the London Business School (LBS); the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain; the International University of Japan (IUJ); the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management at WHU Koblenz in Germany; and HEC School of Management's Institut Sup*rieur des Affaires (ISA) in Paris, France. These programs allow many Tuck students to spend a term overseas. Alternatively, Tuck students may elect to spend one academic term of study at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Second-year students, under the guidance of two faculty sponsors, also may undertake independent study that earns credit as a second-year elective. In addition, the faculty-directed student research option provides student research assistants with course credit for their work with faculty members. This ungraded option is open to students by invitation from individual professors.
Facilities & Resources
All Tuck School buildings are physically connected to constitute a unified educational and living facility. The residential parts of Tuck include ByrneHall, which houses the School's dining facilities, and two residence halls, Woodbury and Buchanan. Most first-year students live in these dormitories. College apartments for students with spouses, partners, or families also are available about two miles from campus.
Classroom facilities at Tuck include several amphitheater-style rooms, an auditorium, and various small seminar classrooms plus a number ofstudy-group rooms. Feldberg Library, located in the adjacent Murdough Center, provides access to a diverse range of printed and electronic business information resources that enable students to complete course-related projects and assignments and to learn about companies and industries in connection with career planning. Feldberg's collection of business and management periodicals, newspapers, directories, and other sources is unrivaled in northern New England. Online information resources available to Tuck students include Dow Jones News Retrieval Service, Lexis/Nexis, and Datastream. Other databases contain U.S. and international company SEC filings and financial statements, business literature, and market data.
Tuck's cutting-edge computing environment entered a new era in 1996 with the complete renovation of its student computer lab and the addition of the Whittemore Wing for Information Technology. This new facility offers the latest in desktop and mobile computing along with facilities for video conferencing, multimedia production, data visualization, and group collaboration. All classrooms and study rooms at Tuck are equipped with computers and network jacks, which provide access to library databases, online information services, the World Wide Web, electronic mail and bulletin boards, file service, and high-speed laser printers. Projectors in all classrooms support the use of computers and video for instruction and student presentations. Network jacks in all dormitory rooms and dial-up support for students off campus guarantee that all these services can be accessed from student computers as well.
Expenses and Aid
Costs 2006-2007
The student budget for a single on-campus student is as follows: $34,900 for tuition; $13,600 for Food and Housing; $4,300 for personal expenses; $3,000 for a personal computer; and $2,000 for instructional materials.
Housing
Housing is available for single first-year students on campus; housing for married students and those with partners is available in town; second-year students rent apartment or houses in the area.
Financial Aid
A variety of Federal Loans, Tuck Loans and Tuck Scholarships are available. All students must submit FAFSA and Tuck financial aid forms. Limited assistance is available for international applicants.
How to Apply
The Tuck School seeks candidates who, in their role as managers, have the highest likelihood of making a significant positive impact on our society and its institutions. Given our educational mission of training future general managers to work in a global context, we encourage inquiry from people of diverse backgrounds with high intellectual ability who, in addition, have demonstrated that they are creative, cooperative, humane, career-focused leaders.
The application procedure requires a written application. Academic background, the GMAT, work experience, references, and personal qualities form the traditional basis for evaluating an applicant's credentials. In addition, the admissions office encourages personal interviews from applicants who wish to present their candidacies beyond the written pages of the application.
Who to contact
Director of Admissions
The Tuck School at Dartmouth 100 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH 03755-9030
Tel: 603-646-3162 Fax: 603-646-1441
www.dartmouth.edu/tuck
tuck.admissions@dartmouth.edu
The Faculty
Rajesh Aggarwal Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, Yale University, 1988; AM, Harvard University, 1992; PhD, Harvard University, 1994. corporate finance; strategic management.
Kusum L. Ailawadi Associate Professor of Business Administration BSc, St. Stephens College, 1982; MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1984; PhD, University of Virginia, 1991. marketing strategy and sources of market-share leverage; market power and channel relationships; determinants of marketing costs; econometric issues in marketing models.
Philip C. Anderson Associate Professor of Business Administration BS, University of California, Davis, 1978; MPh, Columbia University, 1986; PhD, Columbia University, 1988. strategic management of technology; organizational evolution and ecology; make-buy choices and the development of organizational capabilities.
Paul A. Argenti Clinical Professor of Management Communication BA, Columbia University, 1975; MA, Brandeis University, 1979; MBA, Columbia University, 1981. corporate communication; management communication; public speaking; business writing.
Gert Assmus Professor of Business Administration Diplomkaufmann, University of the Saar, 1965; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1971. international marketing management and strategy; decision analysis; application of quantitative techniques to marketing; new products.
Kenneth R. Baker Associate Dean; Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management AB, Harvard University, 1965; PhD, Cornell University, 1969. production planning, scheduling, and control; quality management; management science; environmental management.
Colin C. Blaydon William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management BEE, University of Virginia, 1962; AM, PhD, Harvard University, 1966. corporate and public sector finance; energy and regulatory policies; management education; corporate governance.
Jane Buchan Assistant Professor of Business Administration BA, Yale University, 1986; PhD, Harvard University, 1997. asset pricing; investment management; pension plan management; market microstructure.
Joseph E. Cooper Assistant Professor of Business Administration AB, Harvard College, 1978; JD, Harvard Law School, 1982; MA, Harvard University, 1991; PhD, Harvard University, 1992. economics of organizations; economics of human resource management; employment contracts; incentives and performance.
Paul Danos Dean; Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration BS, University of New Orleans, 1964; MBA, University of New Orleans, 1968; PhD, University of Texas, 1974. economics of auditing; new models of business school education; philosophy of science.
Richard A. D'Aveni Professor of Strategic Management AB, Cornell University, 1975; JD, Suffolk University, 1979; MBA, Boston University, 1979; PhD, Columbia University, 1987. business and corporate strategy; business policy; organization design; top management team design; corporate decline and failure; hypercompetition and market disruption.
B. Espen Eckbo Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance BSc, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1975; MSc, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1977; MBA, University of Rochester, 1980; PhD, University of Rochester, 1981. strategic bidding in interfirm tender offers; economics security offerings; resolution of financial distress; insider trading; corporate governance.
John U. Farley C. V. Starr Distinguished Research Fellow in International Business AB, Dartmouth College, 1957; MBA, Dartmouth College, 1959; PhD, University of Chicago, 1962. marketing; organizational culture.
Sydney Finkelstein Professor of Strategy and Leadership BCom, Concordia University, 1980; MSc, London School of Economics, 1981; PhD, Columbia University, 1988. corporate strategy; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; strategic leadership.
Carol Ann Frost Associate Professor of Business Administration BSF, University of British Columbia, 1978; MBA, University of Michigan, 1986; PhD, University of Michigan, 1989. financial accounting; financial reporting and disclosure in global capital markets.
Vijay Govindarajan Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business BC, Annamalai University, 1969; MBA, Harvard University, 1976; DBA, Harvard University, 1978. management control systems; strategy implementation; global strategy; knowledge management; industry transformation.
Leonard Greenhalgh Professor of Management BS, University of Rhode Island, 1968; MBA, University of Rhode Island, 1972; PhD, Cornell University, 1979. organizational behavior; strategic business relationships; conflict resolution; power and negotiation; personal effectiveness of managers and executives.
Robert G. Hansen Associate Dean of Faculty; Professor of Business Administration BS, Northern Michigan University, 1979; MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984. auctions and bidding; industrial organization; managerial economics; environmental economics; law and economics.
Constance E. Helfat Associate Professor of Business Administration AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1979; MA, Yale University, 1981; MPhil, Yale University, 1982; PhD, Yale University, 1985. firm capabilities and resources; CEO skills as related to compensation and firm performance; external CEO succession; R&D and innovation.
Caroline M. Henderson Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, Smith College, 1970; MBA, Boston University, 1976; DBA, Harvard University, 1983. marketing management; marketing strategy and organization; consumer behavior; public sector marketing; sales promotion; social issues in marketing.
The Honorable William R. Johnson Adjunct Professor of Business Law AB, Dartmouth College, 1953; JD, Harvard University, 1958. business law.
William F. Joyce Professor of Strategy and Organizational Theory BS, Pennsylvania State University, 1968; MSBA, Bucknell University, 1975; PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1977. business policy; corporate strategy; organization theory and design; strategic planning; organizational behavior.
David C. Kang Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Administration AB, Stanford University, 1988; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. political economy; international relations; Asian development; Korean government-business relations.
Kevin L. Keller E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing AB, Cornell University, 1978; MSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1980; PhD, Duke University, 1986. brand and product management; brand equity; advertising and communication management; integrated marketing communications; memory factors in consumer behavior.
Punam Anand Keller Professor of Marketing AB, Bombay University, 1977; MBA, Bajaj Institute of Management, Bombay University; PhD, Northwestern University, 1984. managing the consumer asset; marketing strategy, development and implementation; models of information processing, risk perception and choice.
Michael M. Knetter Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1983; PhD, Stanford University, 1988. international trade and finance; macroeconomics; international industrial organization.
Praveen K. Kopalle Associate Professor of Business Administration BE, Osmania University, 1986; MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1988; PhD, Columbia University, 1992. marketing strategy; product bundling; trade deals.
Terence M. Lim Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance BS, BSE, University of Pennsylvania, 1988; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. empirical methods in finance; investment management; market microstructure.
Dennis E. Logue Steven Roth Professor of Management AB, Fordham University, 1964; MBA, Rutgers, 1966; PhD, Cornell University, 1971. corporate finance; financial markets; new ventures; pension funds; corporate governance.
Weyman I. Lundquist Adjunct Professor of Business Administration BA, Dartmouth College, 1952; JD, Harvard Law School, 1955. business/legal crisis management, including the management of lawyers; officer director liability, insurance; commercial dispute resolution, including trials; Russian commerce.
Joseph A. Massey Professor of International Business; Director, Center for Asia and the Emerging Economies BA, Villanova University, 1962; MA, Yale University, 1964 and 1966; PhD, Yale University, 1973. government relations; trade policy making and negotiating style and strategy in Japan and China.
Victor E. McGee Professor of Applied Statistics BSc, Natal University, 1956; MA, Cambridge University, 1962; PhD, Princeton University, 1962. computer applications; computer information systems; applied statistics; neural nets; forecasting.
Eugene B. Mihaly Adjunct Professor of Business Administration AB, Harvard College, 1956; PhD, London School of Economics, 1964. international business development; international electric power development, with a focus on Asia; business diplomacy and business-government relations.
Mary Munter Clinical Professor of Management Communication BA, Stanford University, 1973; MA, Stanford University, 1975. management communication; communication strategy; corporate communication; writing; speaking; nonverbal communication; document and visual design; persuasion.
Scott A. Neslin Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing BS, Cornell University, 1974; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978. marketing models; sales promotion; advertising; marketing research methods; health services marketing.
David W. Overton Visiting Lecturer in Economics AB, Dartmouth College, 1961; MA, The American University, 1968. economic stabilization; economic development; international trade and finance; public finance.
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta Assistant Professor of Business Administration BA, University of the Basque Country, 1989; MA, University of Chicago, 1991; PhD, University of Chicago, 1995. microeconomics; managerial, financial, and labor economics; international finance.
Stephen G. Powell Associate Professor of Business Administration AB, Oberlin College, 1971; MS, Stanford University, 1976; PhD, Stanford University, 1983. management science; production lines; information technology.
David F. Pyke Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, Haverford College, 1976; MBA, Drexel University, 1982; MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1987; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1987. operations management; supply chain management; inventory management; multi-echelon inventory systems; manufacturing strategy; assembly-line design.
Peter J. Regan Visiting Lecturer of Business Administration BA, Dartmouth College, 1985; MS, Stanford University, 1987; PhD, Stanford University, 1993. decision making, modeling, dealing with uncertainty.
Jonathan Reynolds Visiting Professor of Business Administration BA, University of Oxford, 1979; MA, University of Nottingham, 1981; PhD, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1985. retail marketing; marketing information systems; Internet marketing.
Richard J. Rogalski George J. Records Professor of Investments BS, University of Detroit, 1969; MS, Case Institute of Technology, 1970; PhD, University of Michigan, 1974. investments; capital acquisitions by corporations; global money management.
Richard C. Sansing Associate Professor of Business Administration BBA, University of Texas at Austin, 1979; PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1990. international transfer pricing; deferred taxes; tax compliance and dispute resolution; tax-exempt organizations.
John K. Shank Noble Professor of Managerial Accounting and Management Control AB, Oberlin College, 1962; MBA, University of Pittsburgh, 1963; PhD, Ohio State University, 1969. accounting; managerial accounting; management controls; management education.
Richard S. Shreve Adjunct Professor of Business Ethics BS, U.S. Naval Academy, 1961; MBA, Harvard University, 1970; MDiv, Yale University, 1991. investment banking; business ethics.
Medini R. Singh Associate Professor of Business Administration BE, University of Roorkee, 1983; ME, Carnegie Mellon University, 1986; MS, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989. throughput time reduction and manufacturing responsiveness; vertical integration and supply-chain management; quality and pricing decisions; flexible manufacturing systems.
John W. Slocum Jr. Visiting Professor of Business Administration BBA, Westminster College, 1962; MBA, Kent State University, 1964; PhD, University of Washington, 1967. organizational behavior.
Clyde P. Stickney The Signal Companies' Professor of Management BS, Florida State University, 1965; MAcctg, Florida State University, 1967; DBA, Florida State University, 1970. financial accounting; accounting theory; current issues in financial reporting; financial statement analysis; income taxes and business decisions.
Steven Sung Assistant Professor of Business Administration BSBA, Ohio State University, 1990; MS, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995. financial and managerial accounting.
Karin S. Thorburn Assistant Professor of Business Administration BEc, Stockholm School of Economics, 1987; PhD, Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, 1998. corporate bankruptcy; CEO compensation and corporate performance; gains to bidder firms from corporate takeovers; resolution of financial distress.
Robert L. Virgil David T. McLaughlin Visiting Professor of Business Administration BA, Beloit College, 1956; MBA, Washington University, 1960; DBA, Washington University, 1967. accounting.
John H. Vogel Jr. Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, Carleton College, 1972; MA, University of Virginia, 1974; MBA, Harvard University, 1980. real estate and nonprofit; management.
Frederick E. Webster Jr. Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management AB, Dartmouth College, 1959; MBA, Dartmouth College, 1960; PhD, Stanford University, 1964. marketing strategy and organization, specializing in industrial marketing and buyer behavior, customer focus, and strategy implementation.
Kent L. Womack Associate Professor of Business Administration BA, Yale University, 1978; MBA, Stanford University, 1982; PhD, Cornell University, 1995. brokerage research; investor decision making; trading and issuance of equity securities.
Samuel V. Wylie Assistant Professor of Business Administration BEng, University of Western Australia, 1985; MA, Australian National University, 1992; PhD, London Business School, forthcoming. optimal decision making by investors; performance measurement and incentives of institutional investors; empirical methods in finance.
Michael Zubkoff Professor of Health Economics and Management BA, American International College, 1965; MA, Columbia University, 1966; PhD, Columbia University, 1969. health economics and management; economics; public policy and management.