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Dartmouth CollegeTuck School of BusinessRECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPSWhat programs and initiatives has your school found successful in the recruitment of minority and/or female students?Achieving a diverse student body is critical in a globalized world where business demands that different voices, approaches and opinions are heard.The Tuck admissions office goes to great lengths to attract, select and matriculate a class of students to bring a variety of perspectives to the classroomand to student life. Our global business perspective means that we value differences—cultural, historical and social. Understanding the spectrum ofexperience and outlook is essential for leaders who will manage diverse work forces. Ensuring that everyone feels comfortable in the Tuck communityaccomplishes more than harmony; it improves the learning process. It is a critical component of our leadership development and it starts with theadmissions process. The school competes at the highest levels on key factors that are important to all students, such as the talent and prestige offaculty, career opportunities for graduates and depth and breadth of curriculum. Yet Tuck also differs from other top business schools in importantways that reflect the values of diverse groups including our focus, personal scale, emphasis on group learning and teamwork and the extraordinarylevels of involvement and support we receive from our alumni family.Each year, Tuck admissions undertakes a wide variety of initiatives to attract a diverse group of applicants and enroll a diverse class. These initiativesinclude mailings to women, minority and international prospective students; receptions and meetings around the world for prospective students;participation in the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management; the minority and alumnae mentor programs; inviting admitted students toconferences, alumni events and the admitted student weekend in April; and organizing faculty, students and alumni to contact admitted students. TheTuck admissions office employs two full-time associate directors to manage the schools diversity recruiting efforts and to attract and yield femalestudents.Tuck participates in events organized by: Consortium for Graduate Study in Management (CGSM)Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO)Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)Forté FoundationTen School Diversity Alliance (outreach to select HBCUs)Dartmouth Black Business Association (DBBA is the undergraduate business association and Tuck partners with them to providementoring and advising)Each fall, Tuck organizes two major outreach events on campus: The Diversity Conference and the Women in Business Conference.Please describe any scholarship and/or fellowship opportunities for minority and/or female students attending your school.Name of fellowship program: Consortium for Graduate Study in ManagementDeadline for application: December 1st and January 5thFellowship award amount: Full tuitionWebsite or other contact information: www.cgsm.orgThe mission of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an alliance of leading American business schools and some of our country’s topcorporations, is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership by helping to reduce the serious underrepresentation of African-Americans,Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans in both our member schools’ enrollments and the ranks of management. The organization strives to achievethis mission by recruiting for graduate business education qualified U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents from these underrepresented groups,as well as other persons who can demonstrate a commitment to the CGSM’s mission and can best assist the CGSM in pursuing this mission.Name of fellowship program: Forté FellowshipDeadline for application: Selection occurs after admission to the MBA programFellowship award amount: Full tuitionWebsite or other contact information: www.fortefoundation.orgThe Forté Foundation is an organization of top business schools and corporations whose mission is to increase the number of women in business.Each year, Forté Scholars are selected based on exemplary leadership and achievement. Scholars participate fully in the Forté Scholars programs.For more information on scholar benefits, please visit www.fortéfoundation.org. No separate application is required to be considered as a Forté Scholar.200
Vault/CGSM Guide to Business School Diversity, 2010 EditionDartmouth College (Tuck)Name of fellowship program: Toigo FellowshipDeadline for application: Selection occurs after admission to the MBA programFellowship award amount: 5,000 per yearWebsite or other contact information: www.toigofoundation.orgAccording to the Toigo Foundation website, “The Toigo Foundation offers the only MBA graduate-level fellowship for individuals committed to a careerin finance . Toigo Fellows meet rigorous criteria. Academic prowess is a must, as well as ambition, integrity, emotional maturity and leadershippotential. Expectations are high, not just during graduate school, but once a finance career has begun.“As a fellow—and a member of the Toigo family—you commit to pursuing a career within the field of finance. This includes a wide range of careerpossibilities, from investment banking and asset management to alternative finance, institutional investing, consulting, corporate finance and more.You also commit to being an active and involved member of the Toigo community by networking, volunteering (as a mentor to incoming MBA students,for example), and providing financial support to the foundation as your career progresses.”PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTYPlease provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school.Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, associate professor of business administrationNoted scholar, author and thought leader, Professor Bell is founder and president of ASCENT, a national nonprofit organization committed to theprofessional development and career advancement of multicultural women. At Tuck, Professor Bell is an associate professor of business administrationand works in the field of organizational behavior. She has previously served on the faculties of Belk College of Business Administration, the Universityof North Carolina at Charlotte, the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale’s School of Management and at theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst.The research interests of Professor Bell focus on the career and life histories of professional African-American and European-American women. Sheis currently inquiring into issues of work/life balance. She has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and to many public institutions. Herscholarly works have been reported in many top publications and her book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle forProfessional Identity, has been widely acclaimed.Alva H. Taylor, associate professor of business administrationProfessor Taylor is an expert on organizational evolution and technological change. His current research interests also include internal innovation,intraorganizational decision making and creativity. His work has been published in journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal,Administrative Science Quarterly and Virginia Accountant Quarterly. He also presented two articles at the 2007 Academy of Management Best PapersProceedings. Professor Taylor serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.Professor Taylor was a National Consortium for Educational Access Fellow from 1991 to 1994. He was awarded the Harvey H. Bundy III Tuck Classof 1968 Fellowship for scholarly excellence from the Tuck School in the 2005-2006 academic year. In addition, he received Unsung Hero Award foroutstanding noncore teaching from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University for 1997-1998 school year.Rafael La Porta, professor of financeProfessor La Porta is an expert on cross-country differences in law and practice pertaining to investor protection and how those differences causeeconomies, stock markets and firms’ financing practices to vary, an area known as “law and finance.” His work has been published in journals suchas the Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.Professor La Porta was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2001 to 2005. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1994 and was onthe Harvard faculty from that time until he joined Tuck in 2003. He teaches the core course in corporate finance as well as an international corporatefinance elective course at Tuck.Please provide information about prominent minority alumni from your school.Christopher J. Williams, MBA 1984, chairman and chief executive officer, Williams Capital Group, LPAfter a successful career at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Williams founded Williams Capital Group, ranked in the top 20 underwriters in 1999 to 2001. Healso serves on the board of directors Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Harrah’s Entertainment and the Securities Industry Association. In 1994, Crain’s magazinenamed him one of their Top 40 Under 40.Pamela Carrington Scott, MBA 1975, founder, president and chief executive officer, LVCC, Inc.LVCC, Inc. is a consulting firm that works with corporate, government and nonprofit organizations. Prior to forming LVCC, Ms. Scott was senior vicepresident of State Street Corporation and director of advisor relations for Schoolhouse Capital, LLC. She serves on the board of directors of BeverlyNational Corporation, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Girls, Inc. and the LEAD Program in Business.201
Vault/CGSM Guide to Business School Diversity, 2010 EditionDartmouth College (Tuck)Herbert Kemp, MBA 1966, founder and chief executive officer, What’s Black About It?Mr. Kemp is one of today’s multicultural marketing and advertising pioneers with more than 20 years of experience targeting the African-Americanconsumer market for some of America’s largest corporations with such firms as the UniWorld Group, Chisholm-Mingo Group and J. Walter Thompson.The first minority student to graduate from Tuck, Kemp received the Trailblazer Award at the 2006 Tuck Diversity Conference.Please provide information about prominent female faculty members at your school.Punam Anand Keller, Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of ManagementSelected by The Financial Times as a woman to watch in business education, Professor Keller’s current research focus is designing and implementingcommunication plans and transformative marketing. Her work has been published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of ExperimentalPsychology, Health Communications, Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research. Professor Keller serves on the editorialboards of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research. She received the NationalCancer Institute and Marketing Science Institute awards for effective health-related communications.In 2007, she was awarded the award for designing effective retirement savings communications by the National Endowment for Financial Education.Professor Keller has been president of the Association for Consumer Research since 2008.Margaret A. Peteraf, professor of strategic management and organizationMember of the board of governors of the Academy of Management and past chair of the business policy and strategy division, Professor Peteraf’sresearch deals with resource-based theories of competitive advantage and dynamic capabilities of firms. She serves as executive editor of theInternational Journal of Strategic Change Management; associate editor of the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Managerialand Decision Economics; and on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Management Concepts andPhilosophy, Journal of Strategic Management Education, Managerial and Decision Economics, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal,Strategic Organization and Nankai Management Review.Professor Peteraf has received awards for her teaching, including the 1997 Carlson Executive MBA Curtis Cup Award for Outstanding Teacher inExecutive Education and the 1999 Bruce Erickson Teaching Award. She earned the Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Award in 1999.Kusum L. Ailawadi, Charles Jordan 1911 T’12 Professor of MarketingProfessor Ailawadi has won numerous scholarly awads, including the Paul Raether Fellowship for scholarly excellence, the 1997 First William DavidsonAward for Best Contribution to Theory and Practice in Retail Marketing from the Journal of Retailing, the 2004 Harold H. Maynard Award for BestContribution to Marketing Theory and Thought from the Journal of Marketing and the 2005 INFORMS John D.C. Little Best Paper Award. In addition,she is listed under outstanding faculty in BusinessWeek’s Guide for the Best B-Schools.Professor Ailawadi’s research focuses on the strategic interaction and balance of power between manufacturers and retailers and the factors thatdetermine their relative performance. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Science andReview of Marketing Science. Professor Ailawadi was the 2004 winner of the JMR/MSI Competition on Academic-Practitioner Collaborative Research.Please provide information about prominent alumnae from your school.Noreen Doyle, MBA 1974, independent director, European Bank of Reconstruction and DevelopmentOne of the first 10 women graduates from Tuck, Ms. Doyle is a member of the Tuck School board of overseers. She is the retired first vice presidentand head of banking of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, a position she held from 2001 to 2005. In 2003, she was rankedamong Europe’s Most Successful Business Women by The Wall Street Journal. Today, Ms. Doyle serves on the board of directors of Credit SuisseGroup, Newmont Mining Corporation, QinetiQ Group plc and Rexam plc. Prior to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Ms. Doylespent 18 years at Bankers Trust, where she worked on oil and gas projects during the energy boom of the early 1980s and in leveraged finance duringthe prosperous late 1980s.Elyse Benson Allan, MBA 1984, president and chief executive officer, General Electric CanadaMs. Allan joined GE in the United States after graduating from Tuck and moved to GE Canada in 1988. In 1995, she accepted the presidency of theToronto Board of Trade and changed the way municipalities like Toronto are financed. That experience served her well when she returned to GE asCEO of GE Canada in 2004. As CEO, Ms. Allan is committed to making Canada “a leader in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide” anddemonstrating the importance of econmagination to her 9,500 employees.Deborah Warner Brooks, MBA 1986, president, chief executive officer and cofounder, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s ResearchNamed by PINK magazine and Forté Foundation among America’s top businesswomen, Ms. Brooks transitioned from Goldman Sachs & Co. to thenonprofit world when she became the founding executive director of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which today is the single largest funder ofParkinson’s disease research outside the U.S. government. Ms. Brooks regularly serves as a panelist at events about health care and promoting womenin business, including a panel at the 2005 Forté Forum and 2007 panel called “Taking Issue with Health Care” at the Tuck School.202
Vault/CGSM Guide to Business School Diversity, 2010 EditionDartmouth College (Tuck)CURRICULUM AND RESEARCHPlease provide information on any classes and concentrations that focus on issues related to women or minorities.Cross-Cultural and Gender CommunicationThis class studies: (1) How cultures and genders differ (in terms of nonverbal, verbal, time, power, relationships and social contexts); (2) Why theydiffer (psychological and cultural underpinnings of these behaviors); and, most importantly, (3) How to use and consciously choose behaviors to beeffective in different environments. The course will be highly experiential—including short role-plays (to identify default behaviors and practice newones), minicases and minipresentations, journals, debates and seminar-style discussions. The course is designed for men and women from all culturalbackgrounds; the goal is not to teach right or wrong behaviors, but rather effective behaviors which may vary in different environments.Seminar on Measuring the Effects of a Diverse Work ForceWhen managers speak of diversity, they may be speaking of an organizational value, a recruiting objective or a simple fact of life in today’s global andmulticultural work force. The academic research on diversity goes deeper, however, measuring different types of diversity and how they affectindividuals, groups and organizations. The objective of this research to practice seminar is to instill an appreciation of evidence-based managementpractices in the area of diversity management.Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for WomenGlobal companies depend on leaders with a global mindset. The Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for Women is the premier executive educationprogram for women who are assuming leadership positions with global responsibilities. The program prepares executives to meet the demands of aconstantly changing global business environment. An exceptionally strong team of transnational faculty members leads participants throughdiscussions and activities focused on global strategy, marketing, finance, leaders and organizational transformation. There are opportunities to developintercultural interaction skills and extend personal, professional networks. The program also includes strong wellness and reflection components aswell as peer coaching for life/work integration, the politics of high-level corporate communications, and other concerns that are critical for women andoften missing from executive education programs.Pilot Executive Education Program for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women InitiativeSupported by a grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Tuck is collaborating with Goldman Sachs to run a pilot program for minority womenbusiness owners that involves a two-day education program with a mentoring process. Many women aspire to be successful business owners, but lackthe knowledge and support necessary to survive the difficult early years. Participants will be minority women business owners who have been runningtheir businesses for at least two years and who have the desire and potential to grow.Please describe any faculty and/or student research projects that focus on diversity, multiculturalism and minority issues.Professor Ella Bell’s research focuses on corporate career advancement of multicultural women. Professor Bell founded ASCENT, a nonprofitorganization that, through education, corporate partnerships and research, helps multicultural women to overcome professional challenges andcorporations to build representation of these women at all managerial and executive levels. Her book with Stella Nkomo, Our Separate Ways: Blackand White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, was described as “providing a well-respected and thought-provoking look at someimportant aspects of race and gender in corporate America.”Professor Len Greenhalgh’s current research focuses on the effects of changing demographics on the U.S. economy as indicated by his working paper,“Strategy for a Different Future for Women and Minorities in the U.S. Economy.” Under the auspices of grants from the Small Business Administrationand the Minority Business Development Agency, he and other Tuck faculty have written a series of research papers on the role of minority businessesin the global economy; the effects of the rising percentage of minorities in the U.S. population on minority business development an
Deadline for application: Selection occurs after admission to the MBA program Fellowship award amount: Full tuition Website or other contact information: www.fortefoundation.org The Forté Foundation is an organization of top business schools and corporations whos
