Tuck’s research centers and initiatives bring a cross-disciplinary focus to issues that drive today's economy. They leverage faculty research, enrich the curriculum and learning environment for students, and connect the school more directly with practitioners and thought leaders in each field. Each sponsors its own programs, and qualified MBA students are invited to serve as fellows, research associates, roundtable members, or participants in independent study projects.
Research Centers
Center for Corporate Governance
The Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance researches how international differences in capital markets, ownership structures, and legal traditions affect financial contracts and best practices in corporate governance. It also studies potential conflicts between shareholders and other constituents that arise in takeovers, bankruptcies, restructuring, and determining executive compensation. The center seeks to engage Tuck students in the governance debate through our course, International Corporate Governance, and by hosting leading executives and board members from industry.
Center for Digital Strategies
The Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies examines how technology-enabled processes harness an organization’s unique competencies, support its business strategy, and create competitive advantage. The center analyzes the impact of technology on management and strategy, conducts research, creates a dialogue between CIOs and their executive colleagues, and drives an understanding of digital strategies in the MBA curriculum. The center offers an MBA Fellows program for second-year students interested in digital technology and its broad impact on business today.
Center for Leadership
The center has three main goals: to design and offer leadership development curriculum and activities that accelerate the pace at which Tuck students assume leadership roles in business, to support and advance cutting edge research on topics that deepen current understanding of leadership, and to serve as a forum where business leaders and scholars exchange best practices and research findings and collaborate in developing innovative approaches to leadership development.
Center for International Business
The center is dedicated to education and research on international issues facing business and national leaders. The center is a primary resource for Tuck students, faculty, alumni, and others interested in global opportunities and issues facing companies. The center’s activities include managing the Tuck Global Consultancy course, bringing speakers to Tuck, and organizing on- and off-campus conferences. It also organizes the popular Learning Expeditions, short-term visits to businesses and communities around the world.
Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship
The center advances the understanding of private equity investing and entrepreneurial ventures as it focuses on fast-growing companies and the interactions among entrepreneurs, industry participants, and financial markets. It is actively involved in practitioner communities of private equity, and its outreach facilitates the pursuit of venture-backed activities. The center seeks to educate Tuck students through such courses as Private Equity Finance, Advanced Entrepreneurship, and Field Studies in Private Equity, and through support of internships, fellowships, and independent studies.
Initiatives
Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship
The initiative serves as a catalyst for the study and education of management and leadership at the intersection of business and society. Through curricular engagement, sponsorships, and support of faculty research, the initiative helps students develop the knowledge and skills to manage increasingly complex interactions between business, governments, and the nonprofit sector. The initiative supports student projects and consultation in the U.S. and abroad.
Healthcare Initiative
The initiative enhances the education and industry of Tuck students in the classroom and beyond through coursework, independent studies, consulting projects, intern support, and exposure to experts in business and health policy. It brings together the expertise of its affiliated Tuck faculty, as well as resources from across the Dartmouth College campus, including the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Dartmouth Medical School, and the Thayer School of Engineering.