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Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS What 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 classroom and to student life. Our global business perspective means that we value differences—cultural, historical and social. Understanding the spectrum of experience and outlook is essential for leaders who will manage diverse work forces. Ensuring that everyone feels comfortable in the Tuck community accomplishes more than harmony; it improves the learning process. It is a critical component of our leadership development and it starts with the admissions process. The school competes at the highest levels on key factors that are important to all students, such as the talent and prestige of faculty, career opportunities for graduates and depth and breadth of curriculum. Yet Tuck also differs from other top business schools in important ways that reflect the values of diverse groups including our focus, personal scale, emphasis on group learning and teamwork and the extraordinary levels 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 initiatives include 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 to conferences, alumni events and the admitted student weekend in April; and organizing faculty, students and alumni to contact admitted students. The Tuck admissions office employs two full-time associate directors to manage the schools diversity recruiting efforts and to attract and yield female students. Tuck participates in events organized by: • Consortium for Graduate Study in Management (CGSM) • Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) • Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) • Forté Foundation • Ten School Diversity Alliance (outreach to select HBCUs) • Dartmouth Black Business Association (DBBA is the undergraduate business association and Tuck partners with them to provide mentoring 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 Management Deadline for application: December 1st and January 5th Fellowship award amount: Full tuition Website or other contact information: www.cgsm.org The mission of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an alliance of leading American business schools and some of our country’s top corporations, 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 achieve this 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 Fellowship 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 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 Edition Dartmouth College (Tuck) Name of fellowship program: Toigo Fellowship Deadline for application: Selection occurs after admission to the MBA program Fellowship award amount: $5,000 per year Website or other contact information: www.toigofoundation.org According to the Toigo Foundation website, “The Toigo Foundation offers the only MBA graduate-level fellowship for individuals committed to a career in finance ... Toigo Fellows meet rigorous criteria. Academic prowess is a must, as well as ambition, integrity, emotional maturity and leadership potential. 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 career possibilities, 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/FACULTY Please provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school. Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, associate professor of business administration Noted scholar, author and thought leader, Professor Bell is founder and president of ASCENT, a national nonprofit organization committed to the professional development and career advancement of multicultural women. At Tuck, Professor Bell is an associate professor of business administration and works in the field of organizational behavior. She has previously served on the faculties of Belk College of Business Administration, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale’s School of Management and at the University 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. She is currently inquiring into issues of work/life balance. She has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and to many public institutions. Her scholarly works have been reported in many top publications and her book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, has been widely acclaimed. Alva H. Taylor, associate professor of business administration Professor 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 Papers Proceedings. 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 Class of 1968 Fellowship for scholarly excellence from the Tuck School in the 2005-2006 academic year. In addition, he received Unsung Hero Award for outstanding noncore teaching from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University for 1997-1998 school year. Rafael La Porta, professor of finance Professor La Porta is an expert on cross-country differences in law and practice pertaining to investor protection and how those differences cause economies, stock markets and firms’ financing practices to vary, an area known as “law and finance.” His work has been published in journals such as 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 on the Harvard faculty from that time until he joined Tuck in 2003. He teaches the core course in corporate finance as well as an international corporate finance 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, LP After a successful career at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Williams founded Williams Capital Group, ranked in the top 20 underwriters in 1999 to 2001. He also serves on the board of directors Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Harrah’s Entertainment and the Securities Industry Association. In 1994, Crain’s magazine named 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 vice president of State Street Corporation and director of advisor relations for Schoolhouse Capital, LLC.