{"id":30373,"date":"2025-01-09T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=30373"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:49:22","slug":"alumni-generosity-and-research-to-practice-at-dartmouth-tuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/alumni-generosity-and-research-to-practice-at-dartmouth-tuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Generosity and Research-to-Practice at Dartmouth Tuck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has approximately 10,700 living alumni. Although that figure may sound small compared with a larger school\u2019s alumni base, numerous students and graduates we have interviewed report that Tuck has an active and close-knit alumni community. Through their continued involvement with the school as mentors, visiting executives, recruiting contacts, and internship providers, Tuck alumni maintain an open channel between the MBA program and the business world. The Tuck students with whom we have spoken cannot say enough about the strength of student-alumni interactions, emphasizing that the vitality of Tuck\u2019s close-knit community endures long after graduation.<\/p>\n

One second-year student shared that he had had pretty high expectations with regard to the school\u2019s alumni network \u201cbut still underestimated how strong the network can be.\u201d He explained, \u201cThe connections were instant. I received same-day responses, all the time. There is a strong pay-it-forward mentality and a genuine interest in seeing people from Tuck do well. Alums go out of their way to help with networking, job preparation, anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuck alumni also stay connected to the school through its annual fundraising campaign. The school reportedly boasts the highest giving rate of all U.S. MBA programs. In 2018, the school launched a new capital campaign titled \u201cThe Tuck Difference: The Campaign for Tomorrow\u2019s Wise Leaders.\u201d The fundraiser is part of the larger university\u2019s $3B campaign, for which Tuck set an investment target of $250M. The investment target was met in early 2022.<\/p>\n

Tuck takes pride in not only its active alumni pool, but also its close-knit community and small faculty-to-student ratio. The school\u2019s Research-to-Practice Seminars complement these characteristics and allow incoming students to quickly get acquainted with the Tuck culture. An article on the school\u2019s\u00a0Tuck Today<\/em>\u00a0website explained that\u00a0\u201cInternational Entrepreneurship\u201d was the first of several such seminars designed to give students insight into a real-world business issue. The courses bring together a small group of second-year students with top faculty for a \u201cdeep dive\u201d into a specific topic. Research-to-Practice Seminars that have been offered in\u00a0the past include the following:<\/p>\n