“We’re excited to bring the engaged, interactive teaching that Tuck is known for to executives half-way around the world by leveraging the power of technology,” said Anant Sundaram, faculty director of Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth, who worked with a team at Tuck and Citibank India to construct the course. “This series with Citibank India will be a model for us as we begin to work with other companies in India and around the world to provide a stimulating and convenient on-site learning environment that represents the best in business education.”
Tuck is a leader in delivering customized learning solutions to companies and executives worldwide by providing direct access to relevant management trends and innovative ideas. Programs are designed to bring real value and to be directly applicable to current business challenges. The school has been recognized for its intense client focus and emphasis on close working partnerships, its world-class faculty who are both true thought leaders and enthusiastic teachers, its ability to blend theory and business world practice, and its engagement with participants inside and outside the classroom.
“Over the course of several decades, Tuck has constructed intense executive education programs that are each customized to specific business needs. We’re eager to begin delivering these proven solutions through a new medium,” said Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School.
Several dozen executives from Citibank India will participate in the series, focusing on the topic of Strategy Transformation. Each monthly session will last approximately 90 minutes and allow the Indian executives to interact in real time with the Tuck faculty, including question and answer sessions and group discussions. Govindarajan’s session will focus on how managers can think differently about the future of their company and develop the mindset of a strategic innovator, D’Aveni will address the imperatives of how businesses can successfully sense and respond in this new era of hypercompetition, and Finkelstein will get participants to think differently about themselves, with a mindset that recognizes, grapples with, and thwarts early warning signs of leadership failure in organizations.
Also in May, Tuck will launch a similar program jointly with the business school IPADE in Mexico City.
In the past year, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has initiated an ambitious India Initiative to strengthen its ties with the country, including trips by Dean Paul Danos, former Dean and current Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship Director Colin Blaydon, Strategy Professor Vijay Govindarajan, Marketing Professor Kevin Lane Keller, and others to cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai. Last summer the Tuck School hired its first in-country representative, who previously served as the executive director of the Indian School of Business, and today there are more students from India studying for their MBA at Tuck than from any other country outside the U.S.