The program will include a yearlong elective course dedicated to a critical societal issue, and will establish a collaboration between Tuck students and Dartmouth undergraduates performing research and analysis through the new Paganucci Fellows Program.
“As part of Tuck’s strategy to offer the world’s best leadership education, we are launching this program to better prepare our students to be responsible, engaged business leaders,” says Tuck Dean Paul Danos, who conceptualized the program. “This program will be innovative in structure and content, combining cross-disciplinary and experiential learning.”
“The course format of the program allows students to spend the fall and early winter studying an issue in the classroom, followed by experiential project-based learning in the late winter and spring. Second, the subject matter for the course will include input from the incoming first-year class and will culminate with second-year course work and projects. Finally, the course will feature Tuck student collaboration with Dartmouth undergraduate research and analysis. Dartmouth students who are awarded Paganucci Fellowships will dedicate a summer to researching and synthesizing information about the issue in question, with the option of continued work at Tuck throughout the following academic year,” the release further says.
“The inaugural course, debuting in the 2007-08 school year, will focus on microfinance as a vehicle for alleviating global poverty. Future topics will similarly focus on opportunities for businesses to create both positive social and financial value-the double bottom line,” it adds.
The societal leadership program complements Tuck’s Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship and the Cohen Leadership Development Program. The Allwin Initiative focuses on the intersection of business and society, where issues of corporate objectives and responsibility, ethics, citizenship, and leadership become paramount. The Cohen Leadership Development Program offers a combination of coursework and coaching designed to bring out students’ unique leadership strengths.