Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

In 1900, Edward Tuck charged the school he founded with the mission to �broaden the minds and raise the ideals of students while elevating the business community�. More than a century later, these values remain at Tuck and are evident in the integration of social and environmental topics in the curriculum, the recruitment of conscientious faculty thought-leaders, and the support of Tuck�s Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship.

The Allwin Initiative provides programs and resources which enable Tuck students to become responsible, caring business leaders with a strong sense of social enterprise, corporate responsibility, environmental awareness, and community involvement. The Initiative�s focus is to integrate these concerns into the curriculum, to increase discussion of these topics throughout the MBA experience, to engage students in intellectual debates within their classes (while they learn from role models who share their practices and perspectives), and to expose students to job opportunities in the nonprofit and public sectors. Program offerings include elective courses, career support, and co-curricular activities hosted by student clubs, augmented by speakers, panels, conferences, and individualized learning opportunities.

Tuck integrates social and environmental stewardship in its curriculum to empower our future business leaders to make responsible decisions throughout their careers. Community service and ethics courses are required of all students during Orientation Week, to promote the importance of corporate citizenship. All first-year students discuss social and environmental management issues in 10 of their 14 required courses. In the second year, Tuck students choose electives where more than one third of the courses include content on social impact and environmental management. Dedicated courses are available in business ethics, nonprofit management, and environmental sustainability. Students may also pursue joint-degrees in environmental law, law and diplomacy, and international affairs.

Environmental awareness has prompted Tuck MBA students and engineering students from Dartmouth�s Thayer school, to host an annual conference which explores the issues of sustainability and business from the perspective of the triple bottom line: environmental, social and economic success. In addition, the Business and Sustainability Club brings in guest speakers, and sets up career opportunities in the areas of renewable energy, responsible investing, microfinance, and global labor practices. Tuck is a business school that practices what it teaches in corporate citizenship. By strengthening the local nonprofit sector through educational programs and collaborative projects, Tuck provides a replicable model for how a major employer can play a positive role in its community.