WSJ: Dean of Tuck School Takes the Long View

Dr. Paul Danos, the dean of Tuck School of Business, is interviewed by Wall Street Journal's Ron Alsop about dean's plans for Tuck, the value of faculty research, and the changing world of B-school deans (Link).

Source: Wall Street Journal by Ron Alsop, October 9, 2007

FW: Investors applaud Target’s plan to unload plastic

Professor Victor Stango via Financial Week about Target's possible plan to sell off its $7 billion customer credit card business:

“The question isn’t ‘should they sell,’ but my first reaction is ‘why shouldn’t they sell,’” said Victor Stango, associate professor of economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. “The market likes this move. It’s divesting a line of business that isn’t core.”

“Ultimately, the premium will depend on the quality of the portfolio, which has historically been good but has also been growing riskier,” Mr. Stango said.

While some analysts think Target’s move may be a bit late, Mr. Stango believes Target should sell even if it doesn’t get much of a premium.

Source: Financial Week by by Marine Cole September 24, 2007

Management-issues: Half of U.S. firms have no women at the top

Professor Constance Helfat via Management-issues.com about the new study by Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth that "found a complete absence of women executives in 48 per cent of the largest U.S. firms."

Author Constance Helfat, a professor at Tuck, estimated that the proportion of female chief executives would only increase from the current level of about 1.7 per cent to about 4.9 per cent by 2010 and 6.2 per cent in 2016."In order for women to continue to make and accelerate the sort of progress that our data indicate, they need to reach executive rank in the first place. Therefore getting qualified women into the executive hierarchy is critical," said Helfat.
Aggressive hiring and promoting of women also required an available talent pool, which was still a major issue that needed to be addressed, she pointed out."This has particular importance for the still low proportions of women in line positions, which are an important route to the top of the executive hierarchy.
Unless firms find ways to move women into line positions and retain them, the route to the top will remain much more difficult for women than for men," she added. Achieving the goal of getting more women into the top hierarchy would require commitment and leadership from America's most senior executive, she concluded.

Source: Management-issues.com by Nic Paton, December 1, 2006

Scientific American: Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo get ready to rumble

Professor Eric Johnson's interview to Reuters is featured in this article on the Scientific American's website. Professor Johnson comments on Sony's failure to supply enough Play Station 3 game-consoles to meet market's demand:

While minor shortages can create beneficial media buzz, Sony's shortage is so severe that its rivals stand to gain, Eric Johnson, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, told Reuters.

Johnson predicted that holiday shoppers who are unable to bag a PS3 may just grab the Xbox 360 instead: "My thought is that Microsoft is the real winner this Christmas."

Source: Scientific American by Lisa Baertlein, November 15, 2006

The Guardian: Home and away

Dean Paul Danos via The Guardian about the unique experience international students can get by getting into Tuck:

"The bonding that takes place on a top full-time MBA campus is amazing," says Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. "The sense of being 'all in it together' adds to the sharing and mutual learning."

Source: The Guardian by Chris Alden, September 30, 2006

USA Today: CEO faces gantlet at hearings

Professor Eric Johnson via USA TODAY about the defining moment for HP CEO Mark Hurd as he is about to take the stand before a congressional committee to defend his actions of approving "at least part of a plan to snoop on journalists, board members, even his own employees."

"His performance on Thursday will be a career-defining moment," says business professor Eric Johnson at Dartmouth College. Hurd has a good chance of surviving it, Johnson says: He has handled the crisis fairly well, so far. But if things go well Thursday, it will "at least put to bed the question of whether Mark Hurd can survive (the scandal)," Dartmouth's Johnson says.

Source: USA TODAY by Michelle Kessler, September 28, 2006

Bloomberg: MBA Students Cheat More Than Other Grad Students, Study Finds

Dean Paul Danos via Bloomberg about Tuck's serious focus on fostering students' academic integrity."

Dartmouth's honor code fosters an atmosphere of respect for the rules and for fellow students," said Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover, New Hampshire. "Of course, there are businesses that cheat and people who cheat, but that's not the way it's being taught."

Source: Bloomberg by Emily Sachar, September 25, 2006