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

WP: HP Stock Falters In Spying Scandal

Professor Paul Argenti via The Washington Post about how HP executives are handling the "spying" scandal.

"People will reserve judgment on the company for a few weeks, but if there isn't a big change, with someone of high credibility brought in, it's going to start to affect business," said Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. "When a breach in ethics happens in a senior group of managers, it calls into question the management of the company."
"It takes years and years to build up a reputation and a few weeks to lose it. They're doing a very good job of losing it right now," Argenti said.

Source: The Washington Post by Yuki Noguchi and Brooke A. Masters, September 22, 2006

WSJ: Masters of All Universes

Professor Sydney Finkelstein via The Wall Street Journal about executives' extracurricular activities that are sometimes risky or conflicting with their jobs.

Management experts say many executives are looking for an outlet and a buffer from a BlackBerry-driven, 24/7 work life. At the same time, these are hard-charging personalities: They're impelled to reach the top of their company, and often can't stop once they get there. "They always need another target, another challenge that puts their off-the-chart energy to use," says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of strategy and leadership at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

Source: The Wall Street Journal by Jon Weinbach, September 22, 2006

U.S. News: At HP, a scandal that's good for investors

Professor Eric Johnson via U.S. News & World Report about recent "boardroom-spying scandal" at Hewlett-Packard, including the announcement that Chairman Patricia Dunn will leave her post in January 2007, while CEO Mark Hurd will replace her.

"They're happy she did this," says Eric Johnson, who teaches operations management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and used to work at HP. Hurd
is probably happy with what she did." It helps that Hurd, an outsider who replaced Fiorina as CEO last year, has earned confidence on Wall Street and is viewed as a capable replacement for Dunn.

Source: U.S. News & World Report September 12, 2006

ABCNews: Moms Head Back to School

Professor Anant Sundaram via ABCNews about Tuck's new program called "Back in Business: Invest in Your Return" that helps mostly "MBA Moms" to return to work after raising children.

In an interview with ABC News, Anant Sundaram, the program's faculty director and a professor, said the vast majority of the participants have MBAs but that "we have some outstanding admittees who have majors in literature, majors in political science, [and] who have gone on to excellent corporate careers."

Source: ABCNews by Katharine Escherich, September 8, 2006

WP: Growth Slows in Housing Market

Professor John Vogel via The Washington Post about the housing market in the US cooling off after a six-year boom.

The housing market also had been "artificially propped up" by speculators and "mortgage gimmicks," said John H. Vogel Jr., professor of business administration at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business. "You just see all these for-sale signs out there," he said. "If you're a buyer . . . it makes you question, 'Do I really have to stretch that far to buy a house?' "Vogel thinks this is just the beginning. Housing prices have become so out of line with people's ability to buy, he said, that barring a wage spurt, it won't be possible to escape significant price declines. "It won't be just prices flattening," he said. "I think it's going to be a pretty hard landing."

Source: The Washington Post by Tomoeh Murakami Tse, September 6, 2006

Forbes: Private Vs. Public

Professor Colin C. Blaydon via Forbes about the recent trend of "three or more private equity firms joining together to purchase a public company and then all of which appoint a few members of the board".

"The larger the board, the more different voices sitting around the table, the more of the power shifts to the management team," says Colin C. Blaydon, a professor and director of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

Source: Forbes by Hannah Clark, September 1, 2006