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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Tuck: A Unique and Integrated Healthcare Path |
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Nashley Peter Mascarenhas was born in India and raised in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Economics from Purdue University. Upon graduation, Nashley joined Motorola Mobility as a quality engineer and worked on phones such as Razr and Droid. Nashley is currently pursuing an MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is on the board of the Good Neighbor Health Clinic. He is one of the co-chairs of the Healthcare Club and a Visiting Executive fellow. My fellow classmates and I have spent considerable amounts of time discussing the amazing experiences and opportunities at Tuck. Among them are a multitude of opportunities to explore and recruit for a career in healthcare. As a second-year student who’s focused on healthcare, I firmly believe that because of our distinctive community, Tuck provides the best chance to flourish in this field. Why? 1) Your experiences will be unique: At Tuck, the small, close-knit community makes the healthcare connection unique. You are more likely to stand out to employers and will make a bigger impact in interviews because you’ve received dedicated attention from Tuckies working at these companies throughout the recruiting process. 2) Access to Executives: At Tuck, there are numerous opportunities to have one-on-one access to healthcare leaders. Whether it is David Southwell, Peter Dolan, or Sherri Oberg, executives from industry, VC and healthcare services come back and speak to students. You can literally be in a room and have a direct discussion with a CEO! 3) Curriculum: Tuck professors have real world experience in a variety of healthcare organizations and sectors. They are incredibly connected and most importantly, willing to spend one-on-one time to craft your career path. You can choose from a variety of electives that cover the breadth of healthcare, including products, services, IT and investing. Students have loved learning from non-profit hospital CEOs, venture capitalists and private equity folks working in healthcare. 4) Supply-demand: At Tuck, we have a plethora of healthcare recruiters that come to campus, looking for candidates like you. Whether your interest is in biotech, pharma or medical devices, healthcare-focused consulting, or healthcare investment banking, there are tons of opportunities to explore. 5) Entrepreneurship: There is incredible support for entrepreneurship at Tuck. Access to a leading medical school at Geisel, thought leaders in health care delivery at the Dartmouth Institute, or the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth offer Tuckies the opportunity to explore entrepreneurial opportunities. 6) Healthcare Initiative: There is a laser focus on healthcare at Tuck with efforts to bring in leading speakers from all facets of the field, mentoring of students interested in healthcare, and building bridges to healthcare resources and interest across Dartmouth. The Healthcare Initiative supports both the MD-MBA and MBA-MPH joint degree programs. I could go on and on. If you are interested in a top-business school and want to pursue a career in healthcare, you need to consider Tuck! |
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: A Consulting Recruiting Experience Unlike Any Other |
![]() Elliot Gillerman is an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Prior to Tuck, Elliot worked at the Pentagon for Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and previously worked on national security policy within the Department of Defense and the U.S. House of Representatives. He began his career as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Elliot is also pursuing his MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School and earned a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. One of my most memorable experiences at Tuck so far was a recruiting event I attended last fall. Sure, most on-campus recruiting events are pretty standard – company briefings, cocktail receptions, office hours and the like – but this event was a great departure from the mold. Hosted by one of the major consulting firms that recruits here at Tuck, around 20 classmates and I joined a senior partner from the firm for a ‘fireside chat’ at Dartmouth’s Class of ’66 Lodge. The Class of ’66 Lodge is one of many cabins that Dartmouth College owns and maintains around the Upper Valley. It’s a ten-minute drive from Tuck and a fifteen-minute walk from the trailhead, but despite the short distance it felt like a completely different world. The first-year fall term at Tuck is an incredibly immersive experience, and I was very much looking forward to taking a study break and enjoying New Hampshire’s fall foliage during my time at the cabin. Once we settled in and built a roaring fire, my classmates and I settled down for the official portion of the evening. After an introduction from a second-year student who interned at the firm last summer, the partner spoke about his career and experience at the firm. This led to a great question-and-answer session that could have lasted for hours, but eventually he and his colleagues had to hit the trail to return home. Following their departure, my classmates and I remained at the cabin to spend the night. We kept the fire and conversation going until the early hours of the morning, and this time away from campus presented a unique opportunity to create new friendships and to strengthen existing ones. Waking up to a cool fall morning, many of us noted that our sleep the previous night was perhaps the best we’d had in weeks. When I reflect back on this evening, I realize now that many of the factors that made it so memorable are the same factors that originally drew me to Tuck: a small and close-knit community; unparalleled access to professors and visiting executives, and the opportunity to enjoy a different pace of life as I pursue my MBA. As we walked back to our cars the next morning, my classmates and I wondered out loud whether this event could occur at any other school. We couldn’t say for certain, but I’m certainly glad that it happens at Tuck. |
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