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20 Nov 2013, 07:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: 2013 Women in Business Conference: “No Limits” |
 On October 25 and 26, Tuck welcomed more than 125 current and prospective students, alumnae, faculty, staff and friends to take part in workshops, panel discussions, and mock classes as part of the 2013 Women in Business Conference. The planning process among the two other co-chairs and I began in the spring. In the end, the hard work we put into determining the programming, gathering sponsorships, marketing the event, and managing registrations really paid off! Under the theme “No Limits,” conference attendees participated in a number of programs focused on empowering business leaders – men and women – to take action, guiding their professional and personal lives in the direction they wish. We wanted to convey the message that it is up to you to propel your career and your life to where you want it to be. There are resources around to help you, but be motivated in the fact that there are many things you can make possible.  Conference sessions included:
Laurel Richie D’81, President of the Women’s National Basketball Association, delivered Friday’s keynote address. As she walked dinner guests through her own leadership journey working in a traditionally male-dominated industry, Laurel reflected on the importance of taking risks in order to find greater opportunities. The following day Anne Drapeau T’92, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Talent at Iron Mountain, addressed conference participants. While Anne applauded the advancement of women in the workplace, she highlighted the need for women and men to truly partner in these endeavors. Anne emphasized the need to not only include men in the process but to also expand the conversation to address the issue of support for men in non-traditional roles. Thank you to all who attended and we look forward to seeing you back up in Hanover again soon! Click here to learn more about Tuck's Women in Business Club. |
20 Nov 2013, 08:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: 2013 Women in Business Conference: “No Limits” |
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On October 25 and 26, Tuck welcomed more than 125 current and prospective students, alumnae, faculty, staff and friends to take part in workshops, panel discussions, and mock classes as part of the 2013 Women in Business Conference. The planning process among the two other co-chairs and I began in the spring. In the end, the hard work we put into determining the programming, gathering sponsorships, marketing the event, and managing registrations really paid off! Under the theme “No Limits,” conference attendees participated in a number of programs focused on empowering business leaders – men and women – to take action, guiding their professional and personal lives in the direction they wish. We wanted to convey the message that it is up to you to propel your career and your life to where you want it to be. There are resources around to help you, but be motivated in the fact that there are many things you can make possible. Conference sessions included:
Laurel Richie D’81, President of the Women’s National Basketball Association, delivered Friday’s keynote address. As she walked dinner guests through her own leadership journey working in a traditionally male-dominated industry, Laurel reflected on the importance of taking risks in order to find greater opportunities. The following day Anne Drapeau T’92, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Talent at Iron Mountain, addressed conference participants. While Anne applauded the advancement of women in the workplace, she highlighted the need for women and men to truly partner in these endeavors. Anne emphasized the need to not only include men in the process but to also expand the conversation to address the issue of support for men in non-traditional roles. Thank you to all who attended and we look forward to seeing you back up in Hanover again soon! Click here to learn more about Tuck's Women in Business Club. |
21 Nov 2013, 14:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Tiny Tuckie on the way! |
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I can't believe how long it's been since my last post! It's been quite a busy fall for Will and me: I'm pleased to share we'll be welcoming our very own Tiny Tuckie this spring!! Our baby will arrive just about a month before graduation. We're so excited and so thrilled that our little one will be here in time to meet all his or her Tuck aunties and uncles. We chose Halloween to announce our happy news to our wider Tuck family. There's no shortage of theme parties at Tuck, and people go all out for Halloween--it being, of course, the mother of all dress-up events. Will and I dressed up as Prince William and Kate Middleton (complete with a faux-baby belly, since I'm not bumping quite that much yet!) to share our happy news. It was so much fun!   Needless to say, the support from the Tuck community we've received so far has been incredible. Friends are already offering to babysit, cook meals, and organize showers. Once again I'm humbled by (and in awe of) how special and caring a community Tuck offers all in its fold: students and partners alike. Unfortunately this means I'm retired from my career as a Tripod hockey player, although that won't keep me from cheering at the games and heading on the annual (incredible) Montreal trip this January!! |
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24 Nov 2013, 16:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: First Snow! |
 We got our first real snowfall of the season yesterday. It wasn't much, just a couple inches, but it's just enough to transform the landscape into a bit of a winter wonderland. It was fun to watch the snow fall last night, and the boys loved playing with their snow shovels and having their first snowball fight this morning. 
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25 Nov 2013, 09:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Colgate Palmolive Comes to Tuck |
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Several Tuck alums who work at Colgate Palmolive, including Michael Sload T’89, Vice President & General Manager, Global Personal Care returned to Hanover to provide students interested in marketing careers with two days of training. On Thursday, they led a group of 30 students on marketing store checks around the Upper Valley and on Friday, they conducted over 25 one-on-one mock interviews to help students prepare for interviewing season. Erin (T’15) graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with majors in economics and math. Before Tuck, she worked in corporate finance at EMC Corporation and at Bausch + Lomb. At Tuck, she is exploring opportunities in marketing and general management, is learning Indian dance from some classmates and is loving tripod hockey. Part of being at Tuck is learning to view the world in new ways. Thanks to the marketing team from Colgate, 30 Tuckies will never view shopping or marketing in the same way again! A group of Tuck alums who now work in the marketing department of Colgate spent an entire afternoon and evening with us. We started off with a classroom session on Shopper Marketing, to set the foundation for the rest of the afternoon. Did you know that 50% of consumers make their decision on which product to purchase when they are in the store? This means that marketing can’t stop at TV, magazine and online advertisements. Brands need to be able to stand out and get your attention when you are at the store. But how do they do this? To see firsthand, the Colgate marketers took us out of the classroom and into the stores! Over the course of the afternoon, we went to Wal-Mart, Walgreens, grocery stores and BJs. We started thinking about many different questions as we ventured out. When you buy toothpaste, was it on your list before you walked into the store? When you find the toothpaste aisle, are you stopping at the first toothpaste in the aisle? Looking for your favorite brand? Trying to find the toothpaste that matches the coupon you cut from the Sunday paper? Are you trying to whiten your smile for Tuck’s Fall Formal? Or just trying to prevent cavities? The Colgate team explained that they have to think about how each of their targeted shoppers would answer these questions. Making it more complex, if you are going into Wal-Mart for toothpaste, you are probably answering these questions differently than if you are going into Walgreens. By going into the different stores we could see how these questions and answers led to prices, promotions and product placement at each store. Since Colgate also owns Palmolive, Speedstick and Irish Spring, we also got to see how these questions, answers and solutions vary across categories. We also became more aware of the strategy of each store, and how the brand’s strategy needs to complement the store’s strategy. (Ever notice that Wal-Mart has many more big displays in the middle of the aisle than Target? Ever notice that the full price in a grocery store is much higher than Wal-Mart but the sale price in a grocery store is much lower than Wal-Mart?) With so many different, moving pieces, it’s clear that there would never be a dull moment working at Colgate! To round off the day, we headed to Murphy’s (a favorite watering hole of Tuckies past and present.) Over Happy Hour, we got the opportunity to ask more questions about Colgate and about the team’s fondest memories of their two years at Tuck! |
26 Nov 2013, 09:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Career Treks: An Intimate Look into the Energy Sector |
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Jeph Shaw is a T’15 originally from Western Massachusetts. After graduating from Tufts University in 2007, he joined the technology group of an investment bank in Boston focusing on Merger and Acquisition advisory. Most recently, he worked in energy private equity with a firm based in Hanover, focusing on renewable energy infrastructure. Given the small size of Tuck's program, I’ve been surprised by the number of classmates who share my interest in energy and the breadth of their interests. The hub of energy interest on campus at the graduate level is the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative, a joint club of Tuck, Thayer School of Engineering and Vermont Law School. Energy learning at Tuck has also taken a big step forward from a curriculum standpoint with the establishment of the Revers Energy Initiative, which will endow a full-time professor focused on energy. Having worked at a company in the renewable energy industry based right here in Hanover, I was already aware of a lot of the activity and players in the region, but I continue to be surprised the depth of close-by energy activity, and by the strength of the Tuck alumni presence. At a recent lunch on campus, a visiting alum who founded a large energy private equity fund advised - even those students focused specifically on oil and gas - to consider staying away from Houston to keep their thinking differentiated. When considering what cities to visit for potential energy-focused career “treks”, we didn’t have to look further than Boston to find a cluster of activity around cleantech and energy finance that spoke to the interests of a diverse group of students across Tuck and Thayer. Last month, a group of about 12 Tuck and 8 Thayer students made the two and a half hour drive, stopping first in Waltham (a suburb of Boston often considered the center of its technology activity). The groups split up between an early commercial stage wind technology company and a waste-to-energy development company. I went with the wind group, into an office in a converted mill building that looked like it could have housed a social media startup. We got a great glimpse into the commercialization process from the perspective of a T’13 who was working on developing the first set of commercial scale projects using the company’s technology - a really exciting and important inflection point for the company. From Waltham, we headed east into Cambridge, where we met with a grid scale energy storage start-up. The front office where we entered had the look of a trading floor. From there we toured a working R&D lab in the basement and then sat with several members of the business team, including the CEO (a Tuck alum) who gave us some background on his career spanning energy consulting, public-sector work and cleantech IT, and explained why his current opportunity was the most exciting yet. From a basement lab in Cambridge we headed to a skyscraper boardroom in the Back Bay, where we enjoyed a warm welcome from a large energy-focused private equity investment firm (literally, they baked warm cookies for us). Once there, several Tuck alums who met with us provided both a unique “macro” view of the energy industry as well as a “micro” view of the way they drive value in their portfolio companies. The day concluded in the Seaport at the offices of a cleantech IT company, where again several enthusiastic Tuck alums greeted us, this time with much-appreciated cold refreshments. While some of us envied these recent grads’ opportunity to work on really interesting strategic issues at high levels of responsibility, they indicated similar envy for the fact that we were on our way back to Tuck for a weekend of fun with classmates. Some of us stayed in town for an energy symposium at a large Boston-area business school the following day. While the compelling panel topics and knowledgeable speakers made for a worthwhile day, I think the other attendees from Tuck shared my opinion that the contrast to the intimacy of the previous day versus the relative anonymity of the larger conference was a great demonstration of the impact of Tuck’s unique community. |
27 Nov 2013, 07:00
| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Career Treks - Energy in Houston, TX |
 Tanmay is a first year student at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Prior to business school, he spent 4 years working with Shell. He has worked in several roles including internal consulting, project management and engineering design for major oil and gas projects at various locations across Asia. Tanmay graduated from IIT Madras in 2009 with a bachelors and masters in Chemical engineering. He is an active member of the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative and the Tuck Soccer Club. Last week, 13 first year MBA students travelled to Houston for the Tuck Energy Trek. The energy trek was in the planning for over a month and we were all very excited to finally get on a plane. The flight was delayed but that did not dampen our spirits. Everyone was excited and ready to meet Chevron early Thursday morning. We then visited Schlumberger business consulting office in the afternoon.  My favorite part of the trek was Thursday evening when Tuckies in Houston welcomed us with an ‘Energy Trek Happy Hour’. The great reception we received from Tuck alumni was no surprise. We have come to expect it from our interactions with the Tuck alumni over the past few months. All of us had great conversations with the alumni and heard some great stories from their time at Tuck. Friday was a busy day with visits to Bain, BCG and McKinsey in the morning, afternoon and evening respectively. We had great interactions at all the three offices with engaging discussions in small groups. The heavy presence of energy in the Houston offices of all the firms was evident from the interactions. Given that everyone in the group was interested in energy, the discussions ranged from broad topics such as future energy scenarios to focused discussions on specific projects by consultants at the Houston offices. We were very happy to see not only Tuckies but everyone in the offices welcome us and discuss their experiences of working and living in Houston. The opportunity to meet people at the offices and talk to them in small groups enabled all of us understand the culture at each firm as well as develop great relationships. A big thank you to the Tuckies who made the visit to the Houston offices possible. The trek received an overwhelming positive response from all the firms as they really appreciated the group travelling all the way to Houston from Hanover. We had a fun Friday evening to wrap up the trek with a delicious Tex Mex dinner at El Teimpo. The energy in the group is high after the trek and we all are looking forward to the upcoming recruiting season with excitement. 
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