Paul Danos reappointed as Dean of Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth

Posted 04/12/99

Dartmouth President James Wright has announced that Paul Danos, Dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth, has accepted reappointment to that position for a second four-year term.

Danos became the ninth Dean of the Tuck School in July 1995. He is also the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration at Tuck.

Wright commented, "Dean Danos has been an outstanding leader who has, while strengthening Tuck's ongoing programs, also pursued an exceptional array of important initiatives. Among other things, he has sought to make Tuck an international leader in the use of technology in business education, increased support for research at Tuck, planned important new academic and residential space, and -- most importantly -- recruited outstanding new faculty who are building upon Tuck' s historical commitment to excellence in teaching and research."

Before joining Tuck, Danos was Senior Associate Dean at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration, where he was also the Arthur Andersen & Co. Professor of Accounting from 1985 to 1995. He was Chairman of the Accounting Department at the University of Michigan from 1984-1991 and Director of the Paton Accounting Center from 1988-1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974.

Since Danos became Dean, Tuck has embarked on a comprehensive array of initiatives including:

• Expansion of the full-time faculty to 40, with a goal of recruiting 5 new faculty members by 2001.
• Creation of a unique research scientist group at the Tuck School, enhanced computing support, and innovative research centers such as The Center for Asia and Emerging Economies; The John Foster Center for Private Equity; and The Center for Corporate Governance.

• Tuck is a leader in attracting and placing young business leaders. The school receives approximately 3,000 applications per year for 180 places in each entering class, with accepted applicants averaging approximately 670 on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT).
• Placement in jobs within three months of graduation averages 99 percent of the class. Average starting salaries for Tuck graduates are among the highest of any business school.
• Completion of planning for the construction of Whittemore Hall, a 60-bed state-of-the-art residential facility, slated to open in September of 2000

• Establishment of major alliances in Europe and Asia and a mentoring relationship that helps to keep international contacts flowing among students, faculty and staff. The most comprehensive of these relationships are with Templeton College at Oxford University in England and HEC School of Management in Paris, both highly prestigious business programs with whom Tuck has joint executive programs and exchanges professors and MBA students.
• Partnership with the International University of Japan, which provides innovative programs in interactive video conferencing between Hanover and Japan.
• Cooperation with the Vietnamese government, under the auspices of its Center for Asia and Emerging Economies, to establish the Hanoi School of Business, training faculty and instructing executives in a series of short programs in Vietnam and in Hanover.
• Ongoing student exchange programs with business schools worldwide, featuring a course that takes Tuck students into emerging economies in comprehensive field projects.
• Creation of a language program through a partnership with Dartmouth's Rassias Foundation.

• Developed one of the most comprehensive technology infrastructures of any business school. The Whittemore Wing, the Bosworth Study Center, and computerized classrooms and study space form a flexible, hi-tech learning environment second to none.
• "TuckStreams, " a comprehensive, web-based information system, allows students to access information relating to their classes, library services, and every aspect of their lives at Tuck.
• A state-of-the-art alumni database, accessible to staff and students and several systems that allow seamless access to financial databases as well.

• The Business Bridge Program, initiated in 1997, brings approximately 200 undergraduates from top liberal arts colleges to Hanover to attend one-month sessions introducing them to business concepts and practices. After graduation from college, most Bridge students are employed by major businesses and return to MBA programs after several years of experience.
• New executive education offerings, with custom-made programs and distance education in England, China, Vietnam and Japan.
• Alumni executive participation via teleconferencing allows Tuck graduates to mentor current students via the Internet and other state-of-the-art technologies.
• Tuck's minority executive programs are among the most extensive in the world and the school is forging ties with the Drama Department at Dartmouth by creating a path for minority arts managers in executive programs.
• Scholarships for minorities to attend several of its programs including: LEAD (initiated in 1997) for minority high school students who attend Tuck classes for a month; Bridge, where corporate scholarships allow students from Spelman, Morehouse and Howard universities to attend; and the Minority Business Executive Program (MBEP) where Tuck arranges scholarships of over $400,000 a year.

"I am delighted to have this opportunity to continue to serve the Tuck School and Dartmouth College," Danos said. "As we approach our centennial in the year 2000, we will continue to provide an outstanding education for students who will become outstanding global business leaders. We will foster research and maintain the standard of superlative teaching that has become the hallmark of the Tuck School, and we will continue to connect our students to the challenges and opportunities that have become a part of the complex global economy."

Danos' current and past professional associations include: Board of Directors of XYAN Corporation; New Hampshire Governor Shaheen's State Consensus Revenue Estimating Panel; Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council; Founding Advisory Board of Ledyard National Bank in Hanover, NH; Advisory Council for the University of Notre Dame College of Business Administration; National Taiwan University Advisory Board; and Board of Overseers of The Rassias Foundation. His current research areas include: the economics of auditing and how audit firms compete, new models of business school education, and philosophy of science.

The Tuck School of Business Administration, founded in 1900, was the first graduate school of business administration in the world.