Academics

Tuck students can work with faculty on case development, participate in self-designed independent studies, choose a first-year project with a social or environmental focus, and consult for NGOs internationally.

Here are a few examples:

A group of T'11s traveled to Zanzibar for field research on their First-Year Project (FYP) dealing with the potental for aqua culture as a means of economic livelihood and enhanced quality of life.
As an independent study project, a group of students analyzed the economics of wind farms. The study was done at the request of Dartmouth’s Office of Facilities Management and the Office of the President. They provided an economic and strategic analysis of various options from purchasing wind credits from Texas to investing in a local wind farm project.
In another independent study, a group of students worked with faculty from Dartmouth Medical School to help develop sustainable funding for the research and clinical work Dartmouth is doing in Tanzania. The Dartmouth doctors are making great progress in developing a vaccination for tuberculosis, but needed better financial reporting systems and greater understanding of how other programs get funded.
A nonprofit has been running a successful high school semester abroad and gap year program in Ladakh, India. They have an opportunity to expand to Bhutan. A group of students in the Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector class analyzed this highly-fragmented, international study market and made recommendations about how to differentiate this program, how to utilize alumni and how to make the program financially secure.
Building on the Business Strategies for Sustainability course, a T’10 explored how companies can leverage open innovation resources to implement new sustainability innovations and strategies. He evaluated how companies might best capture shared information and patents with goals to help green the supply chain, lower transportation costs, and improve overall efficiencies.
The subject of racial insensitivity in the workplace was a true-life ethical dilemma written as a case study by students for Prof. Aine Donovan's Ethics in Action course. In the spring '09, the students' case won first place in the LMU/ECOA Intercollegiate Business Ethics Case Competiton, held in Los Angeles.
Two students wrote a case with Professor John Vogel about a LEED-certified, mixed-use building in Birmingham, Alabama. The case is taught in both the fall and winter term Real Estate courses. Another student wrote a case on Fiji Water with Professor Paul Argenti that is used in the Corporate Responsibility course.