Written by: Marc Ethier
Published by: Poets&Quants
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: An economic recession and severe application downturn were only the opening acts of the turbulent era during which Luke Anthony Peña served as executive director of MBA admissions and financial aid at the Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business. Then coronavirus hit. Yet as Peña prepares to leave the Tuck School this month after just three years, he leaves behind a B-school with as strong an incoming MBA class in key metrics as any in recent history — and one that also makes history with the proportion of women enrolled.
In a move announced to the school community last Friday (August 28), Peña will leave this month to return to his alma mater, Stanford University, where he will take over admissions for the world’s largest graduate scholars program. His last day at Tuck is September 18.