Paul Danos, Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, has been appointed to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees. He will also serve on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Board.
Danos, whose expertise includes financial accounting, corporate governance and higher education, will chair the Finance Committee of the Board and serve as Treasurer for the D-H and D-HH Boards.
“Dartmouth-Hitchcock finds itself in times of exciting opportunity, accompanied necessarily by complex challenges,” said Professor Robert A. Oden, Chairman of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board. “As the Board works with our CEO, Dr. James Weinstein, to shape what we believe will be the health care models of the future, it is essential that we continue to fulfill our responsibility for financial stewardship. We are fortunate to have right here, at Dartmouth’s Tuck School, one of America’s business education leaders, and we are more fortunate still that Dean Paul Danos has agreed to join our Board.”
Danos has been Dean of the Tuck School since 1995 and is one of the longest serving deans in management education. During his tenure, Tuck has consistently been cited for the excellence of its MBA program with student qualifications, employment levels, and compensation rates for its graduates that are at or near the highest worldwide.
In his 19-year deanship, Danos has overseen an expansion of Tuck’s world-class faculty, the building-out of its excellent residential campus infrastructure, the launch of nine centers and initiatives, and the addition of a broad array of innovations to the MBA program curriculum including further increasing student access to faculty expertise and adding to the school’s growing portfolio of global learning experiences. His own extensive travels throughout the world have significantly raised Tuck’s profile and its connections with global corporations and Tuck’s alumni.
“In recent years, the linkages between Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Tuck have increased dramatically,” said Danos. “Our students have been engaged in a number of analytical and improvement projects aimed at improving D-H operations; and Tuck has benefited from the expertise of D-H professionals, particularly through our Masters in Health Care Delivery Science Program.”
“I agree with a broad consensus that Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a leader in developing models of care that will set a standard for the nation. It is a privilege to be part of that process through membership on the Board,” Dean Danos said.
“Paul is a friend, a valued colleague, and an insightful and trusted advisor,” said D-H CEO and President Dr. James N. Weinstein. “I am simply thrilled that he will bring his experience and wisdom to the Board as we work to create a sustainable health system for our region.”
Paul Danos is the ninth Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration. Before joining Tuck, he was the Senior Associate Dean and chaired professor of accounting at the University of Michigan. Dean Danos was Chairman of the Accounting Department at the University of Michigan from 1984-1991, and he has also served as the Director of the Paton Accounting Center from 1988-1991. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974 and BS and MBA from the University of New Orleans. He is a CPA and a member of the AICPA.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire’s only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state’s only Children’s Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,500 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
