Duke Daytime MBA Student Blog

The fellowship with the New Ventures group is an experiential learning opportunity that aims to connect Fuqua MBA students with Duke’s startup ecosystem

Time moves swiftly when career advancement, international exposure, and fun all compete to be at the core of the MBA experience. So, please put on your seatbelts, and let me take you on a quick 2-year journey.

You are probably wondering: is the entrepreneurial path as an MBA student the same as a consulting or investment banking path? The answer is no.

Funding earned in the Fuqua Fast Pitch competition and CASE is supporting my entrepreneurial vision.

The entrepreneurial mindset is about recognizing real challenges coupled with a desire to solve those challenges and create a systematic approach to deliver a solution.

I always wanted to launch my own media relations and marketing business. Fuqua gave me the tools and the community I needed.

Fuqua's partnership with Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship provides interdisciplinary curricular and co-curricular programming to students across Duke.

What’s the one tool that every entrepreneur, from Elon Musk to Muhammad Yunis to the 10- year-old girl next door selling lemonade, utilizes on a near-constant basis?

I believe that an MBA will provide access to valuable resources and a support ecosystem that will fuel my success as an entrepreneur.

Sometimes people ask me why entrepreneurship education should be taught within our MBA program if most students don’t aspire to launch a venture immediately post-graduation. The answer is twofold.