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From Awestruck Climate Outsider to Decarbonization Practitioner
Fuqua's energy community equipped me with knowledge and confidence, propelling me to a position of influence that I expected to spend my entire career attempting to reach.
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My Path to McKinsey: Cracking the Interview
Now that I had established consulting as my clear recruiting direction, I decided to work diligently on three fronts related to the interview process: case interviews, behavioral interviews, and mental preparedness.
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My Path to McKinsey: Discovering Consulting
When I got my admission to Fuqua, I was not even considering becoming a consultant. To be honest, I did not even know what a consultant does.
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Proving Career Success and Motherhood Can Co-Exist
The MBA, for me, is the perfect tool to become a better leader, to learn from the experiences of people from different industries and cultures, and to understand how the world is changing and transforming.
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Launching My Social Enterprise as a First-Year MBA Student
Funding earned in the Fuqua Fast Pitch competition and CASE is supporting my entrepreneurial vision.
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How Team Fuqua Helped Me Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset
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.
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My Transition from ICU Nurse to Tech
My decision to pursue an MBA at Duke came during a critical moment in March 2020, working on the frontlines of the pandemic as a nurse in a makeshift intensive care unit for COVID patients.
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How Experiential Learning at Tesla Expanded My Professional Ambitions
There is a lot to learn in the classroom, but nothing compares to putting your knowledge and skills to the test in the real world.
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Navigating the Health Care Industry with Experiential and Classroom Learning
Coming from an energy and financial services background, I knew I needed to develop my functional skills further, regardless of my industry of choice.
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Forging My Path in a Niche Industry
For the last eight years, I’ve had a deep interest in alternative proteins. However, I did not have any professional experience in the industry, and I wanted to use my time at Duke to change that.