Duke Daytime MBA Student Blog

After just a few months of working with my team, I’ve learned how to embrace other’s differences to make a strong team.

For anyone who is considering a business degree and feels concerned about their “nontraditional” path, I’d urge you to change your thinking.

I cannot rave enough about the different ways to gain experience at Fuqua that are non-traditional and highly rewarding.

I worked with teammates from diverse backgrounds, ranging from management consulting to private equity, to help position a surgical robot against a competitor.

The opportunity to get my hands dirty working on a real-life business problem, and see the impact we were making in real-time, went far beyond classroom learning for me.

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

I came to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business with the goal of building out my strategy skillset.

I knew I wanted to participate in the CASE i3 Consulting Practicum program, which pairs a team of select MBA students with an impact investing question that a company is wrestling with.

Fuqua changed up some of its core curriculum by adding a class called, “Business and Common Purpose,” bringing faculty from different areas of expertise together, so students could learn from varying perspectives.

I had heard how fast time flies once school starts, but it only really registered in mid-December while I was walking out from my last exam of the term. Time and tide wait for no man, but man did I wish I had known a few things before the craziness came and went.