Duke Global Executive MBA Student Blog

For most of my life, I chose to accept my mixed heritage, but I never really felt I had a cultural identity to fully embrace.

Muay Thai has helped me connect to my Southeast Asian roots I had a hard time identifying with before.

In the spirit of Team Fuqua, our role is to welcome new students into the Global Executive MBA community, guide them on their journey, help with any questions and share tips and best practices for their Fuqua journey.

When I entered the Global Executive MBA program at Duke, I was looking for an opportunity to be challenged and better equipped for this rapidly-evolving industry, but the experience has provided so much more than that.  

An integral part of my time at Fuqua has been interacting and spending several weeks with people from backgrounds and cultures I’d never met before.

My employer is allowing me the time and space to leave work for travel as part of the Global Executive MBA program, and it is taking on part of the cost.

Our residencies include class time, teamwork time, and excursions to different parts of the city—so the days are fun but jam-packed.

I would immediately be putting lessons from my MBA program to use in the most difficult of circumstances.

My classmates and I banded together to create a student-led initiative in an effort to develop anti-racist businesses because we feel it is up to us, current and future leaders, to shape the future strategies.

I have a unique story behind pursuing my MBA and my corporate passion: my oldest child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.