Duke Global Executive MBA Student Blog

Between school, work, and personal obligations, staying focused and positive in an executive MBA program is a challenge, but it’s not impossible if you have the right mindset.

After three weeks of classes and pre-residency preparation, my Global Executive MBA classmates and I descended on the vibrant city of Bangkok, Thailand.

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.

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.

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.