What is Team Fuqua?
Team Fuqua. It’s a term you constantly hear in our community. Ask for a definition and a hundred people will tell you a hundred stories to illustrate what it means to them. Synthesizing these stories,... Read More
Tag: Applicable Knowledge
Peer-to-Peer Learning in the Program
Have you ever been in a crisis? How did you respond? Our Weekend Executive MBA '18 cohort has self-organized a few speaker panels throughout the program to afford fellow classmates an opportunity to share their... Read More
What are the Program Benefits for a Veteran and How Will I Fit In?
Why Fuqua and Why the Weekend Executive MBA? As I was poised to leave active duty, I wanted to stack the deck in my favor. The goal was to ensure that the civilian career path... Read More
How We Won the Inaugural Case Competition
The real question was—how much more could we fit into our schedule? When we were informed about an Accenture-sponsored case competition for our Weekend Executive MBA class, a lot of excitement was generated around the idea. We... Read More
Seeing Operations Management Concepts in Action
Sitting in Operations Management class during Term 3 of my Weekend Executive MBA program at Duke, it became apparent to me that many of my classmates had never seen an actual manufacturing plant in person.... Read More
Reflections as a Fuqua Alumna
As students both young and old headed back to the classroom this past fall, it became extremely apparent to me that I was no longer one of them. No more evening reading. No more team meetings.... Read More
Bootcamp: The Essentials of Health Care Management
It was late afternoon on a Friday, but I was feeling energized—and for once it wasn’t because the weekend was coming! I had just spent the past week at Fuqua attending the Health Sector Management... Read More
Benefits of the Health Sector Management Program
Prior to my MBA, I had been a practicing physician for 15 years, with some experience in medical group as well as hospital administrative leadership duties. However, when I decided to pursue a role that focused more on... Read More
Benefits of The Duke MBA for Physicians
I'm a physician and have been on faculty at Duke University going on six years as an endocrinologist who specializes in thyroid diseases. For the last two years, I have been the vice chief of... Read More
Surviving Through Term 3!
I’ve survived Term 3, which means I'm half-way through the Weekend Executive MBA (WEMBA) journey. In the Term 2 and 3 courses, I have not only learned about the detail orientation needed to manage business,... Read More