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How Duke Helps Students Connect
Sheryle Dirks of the Fuqua School’s Career Management Center talks about her efforts to customize the recruiting process
In 2005, about 85% of graduates at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University had job offers by May, and 92% had job offers by August. This year, the school rolled out a new Intranet system to help students manage their on-campus recruiting process. That was a priority of Sheryle Dirks, the director of the school’s Career Management Center (CMC), who says she wants to focus on customizing services for students. With the new Intranet, MBA candidates can apply for jobs, sign up for counseling, bid on interview slots, post job leads, and network with other students.
Before coming to Fuqua in 1998, Dirks worked as the director of admissions at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Illinois. During a brief hiatus from Fuqua in 2003, she was a consultant for North Carolina State University. Dirks recently spoke with BusinessWeek Online project assistant Janie Ho. Here are edited excerpts of their conversation
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Duke University's Fuqua School of Business joined last year with Frankfurt University's Goethe Business School to offer an executive M.B.A. program that gives students an M.B.A. from both Duke and Goethe. The 22-month program takes place mainly in Frankfurt, with two weeks' instruction at the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina. Tuition costs €48,000 euros ($61,000), and the vast majority of students are sponsored by their companies. Classes are taught in English, primarily by Duke faculty.
Duke started a Frankfurt campus in 1999 but closed it in 2002 amid lackluster enrollments. After that experience, Duke decided instead to emphasize partnerships ...
Broadwick CEO Ryan Allis to speak at Duke MBA Marketing Symposium - Aug 30
Broadwick Corp. CEO Ryan P. Allis will be speaking at the Duke MBA Marketing Symposium on Wednesday, August 30 at the Duke campus in Durham, NC. The forum is designed to give Duke Fuqua MBA students a unique opportunity to learn about and explore a diverse set of companies and careers in the field of marketing.
The symposium will include representatives from Heinz, Frito Lay, Pepsi, Unilever, Burts Bees, Procter & Gamble, Merck, Eli Lilly, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Express, Octagon Sports, CMGP, McKinsey, IBM and
Susan Deborah Duke, an associate with the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, was married in Princeton, N.J., yesterday to Daniel A. Biederman, executive director of the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation in New York. Cantor Raymond Smolover performed the ceremony in the garden of Prospect House at Princeton University.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Duke of Los Angeles, was graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from the Law School of the University of Chicago. Her father is president of Duke
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is once again offering help to businesses in the Triangle who are seeking consulting services.
MBA students are available to work with firms that can’t afford to pay consulting fees. Students will receive course credit for their efforts.
Fuqua students have worked with more than 300 companies over the 25 years of the program.
To be eligible for the program, businesses must meet certain criteria:
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The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, have launched an executive education initiative called 'Global Leaders Programme: Growing and Innovating in a Flat World'. This programme will run in India between August 20 and 27, and in the USA between September 17 and 24.
The Global Leaders Program me (GLP) is framed with the aim to combine IIM-A's expertise in the socio-economic reality of the fast-growing Asian region with the leadership of Duke with its insights into the developed markets. The programme offers a comprehensive global business perspective for executives leading global organisations
In the largest cheating scandal in the history of Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business, 34 MBA students face steep penalties after university officials determined they collaborated on answers of an exam.
Nine students face expulsion, said Mike Hemmerich, an associate dean at the business school. Fifteen will receive a one-year suspension from the school along with a failing grade in the course. Nine will get only a failing grade in the course. One student received a failing grade for the exam. Four students were found not guilty. All were from the Class of 2008.
Federal privacy laws prevent naming the involved
The cheating episode at Duke University may cause academics to conclude the post-Enron emphasis on teaching ethics in graduate business schools is a failure.
Thirty-four first-year masters of business administration students at Dukes Fuqua School of Business were disciplined in the programs largest cheating scandal. Nine students face expulsion for collaborating on a take-home test, violating the professors rules.
Business students are more likely to cut corners than those in any other academic discipline, several studies show. A Rutgers University survey last year found that cheating at business schools is common, even after ethics courses were added following scandals that
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- R. Edward Coleman, director of the nuclear medicine division at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., was awarded the 2007 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the nuclear medicine profession. The award was presented June 3 during the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the worlds largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, June 2–6 in Washington, D.C.
With this award, SNM recognizes that Dr. Colemans work has had a meaningful and significant impact on molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice, said SNM President Martin P. Sandler. The list of previous
Last month the media provided extensive coverage of a report that 34 first-year MBA students at Duke University were being expelled or otherwise punished for collaborating on a take-home exam. Some have questioned whether the faculty involved in administering this exam took adequate precautions to discourage such collaboration while the attitude of others has been what would you expect from students in a high-profile, competitive MBA program. A few people have even suggested that what these students did is no big deal.
Whatever your view, research suggests that business students are more willing to engage in academic dishonesty than other
WORK IS ON: The foot overbridge on Avanashi Road near PSG College of Technology. - Photo: S. Siva Saravanan
COIMBATORE: With 4,000 students crossing it at least four times a day, a foot overbridge on the busy Avinashi Road (on NH 47) near PSG College of Technology is a dire need.
As the concrete structure of the bridge developed cracks about a week ago, it is being brought down now. The entire bridge will be removed by April 15, says C.R. Swaminathan, Chief Executive of PSG Institutions.
The institution was initially looking at a simple steel structure that would connect
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