India

As the first globally distributed business school in the world, Fuqua has a critical relationship with India, but it is not new. Duke has always been a destination of choice for top students from India, and Duke is expanding that footprint with a number of programs in India, including:

Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) works with the top-ranked Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad (IIM-A) to develop and deliver custom corporate education programs to organizations throughout India.

Duke Engage provides an opportunity for Duke undergraduates to pursue an immersive service experience while working with NGOs and non-profits across India. 

Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) offered a residential pilot program for academically gifted eighth-grade Indian students.

Duke Medicine, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Sanford School of Public Policy are engaged in various research or teaching partnerships with Indian organizations as diverse as the state of Utter Pradesh, the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Jubilant Organosys, and Medicity.

India continues to be a major source for our MBA application pool and represents a significant portion of our student body. Every year Fuqua brings an increasing number of students to India as part of the Global Executive, Cross Continent, and Daytime MBA programs. Also, in 2011, more than 200 Duke MBA students visited India to learn how business was done in one of the world's most vibrant economies. 

We continue to rely on our partners, including our India Advisory Board to help guide us through complexities of doing business in the country.

Dan McCleary
Regional Director, India
Director of Program Strategy
mccleary@duke.edu

Dan McCleary is the Director of Program Strategy at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and is also Interim Regional Director for India. In the Program Strategy role, he is responsible for identifying opportunities and implementing solutions to improve end-to-end MBA program quality. McCleary was previously the Director of Admissions at Fuqua, with a concentration on recruitment and admission in the Indian market. As Interim Director for India, he will be the liaison to Fuqua's India Advisory Board, and will oversee the recruitment of students from India to The Duke MBA—Cross Continent and Global Executive programs. 

McCleary holds a BA from New York University, and prior to coming to Duke, had a decade of experience working for media companies including Thomson/Reuters and The Washington Post Company.

Debu Purohit
Academic Director, India
Professor of Business Administration
purohit@duke.edu

Debu Purohit is Professor of Business Administration at The Fuqua School of Business, where he also serves as Faculty Director for India and previously served as Associate Dean of The Duke MBA—Cross Continent program.

Purohit's teaching and research interests include marketing high technology products and marketing strategy. He teaches a second year elective on marketing of high technology in the MBA program. He has been involved in executive education programs at Duke and the University of California, Berkeley and teaches in various executive education programs such as Marketing Leadership Forum and Program for Manager Development. In addition, Purohit teaches in custom executive education programs for companies including ABB, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Progress Energy and Siemens.

Click here for Debu Purohit's full biography.  

Duke India Advisory Board

Our active board advises the university on strategies for expanding and enhancing Duke's presence in India. The advisory board, consisting of graduates of Duke University and Fuqua's MBA programs, also assist Duke in forging new partnerships in the country. Board members are: 

• Board Chairman: Malvinder Singh, Chairman of Fortis Healthcare
• Shri. Amit Mitra, Finance and Excise Minister - Govt. Of West Bengal
• Suhail Nathani, Partner, Economics Law Practice
• Timothy Kasbe, Chief Information Officer, Reliance
• Sanjith Shetty, Vice Chairman, Soham Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
• Devinjit Singh, Managing Director-Asia, Carlyle Group
• Shivinder Singh, CEO and Managing Director, Fortis Healthcare Limited
• Vikrampati Singhania, Deputy Managing Director, J.K. Organization
• Bharat Tandon, President and CEO, SABIC India Pvt. Ltd.

Duke Corporate Education

Founded in July 2000, Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) is Duke University's corporate education arm and sister organization to Fuqua. It has been consistently ranked the world's No. 1 provider of customized executive education programs for the past nine years. In 2006, Duke CE formed a collaborative arrangement with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to develop and deliver custom corporate education programs to organizations throughout India. Duke CE's India office is based at IIM-A's new campus in Ahmedabad. Program topics have included leadership development, functional excellence, and strategy execution. For more information, email Nikhil Raval at Nikhil.Raval@dukece.com.

Duke CE's current and past clients in India include: 

• State Bank of India (SBI)
• Aditya Birla Group
• Bank of America (BoA) India
• Genpact
• Bharat Petroleum (BPCL)
• Infosys Technologies
• Microsoft India
• IBM India
• Oil India

Duke CE's global clients with a significant Indian presence include:

• Rolls Royce
• Rio Tinto
• HSBC
• United Business Media
• IBM
• Balfour Betty
• Fidelity
• HSBC
• Anglo Platinum
• Novartis

Alumni Clubs

Fuqua boasts more than 30 alumni clubs around the world, including in India. Visit the Fuqua alumni club's page to learn more about the latest events and activities of the clubs. For questions about Fuqua's alumni clubs, please contact Katie Thomasson, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, at katie.thomasson@duke.edu.

A (Duke) Passage to India

Duke University President Richard Brodhead, former Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard and other representatives from Duke visited India in October 2008 to build existing relationships. Learn more about the visit on the Passage to India blog.

Through our extensive recruiter network, Fuqua alumni work across the globe. Our alumni are currently in positions at a number of fine organizations within the region. A representative, but not exhaustive, list is below: