More than 600 Enjoy North Carolina Sunshine at Fuqua Reunions 2008!

Many thanks to the more than 600 alumni and their families descended on Durham, North Carolina, for a great weekend of food, fun, and catching up with old friends. The members of the classes of 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2007 enjoyed the great weather and Carolina barbeque, while seeing how the school has grown and changed over the years.

Photos from the Weekend
Stay tuned to the Fuqua alumni site for photos from the weekends' festivities. If you would like to share an online album with the rest of your class, please send the link to alumni-relations@fuqua.duke.edu, and we will post it on your class Web site.

Class Gift
The reunion classed committed over $900,000 to Fuqua's Annual Fund in honor of their reunion year—more than $100,000 above the goal! Class standouts include the Global Executive MBA class of 2003, who exceeded their goal by more than 300 percent, and the Daytime MBA class of 1983, who had a 37 percent participation rate. Many thanks to all of the alumni who contributed to this outstanding effort. Your generosity is what allows us to continue to provide top-notch programs for future business leaders.

Reunion Golf Prize Winners
The weather for Saturday's Reunion Golf Outing could not have been more perfect! Alumni enjoyed a beautiful North Carolina spring morning of sunshine and perfect temperatures. Despite having to play a course that had been groomed in preparation for a USGA tour qualifying event, a few alumni stood out from the crowd.  Prizes and our congratulations are being sent to the alumni winners listed below:

Lowest Team Score (75):  Tim Jeffries, Darren Miller, Thomas Mills, and John Rice (all '03)
Lowest Individual Score (80): John Rice '03
Longest Drive - Hole #18: Todd Creech '03
Closest to the Pin - Hole #4: Mike Lorch '03
Closest to the Pin - Hole #15: John Rice '03

Moscow: Energy and the Environment

May 31-June 2, 2008
There's still time to register for the eighth Duke MBA International Retreat in Moscow. Please make plans to join us for what promises to be an energetic discussion of two pressing and intimately connected global issues. When you join Duke alumni in Moscow, you'll learn from industry leaders and world authorities how business can be both the cause of and solution to these problems. Learn more and register.

Where Are You @?

Do you get announcements for the wrong regional club? Fix that by updating your contact information in the Alumni Directory! Our regional club mailing lists are driven by the mailing address information stored in our Alumni Directory. When you keep your mailing address current, you ensure that you'll always be up-to-date on local Fuqua club happenings. If you're traveling and want to see if there's a club event in the city you're visiting, visit our alumni clubs page to see what's happening in our forty-one alumni clubs around the globe. Fuqua alumni are welcome to participate in Duke Alumni Association events in their cities as well. Check the Duke event calendar for the latest happenings in your city.

A Major Coincidence: Fuqua Friends Follow Parallel Patriotic Paths

When U.S. Army Major Michael McElrath briefed the man relieving him in Iraq back in 2006, he knew he was leaving his post in good hands. He was already familiar with the fellow taking over his job: his friend Major Chip Daniels, a fellow Fuqua alumnus. McElrath (Class of 2002) and Daniels (Class of 2003) have a third friend, Major Everett Spain, who is also a Fuqua graduate (Class of 2002) serving in Iraq on the staff of General David Petraeus. The three studied together at Fuqua and later served on the staff at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now they are using their MBA experiences to help restore Iraq's security and infrastructure. Read more.

"There Were Some Who Had Tears..." Students' Donation Will Help Provide Limbs to Needy

Sometimes simply being aware of a problem doesn't feel like it's enough. We're compelled to give, perhaps even in the most practical way possible. When nearly 100 students in The Duke MBA—Global Executive program spent a residency in early 2008 in India, they observed poverty on a scale most of us never witness. Traveling by train to visit the Taj Mahal, the students saw firsthand the challenges faced by a nation in the process of emerging as a global economic power while some of its citizens struggle to rise above an impoverished existence. The India residency included a lecture by Mr. D. R. Mehta, founder of Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), the world’s largest charitable organization offering artificial limbs free of charge to those in need. The organization is well known for the development of the “Jaipur foot,” the world’s first sub-$40 artificial foot, an inexpensive and durable prosthetic. Read more.

Introducing the 2008-2009 Alumni Fellows

The Development and Alumni Relations office is pleased to announce and welcome our eleven new Alumni Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year. We look forward to working with this group of dynamic individuals over the next year. Meet the Alumni Fellows.

In each issue, FuquaNet will ask a faculty member what he or she is reading. Here's a list of books currently on Professor Alon Brav's nightstand:

• The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Stanislas Dehaene (Oxford University Press). The book describes the number sense of infants and adults and how the adoption of symbolic systems of numerals resulted in higher mathematics. The books also offers the critical link to the workings of the brain and neuronal activity.

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks (Touchstone). This is a book by a neurologist presenting an array of neurological disorders based on fascinating cases experienced during his years of medical practice.

• Spinoza and Other Heretics, Vol. 1, Yirmiyahu Yovel (Princeton University Press). This book traces the background and environment that led to Baruch Spinoza's philosophical revolution and the radically new principle--the philosophy of immanence.

• Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, David Edmonds and John Eidinow (Faber and Faber).

Recruit Fuqua MBAs in 2008-2009

Register with the Duke MBA Career Management Center to recruit on campus in the 2008-2009 school year. Equity Partners received an invitation to begin the registration process on May 1; all other companies may register starting on May 12. Companies that recruited on campus last year will receive registration instructions via e-mail later this spring. If your company did not recruit on campus last year and would like to do so in 2008-2009, please e-mail our Employer Services Team so you will be included in this mailing. Please see our 2008-2009 recruiting calendar for important dates.

CareerToolsPLUS!

We are excited to announce a great new career service available to all Fuqua alumni. CareerToolsPLUS is a free online career resource to help you advance in your career, start your own business, find a new position, or make a career transition. You'll find company research resources, job listings, steps for a successful job search, sample resumes and cover letters, career planning information, networking tools, entrepreneurship advice, and much more. To start using CareerToolsPLUS, log in to the alumni career site, and click the link to launch CareerToolsPLUS. You will then be required to register and set up a separate user name and password in the CareerToolsPLUS application.

Post Job Opportunities for Alumni or Graduating Students

One of the best ways to advertise opportunities at your company year-round is to use our online job posting form. You can choose the audience for the role available (current students and/or alumni), and the job listing will be advertised to the appropriate audience within a few business days.

Alumni Resume Books Now Available

Are you searching for a job or looking for Duke alumni talent? The Duke MBA alumni resume book is a terrific tool. All alumni may include their profile or full resume in the book. Recruiters may order the alumni resume book through the product ordering site.

You@fuqua.duke.edu—Making the Most of the Duke Connection

by Ryan Smith, M.A., Program Director, Alumni and EMBA Career Services

Are you using all the opportunities available to sell your brand? One of the greatest advantages of graduating from Duke is the lifelong association. Whether you are in the hunt for the next career opportunity or just expanding your professional network, the Duke connection is part of your brand!

Let your investment in Duke work for you the next time you are keeping in touch with a classmate, sending a resume to a hiring manager, or just corresponding with a contact. A simple switch of your e-mail from one of the more common addresses to your Duke or Fuqua lifetime e-mail account can make a powerful statement. If you have not yet set up your lifetime e-mail or if you would like to update the target address to which it forwards, please visit the lifetime e-mail page.

Wall Street Journal Virtual Career Fair

For those alumni currently in the hunt, here is an upcoming event that may be of interest. The Wall Street Journal is hosting a Virtual Career Fair, May 6-June 4. Learn more.

Simon Bailey '05
Brian Colianni '02
Nebil Gebrael '90
Jeff Jablow '05
VaLoris MacDowell '93
Corinne Pann '92
Garrett Putman '05
Tjark Reblin '07
Nathan Rozof '06
Linda Travis '85
Carlo Wong '07

Each month FuquaNet recognizes the alumni whose birthdays fall on the issue's publication date. We asked the alumni above celebrating a birthday May 8, "Where are you now?" Here's what they said...

Upcoming Executive Education Programs

Extend your education with these upcoming programs from Duke Executive Education:

Advanced Management Program
Fall 2008
Session I: September 7-19, 2008
Session II: November 2-14, 2008
Spring 2009
Session I: April 19-May 1, 2009
Session II: June 7-19, 2009
Cost: $43,000

The Duke Leadership Program: A Multiple Domain Approach
August 17-22, 2008
November 16-21,2008
Cost: $8,500

Dynamic Management
October 5-8, 2008
Cost: $4,800

Financial Analysis and Reporting for Non-Financial Managers
September 22-26, 2008
Cost: $8,500

Global Leaders Program
Session I: January 18-25, 2009
Session II: February 22 to March 1, 2009
Cost: 21,000

See the complete program listing

Upcoming Events

Directors' Education Institute
September 24-26, 2008

Fuqua & Coach K Leadership Conference
October 20-22, 2008

Professor Dan Ariely comments in the Charlotte Observer on the temptations that accompany economic stimulus checks.

Financial Times reports on a Fuqua faculty proposal-turned-law that aims to improve global health.

Steven L. Schwarcz, founder of Duke's Global Capital Markets Center, calls on regulators to focus on the financial markets in Forbes.

The Financial Times cited a proposal developed by Duke economics professor Henry Grabowski and Fuqua School of Business professors Jeff Moe and David Ridley that is being put to work by the FDA to encourage development of new treatments for neglected diseases.

Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke, says in the Fayetteville Observer that he doesn’t see Americans making major adjustments just because gas is cleaning out their wallets.

Campbell Harvey, a Duke economist, says the current economic downturn looks different from others in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Business Week details Fuqua's Career Management Center services for alumni.

Hedgeweek features Professor Campbell Harvey's remarks on the state of the hedge fund business.

Fuqua finance professor Rebecca Zarutskie explains how a recent acquisition and the troubled mortgage market left Wachovia in need of capital on WBT Radio's Charlotte Morning News.

Fuqua management professor Jonathon Cummings shares insights from a survey of research collaborations in Nature.

The AP's national business columnist says the latest Fuqua School of Business/CFO Magazine Business Outlook survey makes clear there's a disconnect between analysts' optimistic views of their own stocks and forecasts in aggregate (Denver Post and more than 70 other outlets).

Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely says in Money magazine he isn't a logical consumer -- and neither are you.