Our Faculty
All of our degree programs are taught by Fuqua’s top-ranked faculty, who are recognized for excellence in teaching and industry-shaping research. The courses they teach are academically challenging and relevant to the business world today. Despite world-class credentials, our faculty is highly accessible—they emphasize an open-door policy that encourages both collaboration with students and interdisciplinary thinking. Often, these teachers become your mentors for life.
Our Teaching Methods
Fuqua’s professors use lectures, cases studies, strategic games, simulations, visiting executives, and their own research to create a dynamic learning experience that pushes you to think and work in new and different ways. Net result? You get a deep and broad understanding of current business topics.
Making Theory Real
1. Case Studies
Case studies are real examples of corporate challenges that give you the opportunity to put theory to work. You gain industry knowledge and an appreciation for the management, operations, and leadership challenges that companies face every day.
2. Strategic Games
We've all played games before, but in an MBA classroom they take on a whole new meaning. Fuqua teaches you to recognize patterns and understand the basic nature of games. You’ll learn to identify what is happening around you and that you’re part of, so you can see the big picture, your options, and possible outcomes.
3. Realistic Simulations
The use of sophisticated business simulation teaches you how to run a company in a realistic business environment. You’ll get hands-on experience that goes way beyond what you’d learn in a textbook.
4. Research Centers
Our research centers are vital links between academic inquiry and real-world business. They create insights, dialogue, and curricula that change the course of business and enrich the student experience. Each research center draws on faculty from across Fuqua's academic areas, experienced practitioners, and students to address current business problems.
In ten months, Accelerated Daytime MBA students complete a combination of required and elective courses. Some course titles are subject to change.
- Orientation (3 days)
- Summer (4 weeks)
- Entrepreneurial Action and Mindset (required)
- Technology Driven Transformation of Business (required)
- Business Computer Applications (required)
- CLEAD 1 (required)
- Fall 1 (6 weeks)
- Electives (3-4)
- Fall 2 (6 weeks)
- Electives (3-4)
- Winter
- Optional elective workshop in Managerial Improvisation
- Spring 1 (6 weeks)
- Electives (3)
- Spring 2 (6 weeks)
- Business and Common Purpose in a World of Differences (required)
- Electives (3)
2023-2024 Accelerated Daytime MBA Academic Calendar
Month | Date | Event |
July 2023 | ||
July 2023 | 10 - 21 | Business, Communications, and Culture Program [optional, unless required by Admissions] |
14 | Business Computer Applications course opens, Online Modules [mandatory], first day of classes | |
17 - 21 | Math Review Course [optional, unless required by admissions] | |
23 - 28 | Health Sector Management (HSM) Boot Camp [required for HSM Certificate] | |
31 | Duke I&E Innovators' Spark [optional] | |
August 2023 | ||
August 2023 | 1 | International Students Welcome Day |
2 - 4 | First Year Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA Orientation | |
7 | First Day of Classes for First Year MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA Students | |
7 - 28 | First Year MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA Student Classes [no classes on weekends] | |
29 - 31 | First Year and Accelerated MBA Exams | |
30 - 31 |
Class of 2024 C-Lead Course | |
September 2023 | ||
September, 2023 | 5 - 6 | Career Management Center Programming [optional] |
7 | Fall Term 1 classes begin | |
October 2023 | ||
October 2023 | 17 | Fall Term 1 classes end |
19 - 21 | Fall Term 1 exams | |
22 - 29 | FALL BREAK | |
30 | Fall Term 2 classes begin | |
November 2023 | ||
November 2023 | 22 - 24 | THANKSGIVING BREAK |
December 2023 | ||
December 2023 | 12 | Fall Term 2 classes end |
14 - 16 | Fall Term 2 exams | |
17 | WINTER BREAK BEGINS | |
January 2024 | ||
January 2024 | 8 - 12 | Managerial Improvisation Course [optional Winter Term] |
18 | Spring Term 1 classes begin | |
February 2024 | ||
February 2024 | 27 | Spring Term 1 classes end |
Feb - March 2024 | ||
Feb - March 2024 | 29 - 2 | Spring Term 1 exams |
March 2024 | ||
March 2024 | 3 - 17 | SPRING BREAK |
18 | Spring Term 2 classes begin | |
April 2024 | ||
April 2024 | 26 | Spring Term 2 classes end |
Apr - May 2024 | ||
Apr - May 2024 | 29 - 1 | Spring Term 2 exams |
May 2024 | ||
May 2024 | 11 | Class of 2024 Daytime MBA and Accelerated MBA Commencement Ceremony |
12 | Class of 2024 Duke-wide Commencement Ceremony |
2024-2025 Accelerated Daytime Daytime MBA Academic Calendar
Month | Date | Event |
July 2024 | ||
July 2024 | 8 - 19 | Business, Communications, and Culture Program [optional, unless required by Admissions] |
12 | Business Computer Applications course opens, Online Modules [mandatory], first day of classes | |
15 - 19 | Math Review Course [optional, unless required by Admissions] | |
21 - 26 | Health Sector Management (HSM) Boot Camp [required for HSM Certificate] | |
29 | Duke I&E Innovators' Spark [optional] | |
30 | International Student Welcome Day | |
July - August 2024 | ||
July - August 2024 | 31 - 2 | First Year MBA Student (Class of 2026) Orientation |
August 2025 | ||
August 2025 | 5 | First Day of Classes for First-Year Daytime MBA Students |
5 - 26 | First Year Daytime MBA Student Classes [no classes on weekends] | |
27 - 29 | First Year Daytime Student Exams | |
28 - 29 | Class of 2025 C-Lead Course | |
September 2024 | ||
September 2024 | 3 | Pre-Term Accounting Review [optional] |
3 – 4 | Career Management Center Programming | |
5 | FALL 1 SESSION BEGINS | |
October 2024 | ||
October 2024 | 15 | Fall 1 Session Ends |
17 - 19 | Fall 1 Exams | |
20 - 27 | FALL BREAK | |
28 | FALL 2 SESSION BEGINS | |
November 2024 | ||
November 2024 | 27 - 29 | THANKSGIVING BREAK |
December 2024 | ||
December 2024 | 10 | Fall 2 Session Ends |
12 - 14 | Fall 2 Exams | |
15 | WINTER BREAK BEGINS | |
January 2025 | ||
January 2025 | 6 - 10 | Managerial Improvisation Course (optional Winter Term) |
16 | SPRING 1 SESSION BEGINS | |
February 2025 | ||
February 2025 | 25 | Spring 1 Session Ends |
Feb - March 2025 | ||
Feb - March 2025 | 27 - 1 | Spring 1 Exams |
March 2025 | ||
March 2025 | 2 - 16 | SPRING BREAK |
17 | SPRING 2 SESSION BEGINS | |
April 2025 | ||
April 2025 | 25 | Spring 2 Session Ends |
28 - 30 | Spring 2 Exams | |
May 2025 | ||
May 2025 | 10 | Class of 2025 Daytime MBA Commencement Ceremony |
11 | Class of 2025 Duke-wide Commencement Ceremony |