Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants!

Thanks aau, I shall be there.

To Fuqua Students, Faculty, and Staff:

On behalf of the Net Impact Club, I am writing to invite you to the upcoming Duke MBA Footprints Conference, featuring a closing keynote by Rosalind Kainyah, President, De Beers Inc, USA. During her speech, entitled "Turning Natural Resources into Shared National Wealth," she will share many of the principles De Beers has learned over the past 100 years on how, through their core business, companies can contribute to the sustainable development of communities in Africa. Ms. Kainyah has a strong passion to see African countries develop to their full potential. Her presentation will be followed by a substantial Q&A session. Please register for the conference via the link below, even if you can only attend the keynote at 4:15 p.m.

Other featured speakers include Chris Park, Principal, Deloitte Consulting; Marc Mathieu, former head of Global Brand Marketing, Coca-Cola; Dan Bross, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft; and Matt Mahan, Director of Nonprofit Relations & Business Development, Facebook Causes. Conference sessions are organized around the verticals of Marketing, Finance, Social Entrepreneurship, and General Management. Whether you are pursuing a for-profit, non-profit, or hybrid career, these topics are sure to be of interest and add value to your current or future position.

Details:
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Location: Geneen Auditorium and Various Classrooms

Registration: https://www.dukembafootprintsconference.org

Ms. Kainyah’s biography is attached. The conference planning team is soliciting questions for her visit. Please post questions at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=k ... H9wA_3d_3d

I am truly excited about this conference and hope you will join the Net Impact Club on Wednesday.

Sincerely,

Blair

You can find the current employment report here: https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba_recruitin ... tatistics/.

This shows the FT status for 08ers and internships for 09ers. It's still early for the 08-09 report to come out.

In addition to the consulting firms you mention below, there are many others, including some big ones (McK, Accenture, etc) and some boutique firms.

1. Many companies that hire on a general management track have internal strategy roles: M&T, IBM, Wal-Mart, United, Sears, many others. I don't think we have the data parsed down to that level, though.

2. I think all of the big consulting firms have operations practices, and probably a lot of the small ones too. What you need to do is find a list of consulting firms and then learn about their practice areas.

As for being an int'l student: the big consulting firms sponsor visas. In the general management world, it just depends on the company. I'm mostly familiar with financial services, so I can tell you that M&T and BB&T do not while Citi does.

Hope this helps.

Hi guys,

I'm an R2 applicant to Duke. I submitted my app on 01/07 and interviewed on-campus on a Super Satrurday (01/31). Could someone please add me to the R2 team on the first page -- thanks.

I am assuming all R2 applicants must have gotten the address update email a couple of days ago. It read something like this:

Dear shayne:

The Duke MBA Office of Admissions is preparing for the March 10 release of our
admission decisions for the current application round. Admission decisions are
communicated via e-mail and a hard copy of the decision letter is sent in the
mail. The mailing address and preferred phone number that we currently have
on file is below. Please notify our office immediately if this information has
changed to ensure that you receive this correspondence.

My address

Thank you again for your interest in The Duke MBA!

Sincerely,

The Duke MBA Office of Admissions
919-660-7705
application-processing@fuqua.duke.edu


The email mentioned preferred phone number but didn't have anything on the file for me as a phone#. I have browsed this thread and it seems as though most applicants are informed via the online system anyway. So is there even a point in emailing them back with a preferred phone #?

Hmm....have you checked your spam/junk folder?

Almost everyone on the BW forum reported to have received this email so I am pretty sure its not an indicator for anything.

All the best to you though!

Does the adcom call the applicants for R-1?

do you know what time during the day the notification email is to be sent?