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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Duke University

Fuqua School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Duke Executive Education
      • The Fuqua School of Business
      • 100 Fuqua Drive
      • Box 90120
      • Durham, 27708, North Carolina
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 3
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 4
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 213
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1989
      • Number of classrooms: 4
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other
      • Other accreditation by: SACS

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 0
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 0
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 4

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,713
      • Full-Time MBA: 887
      • Executive MBA: 594
      • PhD Program: 85
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $4,800.00
      • High: $43,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 3 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 60 %

    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 23 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Advanced Management Program
      • Type of Course: Management Development for Senior Managers
      • Course Length: 24 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $43,000.00
      • Comments: There is a 4-6 week intersession with distance learning after the first two weeks of the program
      • Title: The Duke Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Analyzing your Leadership Style
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,500.00
      • Comments: Participants work one on one with an executive coach to develop a personal action plan
      • Title: Dynamic Management
      • Type of Course: Dynamic & Intuitive Leadership
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $4,800.00
      • Comments: Participants improve overall management and leadership effectiveness in times of change/crisis

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 154

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 41

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 45

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 17

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 15
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 26
      • Non-Tenured: 20

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 88

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 35 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 5 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 37 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 15 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 21 %
      • Other: 27 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 12 %
      • International: 39 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Classrooms and auditoriums are equipped with HD screens and recording systems to allow recorded audio, video and VGA material to be uploaded and distributed via streaming or download. Breeden Hall has 28 team rooms with computers and large flat-panel monitors. We have two rooms with Cisco TelePresence: a single-screen conference room for small groups and a 140-seat auditorium that allows guest speakers to present from Cisco-equipped systems anywhere in the world.

  • COMMENTS

      • We have turned the traditional model of Open Executive Education program design on its head. Our development process is based on intelligence about current and future business needs. Our partner, Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE), accrues this information in daily practice with firms and industries across the globe. We translate these needs into a set of capabilities and identify the most effective methods to teach new skills to your executives.

  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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