General Information

In 1839 a group of citizens from Randolph and adjacent counties in North Carolina assembled in a log schoolhouse to organize support for a local academy founded a few months earlier by Brantley York. Prompted, they said, by "no small share of philanthropy and patriotism," they espoused their belief that "ignorance and error are the banes not only of religious but also civil society which rear up an almost impregnable wall between man and happiness."

Union Institute, which they then founded, was reorganized first in 1851 as Normal College to train teachers, and eight years later as Trinity College, a liberal arts college, which later moved to the growing city of Durham, North Carolina. With the establishment of the James B. Duke Indenture of Trust in 1924, Trinity College became Duke University.

Today, Duke is a two-campus institution with a student body of about 13,000, of whom about 6,700 are enrolled in the graduate and professional programs. Established in 1969, The Fuqua School of Business joined the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, Engineering, Divinity and the Nicholas School of the Environment in preparing qualified individuals for professional leadership and developing excellence in education for the professions.

The Campus. The main campus (West) of Duke University is a beautifully designed complex of buildings in Gothic architecture, bordered on the east by the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and on the west by the 8,000-acre Duke Forest. This campus is dominated by the Duke Chapel, whose 210-foot-high tower houses a 50-bell carillon. The William R. Perkins Library is one of the largest research libraries in the country. The facility for The Fuqua School of Business is located on West Campus near the intersection of Science Drive and Towerview Drive. The East Campus is a smaller complex of Georgian-style buildings and has, as major points of interest, Lilly Library and the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building. Durham is a part of the Research Triangle, an area formed by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University at Raleigh. The Research Triangle Park, a 5,400-acre campus for research laboratories, governmental agencies and research-oriented industries, is recognized as one of the world's leading science centers.

Durham, located near the center of the state, has easy access to the Great Smokies of the Appalachian Mountains and to the scenic and historic beaches of the Outer Banks. The area offers varied cultural and recreational activities ranging from concerts, opera, dance, theater, and recitals to intramural and collegiate sports, boating, skiing, camping, and other outdoor activities.

The Fuqua School of Business. Recognizing the importance of business education, Duke University's Board of Trustees established the Graduate School of Business in 1969, with the mandate to provide management education programs of the highest quality. The school began with two programs; an undergraduate major in management science, which no longer exists, and a fledgling MBA program that graduated its first class of twelve students in 1972. Since that time, the school has grown to include five major academic programs, a tenure-track faculty of ninety-seven, and more than 1,400 masters degree candidates enrolled in daytime and executive MBA programs. The school also offers a wide range of non-degree executive education programs and seminars.

J. B. Fuqua, Chairman, The Fuqua Companies, Atlanta, Georgia, supported the school generously in its development. In honor of Mr. Fuqua's contribution to the school and personal participation in its growth, the school was renamed The Fuqua School of Business in 1980 by proclamation of the Board of Trustees.

In January of 1983, The Fuqua School of Business moved into its present location on Science Drive on Duke University's West Campus. The Thomas F. Keller Center for MBA Education, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, offers one of the finest settings for management education in the United States. The 148,000-square-foot space provides for the instruction of MBA students in a variety of degree programs. The east wing of the Keller Center includes six amphitheater-style classrooms, the 458-seat Harold S. Geneen Auditorium, the Kirby Reading Room, and numerous seminar, breakout, and interview rooms.

In May 1989, Fuqua opened the 112,000-square-foot R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center. Named after the founder of Wendy's International, Inc., the center has 113 guest rooms, three classrooms, a 250-seat dining room and a 110-seat clubroom. The center was designed to be a comfortable and efficient facility to serve Fuqua's executive students. The Thomas Center is connected to the east wing of the Keller Center by a covered walkway.

The 61,000-square-foot Wesley Alexander Magat Academic Center opened in fall 1999. The center houses the majority of faculty offices as well as seminar and meeting rooms. In 2002, the 77,000-square-foot Lafe P. and Rita D. Fox Student Center opened. Included in the Fox Student Center are a student lounge, dining facilities, student lockers and showers, administrative offices, and a glass-enclosed atrium that serves as the "living room" of the school.

The latest addition to the Fuqua School of Business facilities is the Doug and Josie Breeden Hall, opening in August 2008. Breeden Hall is the new front door of the School for students and visitors. The building includes a three-story atrium at the Science Drive entry, three 70-seat lecture rooms, two small auditoriums (126- and 146-seat), a team room suite, two large meeting rooms, offices, and the newly expanded Ford library. The 91,000 square feet of space brings the Fuqua campus size to nearly 500,000 square feet.

The Library System. The libraries of the university consist of the Perkins Library system and four professional school libraries: The Ford Library at the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law Library, the Medical Center Library, and the Divinity Library. The Perkins Library system includes the main library of the university, the Perkins/Bostock Library, and five branches: Biological and Environmental Sciences Library, the Vesic Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, the Lilly Library, the Music Library, and the Marine Lab Library in Beaufort, NC. As of June 2007, Duke Libraries contained approximately 5,700,000 volumes and ranked among the twenty largest academic libraries in the United States. More than 32,000 serials, and 220 newspapers are received regularly. The collection includes more than 9,000,000 manuscripts, 130,000 maps, and 4,200,000 microforms.

The William R. Perkins Library. The Perkins/Bostock Library houses most of the books and journals in the humanities and social sciences, large files of United States federal and state documents, public documents of many European and Latin American countries, publications of European academies and learned societies, and special collections from South Asian, Far Eastern, and Slavic countries. The manuscript collection of approximately nine million items is particularly strong in all phases of life in the South Atlantic region. It also includes significant papers in English and American literature.

The rare books collection contains materials covering a broad range of fields, and the Latin and Greek manuscripts constitute one of the outstanding collections in the United States. The collection of Confederate imprints is the largest in the country.

Tours of the Perkins/Bostock Library are given frequently during orientation week and upon request throughout the year. Handbooks about library services and facilities are also available in each of the libraries.

The Ford Library. The Ford Library houses the principal business collections for the university, and includes 50,000 print books and journals and a comprehensive collection of e-books and e-journals. The Library's West Mezzanine houses an extensive collection of career materials for MBA students and provides easy access to career databases, such as the Vault Online Career Library and Wetfeet Insider Guides. The Library also offers an extensive media collection including audiobooks on a wide range of topics, as well as 1600 popular films on DVD, available to Fuqua students and their families. The Library also offers the latest technology in online business information and over fifty databases for business research.

The Ford Library's collection is tailored to the curriculum and research interests of faculty members and students. Important areas of the collection are accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, health sector management, global business management, managerial economics, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations management. Recent acquisitions include key business issues in the curriculum, such as leadership, ethics, and the social responsibility of business.

Faculty and students worldwide have access to hundreds of academic databases, including over fifty subscription databases from major information producers such as Bloomberg, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Euromonitor, Factiva, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, Hoovers, Jupiter Research, Lexis-Nexis, Mergent, Morningstar, OneSource, ProQuest, Reuters, Standard & Poors, and Thomson. These databases contain information on companies, industries, and other topics of interest to business students and faculty. Databases are available on every desktop in the library, on student laptops, as well as in computer labs throughout the building and can be accessed at any time, worldwide.

Librarians assist students conducting online research during reference hours and offer library information technology instruction throughout the year. The library's online catalog locates books in all Duke Libraries, as well as in the libraries at neighboring universities. In addition, the library provides online access to other computer systems that locate books and journals in other libraries, and obtains these materials on loan for Fuqua faculty and students.

Information about The Ford Library may be obtained from library staff or the library's web site at http://library.fuqua.duke.edu/index.html. In addition, brochures and bibliographies describing the library's collections and services are available at the circulation desk.

FuquaWorld, the School's intranet/portal, provides a customized access to information and tools for MBA students. The MBAA club web space provides each of Fuqua's student clubs with templates and e-resources for creating and maintaining dynamic web space for their events and activities, including event calendars, discussions groups, and collaboration tools.

Fuqua was one of the first institutions in the world to leverage telepresence (life-size, high-performance videoconferencing) and has deployed the global conference telepresence environment in support of its global strategy. High-performance videoconferencing and video capture is available throughout the teaching space. Fuqua's world-class teaching space is powered by state-of-the-art video display and capture, audio projection and capture, and IP videoconferencing technologies. Guest speakers are able to speak to students in any classroom from anywhere in the world. Multimedia production capabilities repurpose and redistribute classroom captures through live webcasts, streaming, and podcasts.

Fuqua is a pioneer in the use of internet tools and virtual learning environments to support our philosophy of team-based teaching and learning, using the right amount of "high-touch", not just high-tech. The School pioneered the computer-mediated learning environment in 1994 and the world's first distance-learning environments in support of our Global Executive MBA program in 1996. The Duke Learning Platform supports MBA students and faculty in Fuqua's Space and Place model of education. Students receive dedicated support from distance learning support specialists. The environment includes collaborative VoIP communication tools, presence, and high-touch synchronous conferencing. Students access the information and tools within Fuqua's learning environment from anywhere around the world to combine the best of the physical and virtual classroom. The environment includes virtual classroom and virtual team capabilities, access to simulations, integrated IM, chat, discussion, and online content.

Fuqua is continually involved in exploring new client computing paradigms and devices. Students are often involved in device trials and faculty and staff are outfitted with the latest client computing technology well before most corporate environments. Fuqua students, faculty, and staff have worked directly with companies to evaluate both first-generation tablet computers and second-generation tablet systems. These trials allow faculty, students, and IT staff to stay on the leading edge of capabilities and emerging technologies needed to support Fuqua's objectives for innovation in teaching and learning.

Fuqua's web space provides visitors, media, and prospective students with current information about Fuqua programs, events, faculty research, and emerging capabilities. The program subspace includes CRM-enabled information and access to Virtual Information Sessions. Fuqua news, upcoming career events, and information on leadership conferences and other Executive Education opportunities are projected into the top of this web space. Deeper in, visitors will find information on admissions, incoming student requirements, alumni events, and doorways to Fuqua's intranet.

FuquaNet, the school's high-performance network environment, delivers information across its backbone to faculty, staff, and student systems at a speed of ten billion bits per second. Fuqua's high-performance wireless network enhances the network infrastructure and allows students "anywhere access" to e-mail and web services outside of the classroom. Wireless access is deployed across all buildings, allowing students and visitors to access the Internet using mobile devices (laptops, tablets, handhelds). FuquaNet @ Home/Mobile, our Virtual Private Network (VPN) capability, provides all faculty, staff, and students with secure access to FuquaNet resources from home and while mobile.

Scheduling and mobility tools used at Fuqua extend personal and event calendars to mobile devices. Your personal calendar can be accessed anywhere in the world from Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Palm mobile devices using cellular wireless or WiFi. Scheduling groups are automatically created from FuquaWorld's Team Tools environment when you create your team. Using this feature, a meeting for your entire team can be proposed and created in seconds. In addition, phone/PDA devices can be used to access Duke e-mail and scheduling information.

Fuqua provides a wide range of computing technologies and services that provide research support for our world-renowned faculty as they conduct leading-edge research across various disciplines. PhD students enjoy the best outfitted PhD computing environment anywhere in the B-school world. All Fuqua PhD students are provided dual-processor high-performance workstations connected to dedicated servers, compute clusters and virtualized compute grids. The PhD software environment includes SAS, SAS/Grid, Stata, SPSS, Matlab, Systat, Gauss, Scientific Workplace, EndNote, Acrobat, Authorware, and Photoshop.

· Statistical analysis and programming, including programming for specialized projects related to research, experimental design, database interfaces, a full-range of quantitative analyses, and development of time-saving applications to automate and enhance research

· Hardware support; Fuqua's research server environment provides faculty access to custom research databases and high-performance processing and enterprise-level network storage environment for processing and archiving research data

Fuqua's MBA computing space includes team rooms outfitted with shared display environments for collaboration, an E-Resources Center for web and multimedia content editing, lab and study area workstations equipped with large flat panel displays, ExpressStations for fast-access to e-mail and information, and high-performance wireless access throughout the business school campus.

Information kiosks provide clubs with a network of LCD displays and content management for posting information and event status about club activities. Large FuquaChannel plasma displays throughout the facility provide reminders to students and visitors of upcoming events.

FuquaTalk provides prospective and incoming students with a high-touch chat environment moderated by students and staff. The Financial Markets Room contains Daktronics stock tickers, Bloomberg systems, and a multimedia presentation system for clubs and guest speakers.

2007-09 Bulletin of The Fuqua School of Business

2007-09 Bulletin of
The Fuqua School of Business