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Duke University, Dubai

Back ground 1881: The first university business school is founded. 1969: The Fuqua School of Business is founded at Duke University. 1995: Fuqua launches The Duke MBA - Global Executive program, an innovation in graduate management education targeted at senior managers. The program is recognized as the first truly global executive MBA and introduces a groundbreaking delivery model of traditional teaching interaction with Internet-enabled learning. Business schools are regionally predicated. They view problems through the economic, cultural, and regulatory lens of their place of origin. Even schools with operations in other countries are effectively projecting their home lens onto the regions in which they operate. A great business school operating in a region outside its place of origin is simply bringing its home lens to a new region. They may be present in a new geography, but they are not cultural or intellectual citizens of the new region. Mission “Fuqua is dedicated to advancing the understanding of management through research, putting research knowledge at the service of business and society, and providing the highest quality education for business and not-for-profit leaders worldwide…with the result of producing leaders of consequence.” Duke is reshaping the business school to make it relevant for the 21st century. With a potential investment of half a billion dollars by our partners, we are developing collaborative relationships with individuals, municipalities, and other institutions to create the business school that the world needs now. o We will be based in the countries that are the economic and cultural hubs of their parts of the world. They either write the economic rules and/or set the cultural tone for their regions: Shanghai, China New Delhi, India Dubai, United Arab Emirates St. Petersburg, Russia London, United Kingdom Johannesburg, South Africa *Future plans: * 1. Dubai focused on building a knowledge economy, innovation, and has a tradition of entrepreneurship and speed of implementation Dubai has something to teach the world. With the DIFC, Dubai will become the location for our multi-sited global programs. We hope to attract a number of students from the GCC to participate in these programs, but we will also be showcasing Dubai to students from the rest of the world. 2. With DIHRD (Dubai Institute for Human Resource Development) and the MBRPLD, Duke plans to offer degree and non-degree programs for Dubai and the Emirates: first a program for government employees that is joint between Fuqua and Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy, second a Masters of Management Studies to prepare students with a pre-experience masters program in the fundamentals of business. 3. We will engage in research activity on key issues, partnering with the DIFC’s Center for Excellence, to focus on fundamental issues including healthcare, sustainability, governance and financial management as well as Finance and entrepreneurship. We seek to partner with local academic institutions, governmental institutions and local corporate.

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