Highlights:
The Lafe P.
and Rita D. Fox Student Center was dedicated.
Fuqua ranked among the top 10 business schools in all programs
as rated by U.S. News & World Report,
Business Week and
Financial
Times, including a No. 2 worldwide ranking of executive education
by Financial Times.
The Daytime MBA program increased
its student body by almost
20 percent.
Fuqua launched the Center for Advancement of Social
Entrepreneurship (CASE), a research and education center
dedicated to promoting entrepreneurial leadership in the social
sector.
The inaugural Coach K & Fuqua School of Business Conference
on Leadership was launched.
Global Capital Markets Center hosted its first
Directors’
Education Institute.
Fuqua and Seoul National University’s College of Business
Administration announced a multifaceted
alliance.
Fuqua became a platinum-level
partner of the Special
Olympics of North Carolina and exceeded $1 million in
contributions raised through MBA Games over the past 14 years.
Awards and recognition:
Professors Helmy Baligh, John Forsyth, John McCann and Marian Moore retired.
Alexander McMahon, executive-in-residence, received the Duke University Medal.
A. Ronald Gallant was named the Hanes Corporation Foundation Professor of
Business Administration and Tracy R. Lewis received the Martin L. Black Jr.
Professor of Business Administration distinction.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Sixteen new faculty members joined the ranks for the second consecutive record-hiring year.
Richard Staelin was appointed as deputy dean.
John F. Cady came on board as associate dean of executive education.
Robert Garda became the director of the International Center.
Jean Eisel was named director of the Career Management Center.
School statistics:
The student body consisted of 696 Daytime, 861 Executive
MBA and 65 Ph. D. students and 207 Executive Education
open enrollment participants.
Major gifts:
Donor receipts totaled $8,968,317 for Fuqua’s second
highest fundraising year during the Campaign, including
$2 million from an anonymous donor, $980,000 from the
Lafe P. Fox Family Foundation and $882,500 from NCR.
