Duke Business

TopTier
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:15:34 +0000

@bluedog‌: Absolutely right! The list of Duke undergraduate alumni who have excelled in the top commercial/financial enterprises is long and distinguished (typing this on an iPhone at breakfast, so please forgive the spelling and the incompleteness): Rubenstein, Mack, Wilson, Bostock, Pratt, Adams, Nicholas, Schwartz, Waggoner are just stellar examples. The point is, from a school like Duke, enterprises hire the PERSON (immediate and future performance and leadership); skills are important, but can be quickly mastered. Fuqua adds additional facets to Duke’s aggregate capabilities (witness, Tim Cook Apple’s CEO).