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Futures of Finance: Debt and Violence
11:30 am – 1:00 pmDebt and Violence
Chair: Valeria Graziano, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)
Peter Fleming, QMUL
Stefano Harney, QMUL
Published 1 year ago
A History of the Modern Financial Model
9:45 am – 11:15 amA History of the Modern Financial Model
Chair: Charlie Piot, Duke
Mary Poovey, NYU
Kevin Brine, NYU
Published 1 year ago
Futures of Finance: Welcome
9:30 amWelcome - Ian Baucom, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke
Published 1 year ago
Fuqua's Thought Leaders
Fuqua's faculty are academic thought leaders and excellent teachers who are at the forefront of every academic discipline in business. Every day, students benefit from learning from these professors.Published 1 year ago
Principles of Learning
The three pillars of learning at Fuqua include: decision making, innovation, and making a difference. This is how we believe business schools can really make an impact.Published 1 year ago
Disciplined Thinking
Students must become "disciplined thinkers" in order to successfully confront the challenges that they will face in their future careers and in business in general.Published 1 year ago
Fuqua:Thought Leadership
We are in the business of changing perspectives, says Fuqua's Mary Frances Luce, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and T. Austin Finch, Jr. Professor of Marketing. Our faculty, who are at the forefront of every business discipline, aim to make students better thinkers and leaders.Published 1 year ago
DukeGEN: Live from Silicon Valley - Howie Liu
Howie Liu (Duke '09, Co-founder of eTacts, sold to Salesforce.com) speaks from Silicon Valley. 4th Annual DukeGEN Speaker Series.Published 1 year ago
Leaders of Consequence
It's time to set aside old mental models about what it means to be a business student. Our students are bankers, marketers, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, physicians, environmentalists, and soldiers. They are smart and real leaders of consequence looking to make their mark and effect positive change in the world.Published 1 year ago
Fuqua Health Sector Management
The Duke MBA Health Sector Management (HSM) program—the largest health industry concentration among top U.S. business schools—offers interdisciplinary studies that leverage Duke University's longstanding leadership in business education, research, and clinical care. Students work closely with faculty and industry leaders to explore health care's most pressing issues, among them service delivery models, financing alternatives, patient and provider relationships, and organizational processes. With their understanding of the industry, applicable skill sets, and professional network, HSM graduates become leaders of consequence within the global health sector.Published 1 year ago
Fuqua's MMS Program: A New Model
Recent students and former Dean Blair Sheppard share their thoughts on the Fuqua MMS Program http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/programs/other_programs/mms_foundations_of_business/why-mms/.Published 1 year ago
DukeGEN: Live from Silicon Valley - Jason Freedman
Jason Freedman '02 was an entrepreneur while he was an undergraduate at Duke (Public Policy), founding a loft-building company to help pay for his living expenses. Even still, it took him several years of jobs, an MBA, and a failed startup, before he founded FlightCaster in 2009 and ultimately found success going through the infamous Y Combinator program. After doing well building his startup, he sold it to NextJump.Published 1 year ago
Left of Black: Sandy Darity, Duchess Harris
On the September 19th broadcast of 'Left of Black' host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted economist William "Sandy" Darity, the Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics at Duke University. Darity discusses the Obama Administration's methods of tackling the economic crisis and reveals his own approach to combating unemployment. The professor then delves into his projects that educate youth by providing "gifted-quality education" and teaching research skills. Darity, who is Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke, also highlights the importance of African and African American studies to all Americans. The episode will also feature Duchess Harris, associate professor of American studies at Macalester College in Minnesota and author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama. In her book, Harris tours the movements of black feminist women under different presidencies and tells the story of the formation of the National Black Feminists Organization and Combahee River Collective, while highlighting how the face of feminism changes. Harris also discusses the current controversy surrounding the film The Help.
Published 1 year ago
Leading in a Post-Carbon Economy
Jigar Shah - CEO, Carbon War RoomFebruary 24, 2011
Published 1 year ago
The Duke Idea: Shanghai
A "Duke Idea" conversation in Shanghai between President Richard H. Brodhead and Xiqing Gao L'86, president of the China Investment Corporation and a member of the Duke University Board of Trustees. Learn more at http://www.thedukeidea.com.Published 1 year ago