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Fuqua School of Business Dean, Blair Sheppard

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Below are some quick facts about Fuqua and linked here is a convenient downloadable Fuqua at-a-glance 1-pager. 

History

2010

February 5 New Center for Financial Excellence established

January 21 Broke ground in Kunshan, China to establish Duke/Fuqua campus

2009

December 7 Launched a Master of Management in Clinical Informatics degree

September 7 Launched Master of Management Studies: Foundations of Business

April 28 Launched our presence in UAE under the patronage of His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed, Ruler of Dubai

2008

October 13 Launched our presence in New Delhi, India

September 15 Launched our partnership with the Graduate School of Management in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of plans to become the worlds first globally distributed business school

2006 Corporate Sustainability Initiative (CSI) founded.
2004 The Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics (COLE) founded
2002 Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) founded.
2000

Duke Corporate Education and Cross Continent MBA program launched

1996

Global Executive MBA program launched

1990 J.B. Fuqua and Dean Tom Keller sign agreements in Russia for Soviet managers to be trained in business fundamentals at Fuqua
1989

R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center opens on campus

1984

Weekend Executive MBA program launched

1980

The school is named in honor of J.B. Fuqua with his $10 million gift to the School

1974

Board of Visitors formed

1969 Duke charters the Graduate School of Business Administration

Senior Leadership

Blair Sheppard
Dean, 2007 - present

Blair Sheppard is Dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Chair and Founder of Duke Corporate Education.

He has extensive experience working as a researcher, consultant, and teacher in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy, negotiation, organizational relationships, and organization design.  He has consulted to over a hundred companies and governments including ABB, BAE, the Canadian Government, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, LaFarge, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Norfolk Southern, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Toronto Dominion Bank, United States Postal Service, Verizon, and Wachovia.  His research has been on the same topics with over fifty books and articles. 

Blair earned a BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario and his PhD in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

William Boulding
Deputy Dean, 2007 - present

William Boulding is the J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration and Deputy Dean at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His previous roles at the Fuqua School include Senior Associate Dean for Programs, Associate Dean for the Daytime MBA program, Area Coordinator for the Marketing faculty, Co-Director of the Teradata Center for Customer Relationship Management, and the executive education Academic Program Director for both the Marketing Leadership Forum and the Advanced Management Program.

He received his BA in Economics from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He won the 1998 William F. O'Dell Award for the Journal of Marketing Research article making a "significant long-run contribution to the marketing discipline," and the 2006 Harold H. Maynard Award for the Journal of Marketing article making a "significant contribution to marketing theory and thought." Dr. Boulding has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Service Research. He is a past Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Research, and a past Area Editor for Marketing Science. He now serves on the Advisory Editorial Board for Marketing Science and the CMO Council Academic Liaison Board.

He is a past recipient of The Outstanding Teacher award from the Fuqua School, and has been cited for teaching excellence in various editions of the book Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools spanning a period of two decades. He is also a recipient of the Bank of America Faculty Award "for excellence in teaching, research, leadership and service."

Faculty

  • Ranked No.1 in the US by BusinessWeek (Intellectual Capital) in 2008
  • Ranked #2 (Research) in Financial Time's 2010 and 2009 Global MBA Ranking
  • Ranked #2 in the world for research contribution by UTD in their worldwide ranking
  • Full-Time International: 39%
  • Full-Time Female: 18%
  • Full-Time Tenured: 65%

Chaired Faculty

Dan Ariely
Robert H. Ashton
Ravi Bansal                                           
James R. Bettman                
Bill Boulding                                         
Michael Bradley                  
Douglas T. Breeden                            
Wesley M. Cohen                               
Jennifer Francis                   
A. Ronald Gallant                 
John Graham                                        
Campbell R. Harvey                            
David Hsieh                                          
Joel Huber                                            
Wagner Kamakura                              
Tracy R. Lewis                      
E. Allan Lind                                         
Mary Frances Luce                             
Carl Mela                                              
William Mitchell                  
Christine Moorman                            
John W. Payne                     
Manju Puri                                           
Katherine Schipper                            
James Smith                                                         
Richard Staelin                    
S. Viswanathan                     
Robert L. Winkler                               
Paul H. Zipkin        

Alumni

Total number of living MBA alumni as of June 30, 2009: 13,419

Accreditation

AACSB International (Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business)
SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools)

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