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Published: February 27, 2017
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I visited campus and interviewed with a second-year student. She made me feel right at ease, and was quite skilled at asking the classic interview questions in a way that didn’t make it feel like I was being interrogated. It felt more like a conversation among friends. Walk me through your résumé… Why an MBA? Why Fuqua? What are your short & long term career goals? How do you like to spend your time outside of work? Most significant professional accomplishment? Most
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Published: February 21, 2017
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! Casual format. Interviewer described her background. Then started with questions: Walk me through your résumé Why an MBA? Describe a time you received constructive feedback. What did you do? What would your manager says makes you, unique? If you had a teammate at Fuqua who wasn’t pulling his/her weight, what would you do? What three things make a team function well? Why Fuqua? What makes it special from other schools for you? What clubs will you be part of? Then I had
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Published: February 19, 2017
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I was invited to Duke in February and just had my interview in San Francisco, CA this Saturday. This website has been so helpful to me that I wanted to provide some insight into my experience with Duke to help others with their process. I visited Duke in December, so I decided interviewing on campus wasn’t necessary. It was a BIG deal that I went to campus because most people had not. If you’re applying in round 3, or haven’t had your
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Published: January 10, 2017
Fuqua Professor Campbell Harvey on the “January Barometer” Myth
More than 40 years since its incarnation, the so-called “January Barometer”—a theory that the direction stocks take in January predicts how their entire year will play out—is still going strong in some camps. But it’s not without its vocal detractors. In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “Sorry, the ‘January Barometer’ Is a Market Myth,” Fuqua School of Business Finance Professor Cambell Harvey weighs in—in opposition. Citing the Stock Trader’s Almanac, the Journal article credits the January Barometer, also sometimes called the January Indicator, as being devised by market guru Yale Hirsch in 1972. And its proponents, including Hirsch’s son,
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Published: December 21, 2016
Parsing Round 1 MBA LiveWire Data Reveals Some Interesting Results
The last couple of weeks have been very busy indeed as the majority of schools we cover on Clear Admit released final decisions to their Round 1 applicants. MBA LiveWire saw record activity as the community chimed in to share their individual results with each other. We thought it would be interesting to do some data analysis on these results and are excited to share our findings. We should stress, though, that the data is very likely subject to response bias, by which we mean that candidates with positive results may be more inclined to share them, resulting
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Published: December 15, 2016
Fridays from the Frontline: Five Tips to Make the Most of Your Campus Visit
Perhaps you’re in the extraordinarily fortunate position of needing to choose between multiple schools that have offered you admission in Round 1. Or maybe you are furiously working on your Round 2 applications. Wherever you are in your process, campus visits can play a vital role in choosing where you ultimately decide to enroll. Today’s Friday from the Frontline post—from Natalia Suarez, a second-year MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business—provides valuable tips for how to make the most of your campus visit. Suarez, who was born in Colombia but raised in New Jersey and Georgia,
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Published: December 6, 2016
Forté Foundation Launches New Men as Allies Initiative
Reaching gender equity on business school campuses is far from just a women’s issue, which is precisely why the Forté Foundation is calling on men to get involved. Drawing on successful programs already underway on campuses spanning from Harvard Business School (HBS) to Stanford Graduate School of Business, Forté today announced its new Men as Allies Initiative. It is designed to invite and encourage male students to get involved in a growing movement toward gender equity in business school classrooms and the broader business world.
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Published: December 1, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview was with a second year student in a private room on-campus. Very conversational and very relaxed. The answers you provide guide the interview for the most part. Standard format; they start with their background, you provide your background, jump into questions, and then ask them questions. While my interview had a copy of my resume, it didn’t seem as if they read it beforehand. Here are a few of the questions in no particular order: Why Fuqua? Why
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Published: November 24, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview took place in a cafe in Mumbai. The alumnus was a local who had started an educational business in India. He was pretty friendly and asked the standard questions. 1. Tell me about yourself 2. Why MBA? Why in the US? 3. Why Fuqua? 4. 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses with examples 5. Tell me about when there was a conflict in your team. 6. Tell me about a leadership challenge 7. Tell
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Published: November 15, 2016
Amid Roller Coaster Rides for Some, HBS Stays Put atop Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking
For the second consecutive year, Harvard Business School (HBS) tops the Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual ranking of MBA programs—released today—making it one of the few leading schools that didn’t experience shifts in a list that holds lots of changes this year over last.
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) shot up to second, from its seventh spot last year, and Duke’s Fuqua School followed right on its heels, moving from eighth last year to number three. Together, they knocked the University of Chicago Booth School of Business down from second to fourth.
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Published: October 24, 2016
Impending MBA Interview? Latest Clear Admit Interview Guides Have All You Need to Prepare
The MBA interview—the nail-biting, stomach-churning, sleep-robbing, suit-demanding component of the MBA application process that ties some applicants up in knots—is upon us. But there’s no reason to fret: not with Clear Admit’s in-depth Interview Guide Series as part of your arsenal. Providing expert advice and insider tips on what to expect and how to prepare, these guides are ready and waiting to help you conquer your jitters and ace your interview.
Maybe you’re among the lucky ones who has already received an interview invite from your top choice business school (Harvard Business School and U. Chicago Booth to name a couple)? We’ve also heard—via the MBA LiveWire—that invites are rolling out from places like Columbia Business School (CBS), Cambridge’s Judge School, Duke’s Fuqua School and INSEAD. Of course, with more candidates set to receive Round 1 decisions in the coming weeks, the interview invitation madness has just begun.
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Published: October 8, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions: Round 1 / Second-year student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview took place mid-September during the Open Interview period for Round 1 in the Fuqua School of Business. Sat in small meeting room for a very conversational, laid-back interview. It was a blind-application interview with a 2nd year student who had only seen my résumé. Interview questions were as follows: 1. Walk me through your résumé. 2. What three words would your boss use to describe you. 3. Describe a time when you had to convince or persuade others of your perspective.
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Published: October 5, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The total feelings about the school and Durham are fine. I especially like the class visit, super interesting! When we were waiting for the interview, the lunch and class visits, there were some current students staying there and chatting with us. Very thoughtful. The interview lasted around 40mins. Questions were: 1. Tell me about your self. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Fuqua? 4. Some follow up questions in my work. 5. What are the qualifications of a
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Published: October 5, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I scheduled an on-campus interview during school visit. My interviewer is a second-year student. She was very friendly and out-going and soon found common ground with me since she did an exchange year in my home country. The interview was conversational and the questions were behavioral. The interviewer was also able to ask specific questions regarding my background. Tell me about yourself. Tell me about how your transition from country X to country Y. What was it like? Give me an example of
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Published: October 2, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Early Action / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Early Action Round applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very conversational, much like everyone has said about it. I liked that it was with a 2nd second year student because the questions came more naturally and it was nice to get a student’s perspective at the end when asking questions. The interviewer greeted me in the lobby and took me up to the interview room. After some small talk, we dove into the interview. The student had a sheet of paper she was using as her guide.
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Published: September 26, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I decided to interview during the open interview period and I’m glad I did. Knowing that I don’t have to wait for an invitation definitely alleviated all of the stress. I showed up on campus at 9am and sat in the admissions waiting area with a bunch of other prospective students and a few first year student ambassadors. I was pleasantly surprised to see how friendly everyone was – it definitely made me feel very comfortable going into the interview later in
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Published: September 15, 2016
Chicago’s McGowan Charitable Fund Announces 7th Class of Fellows
Since 2010, the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund has been naming 10 outstanding second-year MBA students as members of its annual class of McGowan Fellows. The fund was created and named in honor of William G. McGowan, an American business leader and founder of MCI Communications, following his passing in 1992.
The selected fellows join a prestigious group of alumni from some of the best business schools around the United States. One fellow is chosen annually from each of 10 partner business schools. Each receives full tuition for the second year of his or her MBA studies.
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Published: September 12, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was with a second-year student and it was blind. She described herself as an “advocate” for me on the interview committee. The interview was very conversational. It covered the normal interview questions: Walk me through your résumé. Why an MBA? And what do you want to do after your MBA? Why Duke specifically? What types of things do you do outside of work? What do you imagine getting involved with while at Duke? How would your roommate describe you? What
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Why McKinsey and Company Loves to Hire MBAs
When it comes to careers MBAs are likely to land, working for a management consulting firm like tops the list. McKinsey and Company is one such firm that conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis for companies around the world in order to evaluate management decisions across the public and private sectors. McKinsey is considered one of the most prestigious management consultancy firms globally and the firm’s clientele includes 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations, along with an extensive list of governments and non-profit organisations. More current and former Fortune 500 CEOs are actually alumni of McKinsey than of any
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Clear Admit Launches New Strategic Partnership with MBA Mama
Clear Admit’s own roots stretch back to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—where co-founders Graham Richmond and Eliot Ingram both received their MBAs and Richmond went on to work in the Wharton Admissions Office. Continuing to hone their expertise in the MBA admissions process at top-tier schools, the two Wharton MBAs would soon launch Clear Admit, the leading independent resource for top-tier MBA candidates.
MBA Mama Co-Founder and CEO Divinity Matovu (Wharton MBA 2017)
Meanwhile, another Wharton MBA student has been hard at work on her own business concept. Wharton rising second-year MBA student Divinity Matovu is co-founder and CEO of MBA Mama, an online platform providing ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA and strategically navigate family/career planning. Together with co-founder Nicole Pontón, an MBA student at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, the two have been making the MBA Mama name known far and wide. The things the duo had been working on caught our eye, and we reached out to Matovu last fall to ask if she would share some of her experiences as an MBA mom in our Fridays from the Frontline column. She graciously agreed.
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MBA DecisionWire Data Analysis Examines Yields for HBS, Chicago Booth and Fuqua
Welcome back for the fifth in our series of posts offering analysis of the data we are receiving on MBA DecisionWire. MBA DecisionWire is a resource that allows candidates to share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received.
If you have made your final decision in terms of where you will attend, please share on MBA DecisionWire. You can also use the filter options to see how other candidates have made their choices.
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Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 3 / Skype / Adcom
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I submitted my application on the day of my deadline, May 4th, for the class of 2017. I’m not sure if that was the reason I was interviewed by the Admission Officer director, but I’m glad I did. The interview was very conversational and relaxed, but it was clear that he had a set of questions to ask me. Also, I was interviewed by video skype and it was very conforting seeing his face during the conversation. Here you
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Published: March 30, 2016
MBA DecisionWire Reveals Candidates’ Gravitation Toward Certain Pairings of Schools
MBA DecisionWire, where candidates share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received, has drawn hundreds of entries already in its inaugural season. This level of activity has prompted us to introduce a new bi-monthly column where we will share observations gleaned from the MBA DecisionWire data. Read on for our first set of insights, and stay tuned going forward for more of the same! Popular School Pairings Today we wanted to look at a few popular school pairings—that is, schools where candidates who apply to one program often also apply to the
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The Growth of International Indian MBA Students
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
Increase in Indian MBA Students
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that top MBA programs are being flooded with applications from Indian candidates. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council, the number of Indians taking the GMAT increased by nearly 20 percent from 2010 to 2012, and more than half of those GMAT scores were sent to American business schools. In fact, from 2012 to 2013 a total of 25,268 Indians took the GMAT, third in the world behind the United States (90,541) and China (53,005).
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Published: February 27, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / Skype
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! My interview was with a 2nd year student on 13th Nov’15 at 9am EST on Skype. It was a blind interview and he mentioned that he had only my résumé and nothing else. He started by asking me the local time at my place (which was 7:30pm) and then he noticed that I was in the office. So he said that he would try to make it quick so that I can go home! He started informally with “How
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