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A ‘ 45-year-old project’: Fuqua Military general talks policy tops BusinessWeek rankings in Latin America, Carribean ‘I hope that the number one ranking generates extra publicity,’ says Fuqua dean
General Fraser fielded questions on corruption, income inequality and poverty, among other issues
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The Fuqua School of Business jumped five spots to number one in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s most recent ranking of best MBA programs. The highest Fuqua ranked before this year in Bloomberg’s biennial MBA rankings was number five in 2000. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School trails Duke at number two, followed by University of Chicago’s Booth School, the MBA program that had previously occupied the number one spot. “The main place where Duke saw a lot of improvement was on our survey of employers,” said Francesca Levy, editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Business Schools vertical. Bloomberg asked employers—specifically those that hire a lot of MBA graduates—what qualities are most important to them in business school graduates, Levy said. Employers then rank business schools on well they did in those categories. These evaluations account for 45 percent of the overall rankings. “Duke jumped a lot on those measures because not only were employers really happy with the students Duke was producing, but they were the employers that hired a lot of MBAs and had a lot of weight in the survey,” Levy said. “Fuqua turns out to be a really good place to go if you want access to the kind of employers that are hiring a lot of MBAs and
Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Fuqua School of Business, pictured above, jumped five spots in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s ranking of the best MBA programs.
who tend to be really happy with students Duke is producing.” One of the areas Duke did really well on was collaboration, Levy said. “We want to bring people into our programs and put them out into the workforce who have the ability to collaborate in very diverse settings,” said William Boulding, dean and J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration at Fuqua. Fuqua student Javier Valenzuela wrote in an email Wednesday that the “team Fuqua spirit”—a mentality that all Fuqua students share, regardless of their diverse backgrounds—is the main reason for the school’s See Fuqua on Page 20
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involve corruption, inequality income, poverty and lack of proper infrastructures in these countries. “There is no silver bullet to solve this problem,” he said. “We haven’t solved criminality in the history of mankind. We need to put it in a place where local law enforcement can solve problems.” Fraser was the leader of the U.S. Southern Command between 2009 and 2013, a four-star general role, which gave him oversight over 1,200 personnel from all branches of the military as well as civilians from other agencies. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1975 and held several other positions in
Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, former commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command, spoke at the Sanford School of Public Policy Wednesday evening about foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The talk—co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the American Grand Strategy See General on Page 17 Program—was titled “Continuing Security Challenges in Central and South America and the Caribbean: Drugs, Immigration, Disaster Relief and More.” It functioned as an open discussion between the audience and Fraser who fielded questions on topics ranging from Guantanamo Bay to China. “The key security issue that crosses all of Latin America is what I call ‘transnational criminal networks,’” said Fraser. He stressed his opinion that the solution to these problems is political and that the U.S. can play a supporting role. “We have to be part of the solutions also,” he said, noting that the primary market for drugs and victims of human trafficking is the United States. Fraser emphasized that there is no conCatherine Farmer | The Chronicle ventional military threat from countries Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, pictured above, spoke in the western hemisphere. Issues causing about American foreign policy in Latin Amersecurity concerns, however, are those that ica and the Carribean at Sanford Wednesday.