Duke MBA Global Consulting Practicum (GCP)
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February 2011 - Duke GCP wins Ashoka U Innovation Award
May 2010 – Duke MBA Students Consult with Social Entrepreneurs Across the Globe
FuquaNet Alumni Newsletter, May 26, 2010
April 2010 – US News and World Report highlights the GCP in “Business School: Teaching More Than Work Ethic”. Full Article
“Perhaps more significant than changes in the attitudes of administration and faculty are changes in the attitudes of students. Just as the recession has made many people consider alternatives to traditional finance careers, there have been shifts in student interests at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. "You're seeing students with an investment banking background or tech background who want to hone their business skills but in a way that has social impacts," says Matthew Nash, managing director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Fuqua. One program, the Global Consulting Practicum, matches students interested in consulting with organizations around the world in need of help. One such trip sent Fuqua students to the Hope Factory in Johannesburg, a nonprofit that works with unemployed South Africans.”
Winter 2010 -- Morgan Stanley Smith Barney “Perspectives in Philanthropy” mentions the GCP’s work with Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua. Full article
“As profits improved, he wondered if the time was right to start selling franchises. Agora connected him with a volunteer consulting team of MBA students from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Through a structured consulting engagement, they performed an in-depth analysis and recommended against it — helping to keep him focused and improving internal processes.”
November 2009 -- The Duke MBA GCP highlighted in “MBAs Turn to Social Enterprise”, Financial Times. For extended coverage and full article, visit FT website (free registration required to view full article)
“The practical challenges of running social businesses in the developing world cannot be learned solely in the classroom. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is among a growing number of schools creating opportunities to send students overseas. As part of Fuqua’s Global Consulting Practicum, students visit developing countries to work with social entrepreneurs.
October 2009 – One of the GCP’s 2008-2009 clients in South Africa, the Hope Factory, released a press release about their experience, “Accountants’ enterprise development initiative poised for greater financial sustainability”. View the full article
May 2009 – Fuqua Professor Pranab Majumder writes about his experience leading the first India GCP.
April 2009 -- Watch a video of Sophie Messer, Fuqua ’10, talking about her GCP experience:
[link to http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news_events/feature_stories/connecting_women_india/]
September 2008 – Liliana Valle, Fuqua ’09, blogs about her summer internship with Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua. Liliana was able to get her internship through her GCP experience in Nicaragua working with Oscarito’s, which employs low income women in the design and manufacture of children's clothing while implementing environmentally sustainable practices.