Grad and Professional PLUS Loans

This article from USA TODAY is timely. I am already the proud owner (well, not really) of one of these loans. I’m glad they made this available, though, and it’s at least good to see that I won’t be *that* far off from the average cumulative MBA debt ($35,525) once I get mine! USATODAY.com : […]

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WEMBA Term 2 : Weekend 3

Friday: The day started off with a short Economics quiz on Supply and Demand, followed by a discussion of the American Airlines case in marketing. Our team had quite the crisis related to our AA case submission. We realized around 11 PM (one hour before it had to be submitted online) that our write up […]

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WEMBA Term 2 : Weekend 2

Friday: Classes on Friday began with Economics, followed by Decision Models and Marketing. I was project lead for our team on an interesting focus group assignment for Marketing that studied customer needs relating to new product concepts. After class on Friday, I attended an awesome career session on networking strategies followed by a review session […]

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WEMBA Term 2 : Weekend 1

This weekend not only marked the beginning of Term 2, but also was spouse/partner weekend! Spouses and partners are invited to join the residency experience and participate in various activities with each other. Instead of being housed at the R. David Thomas Center (good accommodations), we were among the “lucky” couples to be rotated off-site […]

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The Duke MBA – WEMBA Class of 2007!

As I begin this exciting chapter of my life, I intend to blog about my experience and progress in the program. Today was my first day of school…”school” being the Duke Weekend Executive MBA Class of 2007. I even got my picture taken! After packing the night before (I brought *WAY* too much stuff, of […]

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Accepted to Duke!

Happy Holidays! I know that many (most) of you have been waiting to hear about my Duke admissions decision. Well, I am happy to report that the answer is *YES*! I got the call late this afternoon and my formal acceptance letter will follow shortly! It seems like the process has taken an eternity, starting […]

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