The economic optimism index fell from 66.0 in the fourth quarter of 2024 to 62.1 in the first quarter of 2025, almost erasing ...

The best way to learn about Fuqua is to connect with our community. We are thrilled that we are able to offer in-person and virtual campus visits this year, and although we are still in the process of ...

Executive presence—the ability to embody confidence, clarity, and authority—is critical in earning respect and cultivating ...

Additionally, leaders in 2025 must be skilled at managing conflicts constructively. Disagreements, whether internal or ...

When you understand your own leadership style you help your team—and the entire organization—become more effective. Designed for professionals at all levels, the Duke Executive Leadership Program ...

Aaron C. Kay (PhD 2005, Stanford University) is the J Rex Fuqua Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. His research focuses on the relation between ...

Daniel P. Gross is an associate professor in the Strategy area at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prior to joining ...

Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, PhD is the James L. Vincent Professor of Leadership at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is one of the foremost leading scholars on research that resides at ...

S. ``Vish'' Viswanathan is the F.M. Kirby Professor of Investment Banking at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Professor Viswanathan received his Bachelor's Degree in Science (First Class ...

Gavan J. Fitzsimons is the Edward S. & Rose K. Donnell Professor of Marketing and Psychology at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His research focuses on understanding the ways in which ...

Here leadership isn’t just a concept—it’s alive. At Fuqua, you'll run organizations and manage activities that draw from the diversity of people and experience across our network. All this raw ...