OFF COURT
BLUE DEVILS ON CAMPUS
Feature by Duke Basketball Student Life & Campus Relations Director Kenny King
MASTERING THE
Jordan Davidson Pursues Business
FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS
Interests in Fuqua’s New MMS Program
Hello Duke fans! This month I wanted to highlight the Fuqua School of Business’ new “MMS: Foundations of Business”
program and one of the first students to ever enroll in it... our own Jordan Davidson. Over the course of nine months, Jordan
and his classmates will learn the fundamentals of finance, accounting, marketing, strategy, operations, decision analysis, and
management, expanding their career options with a broad skill set. The MMS program is taught by Fuqua’s No. 1-ranked fac-
ulty (according to BusinessWeek) and students have access to Fuqua’s world-class Career Management Center. To give you a
better idea about the program and Jordan’s experiences so far, our fifth-year guard answered a few questions...
What have been the biggest differences between your You’ve taken six courses now. Which has been the
undergrad work and your experiences in the MMS toughest and which have you enjoyed the most?
program? The toughest one has been finance. It’s one of the
It’s been the time that is necessary to dedicate to out- three I am in this term. Being a psychology major, I
of-class work. My professors expect you to be really never focused much on quantitative studies and finance
prepared for every class. Not that they didn’t have that is almost solely quantitative. It has been the biggest
expectation in undergrad, but it is paramount in this challenge but it has been great learning about managing
program because of “cold calling.” You have a name tag portfolios and things like that. My favorite class is
in class and you don’t raise your hand to participate. They also one I am in this term called “Business Strategy.”
just call on you randomly. Will Mitchell teaches it and we look at different case
studies involving domestic, European, and some Asian
How have you adjusted to the MMS curriculum? businesses. We look at their strategies for expansion and
Fuqua has the No. 1 faculty of any business school in the breaking into new markets so it’s been interesting.
country so that’s great. Since we have so many students
who have majors like mine (psychology) that don’t Students in the MMS program come from a variety of
necessarily involve a business background, they baby-step backgrounds and majors. How has that impacted your
you through the curriculum first and then they take you to studies so far at Fuqua?
a Master’s level. In other words, they start out explaining They do come from all kinds of different backgrounds and
the fundamentals and then they take you pretty deep into schools. I think we have about 60 Duke graduates and 40
the intricacies of finance, marketing, strategy and different from Ivy League schools and various other colleges. They
aspects of business. come from Econ backgrounds to psychology backgrounds
like myself, to anthropology backgrounds, and more.
WHO SHOULD APPLY? MMS: Foundations of Business is for individuals without previous business
training and experience who may have recently earned an undergraduate or graduate degree in areas
including liberal arts, science, or engineering.
MMS ACADEMIC FORMAT (Master of Management Studies: Foundations of Business)
Fall Term 1 Fall Term 2 Spring Term 3 Spring Term 4
Intro to Financial Accounting Intro to Marketing Analysis Foundations of Corporate Fundamentals of
Finance Financial Analysis
Fundamentals of Business Principles of Strategy
Economics Fundamentals of Market Intro to Operations and
Foundations of Capital Intelligence Supply Chain Management
Foundations of Management Markets
& Organizations Principles of Cost and Spreadsheet Modeling and
Managerial Accounting Decision Analysis
Career Development Resources
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