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Quick Facts 

Founded

Incorporated 1 July 2000 as a carve-out of the custom executive education practice of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Key Affiliations

USA:   Duke University
UK:     London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
India:  Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)

Governance

We are a not-for-profit corporation held by Duke University.  Our board is comprised of our CEO, Kim Taylor-Thompson; Advisor to the CEO Judy Rosenblum; former CEO Blair Sheppard; Peter Lange, the provost of Duke University; and Tallman Trask, Duke University’s executive vice president.

Employees

Currently 140 spread among our offices in the USA (Durham, NC; New York, NY; Carlsbad, CA); Johannesburg, South Africa; London, England; and Ahmedabad, India.

Faculty

Our Global Learning Resource Network (GLRN) draws on a pool of over 3,000 educators from 25 different countries.  More than 800 educators have taught in our programs to date. 

Sample Clients

Anglo American
ArcelorMittal
BAE Systems
Barclays
Boeing
Booz Allen
Ericsson

Genpact
Honeywell
HSBC
IBM
Merck
Microsoft
PGS

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rio Tinto
Shell
Standard Bank
Suncor
Verizon

Revenues

We are a growing company, +23% compared to last year, with revenues in excess of US$69 Million for our fiscal year ending June 2008.

Program Delivery

We have delivered custom programs at numerous sites in 58 different countries across six continents.  They may be small or very large in scale, in many iterations, in several languages, covering a few to thousands of participants, with complex logistical requirements.  Our educator network and our affiliations with universities provide our clients with both a local deliverable and global consistency. 

Mission & Focus

We empower our clients to implement their strategy through development of their people.  Put another way, we develop individuals within the context of building the organization’s capabilities, focusing education on what a company’s people need to know, do, and believe in order to address real-world challenges and attain specific business objectives.

Public Recognition

Duke Corporate Education was ranked #1 by the Financial Times (12 May 2008) in custom executive education for the sixth year in a row; and #1 by BusinessWeek (12 Nov 2007) in their biennial survey for the third time in a row.

Logos

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