The Duke MBA Consulting Club is comprised of first and second year MBA students who show interest in

breaking into management consulting. It aims to educate the members about the best practices in the industry

through sessions, networking and various preparatory activities.

Consulting Symposium

Each year, the club hosts a symposium where industry experts from firms, like Bain, BCG and Deloitte,

introduce their company and management consulting as a career. There are also keynote speeches and panel

discussions. Aside from the information shared in this event, participants dressed in business formal, also get to

meet other club members and network with consultants.

Career Preparation

The club organizes various workshops and sessions to help students find out if management consulting is the

right career for them. Guidelines and tips on how to go through the recruiting and interview process are

provided. Mock interviews are also conducted to prepare students in actual interview rounds. There are also

firm visits in Chicago and Atlanta to expose them with the differences among firms, lifestyle of management

consultants and the elements of a consulting culture.

Visit Duke MBA Consulting Club’s

For more details about the club’s objectives and updates, please visit their campus group page. If you’re in

need of a reference on how to break into this industry, download our management consulting career guide. Its

tips and guidelines will be of much help as you prove recruiters you are the best person for the position. Also

included in the guide is a script to give you a glimpse of how a case interview goes.

The concentration in Strategy is designed for students looking for careers with leading strategy consulting firms and for

students who are interested in strategic planning or general management positions requiring similar skills in established

firms. Building on the broad foundation of the core curriculum, the concentration requires 6 additional electives that

provide a deeper understanding of strategy and competitive environments. In addition, strategic consultants and

strategic planners rely on a broad range of analytical skills and increasingly on 1 or more areas of specialized

knowledge. The course requirements are built around these themes.

Coursework Requirements:

Advanced strategy courses (choose at least 2 of the following courses):

MGRECON 788 — Competitive Analysis

MGRECON 784 — Game Theory for Strategic Advantage

STRATEGY 837 — International Strategy

STRATEGY 838 — Entrepreneurial Strategy

STRATEGY 839 — Strategic Alliances 

STRATEGY 840 — Emerging Markets Strategy

STRATEGY 841 — Strategy Implementation

STRATEGY 843 — Intellectual Capital and Competitive Strategy

Advanced analytic skills (choose at least 2 of the following courses):

ACCOUNTG 591 — Managerial Accounting

ACCOUNTG 597 — Financial Statement Analysis

FINANCE 646 — Corporate Finance

DECISION 611 — Decision Models

DECISION 613 — Strategic Modeling and Business Dynamics

DECISION 614 — Forecasting

Additional strategy-oriented courses (choose at least 2 courses from the following list or additional courses

from the advanced strategy courses list above):

ACCOUNTG 598 — Valuation & Fundamental Analysis

ACCOUNTG 898 — Management Control and Financial Reporting

ENRGYENV 626 — Modeling and Analysis for Environmental Sustainability (Formerly DECISION 491 — Decision

Tools for Environmental Sustainability)

FINANCE 651 — Entrepreneurial Finance

FINANCE 654 — Advanced Corporate Finance

FINANCE 658 — Corporate Restructuring

FINANCE 661 — Raising Capital: Financial Instruments, Institutions and Strategy

HLTHMGMT 711 — Health Care Markets (Formerly Economics and Strategy of Health Sector Management)

HLTHMGMT 712 — Medical Device Strategy (Formerly Medical Device Commercialization)

HLTHMGMT 713 — Biotechnology: Management of Drug Discovery

HLTHMGMT 714 — Health Care Provider Strategy

HLTHMGMT 715 — Health Care Marketing

HLTHMGMT 716 — Health Care Systems and Policy

HLTHMGMT 717 — Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Strategy (Formerly Economics and Management of the

Pharmaceutical Industry)

MANAGEMT 738 — Managing Innovation in a Global Organization

MANAGEMT 743 — The Legal Environment of Business

MANAGEMT 748 — Managing Human Assets and Organizational Change

MARKETNG 796 — Market Intelligence

MARKETNG 799 — Product Management

MARKETNG 802 — Marketing of Innovations

MARKETNG 807 — Marketing Strategy

MARKETNG 808 — Strategy and Tactics of Pricing

MGRECON 781 — Global Economic Environment of the Firm

MGRECON 782 — Environmental Economics

OPERATNS 822 — Information Systems for Production Management

OPERATNS 823 — Operations Strategy

OPERATNS 824 — Service Operations Management

OPERATNS 827 — Global Operations

OPERATNS 828 — Supply Chain Management

STRATEGY 895 — Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum or STRATEGY 896 — Strategic Planning Practicum

Why do some firms consistently outperform others? This is the core question motivating the study of Strategy. Strategy is at its heart about understanding and leveraging competitive dynamics with a focus on the emergence and persistence of above-average firm profits. Strategy emphasizes knowledge and skills that are necessary to understand, evaluate, and craft strategies be it in the role of manager, management consultant, or financial analyst. Strategy is vital to those pursuing careers as consultants and managers as well as to those pursuing careers in other professions such as finance, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Strategy is a key course in the core curriculum in our day MBA and Executive MBA programs. In addition, students have the opportunity to further deepen their knowledge of Strategy through the rich array of Strategy electives. Duke Strategy courses are consistently among some of the most popular in the curriculum and Duke Strategy faculty have won a number of teaching awards in recent years.

Duke MBA students benefit from interacting with one of the world's leading strategy faculties. Recent analyses rank Duke Strategy among the top three groups in the world in terms of scholarship. This translates to the classroom where students receive cutting-edge insight into important and timely real-world challenges.

Duke Strategy offers a wide range of courses. Students with a special interested in strategy may choose the Strategy Concentration, which is designed for students looking for careers with leading strategy consulting firms and for students who are interested in strategic planning or general management positions requiring similar skills. Extracurricular opportunities to focus on Strategy include participation in student clubs such as the Duke MBA Consulting Club.