B. Fuqua was raised by his grandparents on a tobacco farm in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

While working at Duke University, former Professor Robert E. Whaley developed the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (ticker symbol: VIX), a measure of the implied market volatility.

[10] Another notable faculty member is Dan Ariely, an Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics.

Additionally, Fuqua's MBA program ranked 8th in the US for the percentage of students who had jobs 3 months after graduating.

[15] For the graduating, full-time MBA class of 2019, the top five hiring companies include: McKinsey & Co. (45), Amazon (38), BCG (37), Microsoft (23), Dell (18), and Google (18).