Biography | Tim Cook — The Fuqua Drive School That Ranked Him in the Top Tenth

People treat the MBA as a line on an executive biography. The honor on this campus was specific. Cook took a master of business administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988. The school sits at 100 Fuqua Drive on Duke's West Campus in Durham. He was named a Fuqua Scholar, an honor the school gives students who finish in the top 10 percent of the class. The MBA ran while he was already working at IBM in the personal-computer business. After Auburn he had spent the first years of his career at IBM, later as director of North American fulfillment for the PC company. Duke sat between those IBM years and the later moves to Intelligent Electronics and then Compaq. He returned here as a member of Duke's Board of Trustees in 2015 and as the 2018 commencement speaker. Breeden Hall is the public face of the school a visitor reaches from Science Drive. The 1988 classrooms were already on this plot. The complex has grown around them. This pin is the business school, not a private house in Durham or in California. Photo: Breeden Hall at the Fuqua School of Business, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait: Tim Cook after the Macworld Expo keynote, January 2009, Valery Marchive, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.