Howie Rhee

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area United States

Managing Director, Student and Alumni Affairs, Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke University

Education

Going to MIT as an undergrad (1993-1998), I was surrounded by a lot of entrepreneurs. This rubbed off on me and I started a company when I was a junior and moved to New York City for a year. When I came to Duke for my MBA at Fuqua (2002-2004), I was still interested in entrepreneurship, but realized the environment wasn't as conducive to entrepreneurship. In an Independent Study with Prof. Kip Frey, I did some research on what Fuqua should do to be a top entrepreneurial school. In addition to maxing out my entrepreneurship courses, I also went through the year-long TEC Program at NC State. Worked at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), where I ran the Entrepreneur Devel...