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Kirsten Andersen to Direct Oxford Summer Program
Kirsten Anderson, professor of the practice in accounting at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, has been appointed the new faculty director for the Oxford Summer Program.
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Building a Bridge of Hope
While in South Africa for his Global Experience consulting project, Jim Kyle had the opportunity to collaborate with nurses at the Jubilee District Hospital in Johannesburg. Also a nurse, Kyle saw the challenges that his counterparts there face and was inspired to find a way to help them overcome those challenges. The graduate student from the Executive Master’s in Leadership program at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business personally donated Samsung Galaxy tablets to encourage continued nursing leadership growth and development.
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Missed Economic Opportunity
J. Bradford Jensen Testifies Before Congress for Services Trade Liberalization to Boost U.S. Economy
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Fellowship Focuses on Undergraduate Research
The Undergraduate Program Office at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business offered Summer Research Fellowships for the first time in 2012. Students received either $2,500 for five-week projects or $5,000 for 10-week projects. Fourteen students participated in the inaugural program, in which they partnered with faculty members to study topics in accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, government relations, international business, marketing, and operations/information management.
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Supporting the Work of Military Members
When six active-duty military students in the Executive MBA (EMBA) class of 2012 enrolled in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2010, they had no idea that changes to the Post 9/11 GI Bill would lead to decreases in their tuition benefits. As they searched for the means to finish the 20-month program, they faced a delay in their graduation and the possibility of deployment during that time.
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Startup Hoyas
Entrepreneurs emerge from Georgetown University each year, but this summer the McDonough School of Business established itself as a home for their businesses by serving as an incubator for 15 groups of entrepreneurs from across campus.
The 11-week StartUpHoyas program, sponsored by the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, provided workspace in the Rafik B. Hariri Building; mentoring and advising from entrepreneurs-in-residence, faculty, and business professionals; and networking events with the growing entrepreneurship community in Washington, D.C. -
Experts Discuss Massachusetts Health Reform Law
Health reform experts gathered at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business on September 10 to discuss the role of local businesses in crafting the Massachusetts health reform law six years ago.
The panel discussion, titled The Impact of Health Reform on Business in Massachusetts: Lessons from Six Years of Experience, was moderated by the dean of the business school, David Thomas, and was co-sponsored by Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. -
Professor Delivers Congressional Testimony About U.S. Exports of Business Services
On Thursday, September 20, 2012, J. Bradford Jensen, professor of international business and economics at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, delivered the following testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, on the topic of “Opportunities for U.S. Exports of Business Services.” (Photo courtesy of Jeremy Tripp.)
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Betsy Sigman Receives Award from IBM
Betsy Sigman, distinguished teaching professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, recently was awarded a 2012 Faculty Award by IBM.
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Chris Long Receives Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management
Chris Long, assistant professor of management at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, was honored with the "Best Paper - Conflict in Context" award for his research on “How Managers’ Trust and Control Activities Influence Subordinates’ Perceptions” by the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. This award is given to an outstanding field-based paper studying organizational, political, or social conflict.