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Experiential Learning gets MBA Students out of Their Comfort Zones
In recent years, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington DC, has added numerous other experiential opportunities, including through its Venture Fellows Program, where students engage in a year-long apprenticeship at a local venture capital firm.
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Online MBA Programs in Real Estate Proliferate
“Employment has never been more robust than it has been coming out of the pandemic,” says Matthew Cypher, director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC.
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Georgetown McDonough Launches MS in Environment & Sustainability Management
As business schools are starting to resume in-person classes for the fall, many students are looking forward to returning to campus and connecting with fellow classmates & professors. This year, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business made an announcement that made the return to campus even more memorable…
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Viewpoint Diversity About DEI? The Business Schools Weigh In
The connection between philanthropy and higher education is perhaps obvious: Foundations and individual donors provide generous support to universities to help make teaching and scholarship possible across all disciplines and approaches.
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After Pandemic Decimated Air Travel, These Low-Cost Start-Ups Are the First New U.S. Air Carriers in 14 Years
The pandemic’s disruption has created opportunities for entrepreneurs in the airline sector as it has for other industries, said Jeff Reid, founding director of Georgetown Entrepreneurship and a professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
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Revealed: The 40 Under 40 Class of 2021
The Washington Business Journal is pleased to announce the honorees for our 2021 40 Under 40. This annual list of business owners, CEOs, nonprofit executives, attorneys and other corporate leaders shines a light on names you should get to know.
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Women in Business: One School’s Story
In 1956, Rita (Zekas) Sielicki applied to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to study accounting. Four years later, she was the first woman to graduate from what would become the McDonough School of Business.
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Drew Leaves Veteran Small Business Owner of Blush Box Speechless After Major Surprise
Drew meets small business owner and veteran Kathy Oliphant-Wilson (MBA’14), who runs Blush Box, to find out why she was so passionate about starting the company. Drew’s also surprises her with $5,000.
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Young Investors See a ‘Buying Opportunity’ If Biden Raises Capital-Gains Taxes on America’s Millionaires
“There are some who may view it as, ‘Oh, here’s my opportunity to get on board,’” said James Angel, professor.
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Nearly 70 Million Americans Have Criminal Records. We Must Give Them a Second Chance
Fellow CEOs from Business Roundtable, a founding partner of the Second Chance Business Coalition, along with the Society for Human Resource Management, Stand Together, Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation and the Georgetown University Pivot Program.
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