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Women With Low Grades May Be More Likely Than Men With Low Grades to Abandon STEM Studies
Three Georgetown University researchers – economists Adriana Kugler and Olga Ukhaneva and management professor Catherine Tinsley – wrote in a recent working paper that…
September 8, 2017
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When Starbucks Shut Down Teavana, This Military Veteran Saw Opportunity
Their hope: to build a company that imports tea from post-conflict countries, and hire veterans in the U.S. to source, import, and process the tea, to help communities recover…
September 7, 2017
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Want to Motivate Your Team? Try Insults
Athletes do it. CEOs do it. People in the office and home do it. Trash-talking is as natural as breathing to some people. But how does it affect those who are the targets of such…
September 7, 2017
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What Changes To Gerrymandering Means for The Business Sector
“I don’t think it matters so systematically,” said Dennis Quinn, professor of economics at the Georgetown McDonough School of Business. “Remember that the biggest states…
September 7, 2017
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How Much Trouble Is Bob Menendez Actually In?
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez goes on trial today in a federal court in Newark, New Jersey, on charges of bribery in regard to his relationship with a campaign donor. Menendez, …
September 6, 2017
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How Trump Is Hindering the 2020 Census and Why It Matters
Robert Shapiro, a senior policy fellow at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, warns that the bureau’s census count “matters more than you think.” He…
September 1, 2017
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It’s a Big Year for Emerging Growth Companies
“It seems like a lot of companies have taken advantage of being an EGC,” says Reena Aggarwal, a professor of finance at Georgetown University and director of the Georgetown…
August 31, 2017
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STAWAR: Analyzing accidents
According to Catherine Tinsley from Georgetown University, multiple near misses invariably precede major accidents and man-made disasters. The infamous British Petroleum oil…
August 31, 2017
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The Admirable Success of the Jan Dhan Yojana
In a 2017 working paper, Georgetown University professor Sumit Agarwal and his co-authors studied account activity in 1.5 million PMJDY accounts from August 2014 to May 2015 (the…
August 30, 2017
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Appointments
Paul Almeida, deputy dean for executive education and innovation at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, to dean of the business.…
August 29, 2017