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Amazon Competitors Push Out Prime‑like Deals of Their Own
Fewer retailers appear to be offering competing sales, says Marlene Towns, professor of marketing at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. “It seemed like a…
July 10, 2017
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Wall Street Wins Round in Fight With Exchanges Over Audit System
Much like setting rates for public utilities, “everyone makes the case that someone else should bear the cost,” said James Angel, a Georgetown University finance professor…
July 10, 2017
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Thanks to Trump, America Shows True Leadership on the World Stage
An op-ed from Michael Czinkota, associate professor of marketing: “President Trump attended the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany. From a distance, the meeting aspects which are…
July 9, 2017
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Georgetown McDonough Fall 2018 MBA Essays
The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University has published the updated application essays for the 2017-18 admissions cycle. Per the admissions website: “We want to…
July 6, 2017
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Famous Traders’ Trades and Why They Don’t Help the Rest of Us, The Herald-Tribune
In addition, a much-talked-about paper by R. David McLean of Georgetown University and Jeffrey Pontiff of Boston College pointed out that the effectiveness of stock market…
July 6, 2017
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Keep Up…If You Can: Use Trash Talk to Motivate Yourself
“When you interact with someone who is trash talking you, it shifts your perception about the relationship,” says Jeremy Yip, an assistant professor of management at…
July 5, 2017
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2017’s Best & Worst States to Start a Business
Melissa Bradley, professor of the practice: “Entrepreneurship is a complex sport. For entrepreneurs to be successful, there are so many diverse factors that must align at the…
July 5, 2017
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Business School Deans Confess Their ‘Favorite’ Mistakes
“Trained as an engineer, I used to think the answer was all that mattered and did not think about how things were presented. At the Chrysler Corporation, I worked for a guy who…
July 3, 2017
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Blue Apron’s Stock Falls Below IPO Price, But All Isn’t Lost
Typically, the underwriters on an offering work to stabilize the stock price, keeping it above or at least around its issue price. The underwriters tend to do this for a couple…
July 1, 2017
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Why We Need to Kick Incivility Out of the Office
When left unchecked, not only does rampant incivility make our days more tense, it also leads to a loss of focus, a loss of productivity, a deliberate slacking off among…
June 30, 2017