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The Math Behind Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Gambit: Lower Payments Now, but Almost Double the Long-Term Costs

Janet Gao, an associate professor of finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, said more choices in financial products are usually good news for consumers, who can…

November 17, 2025

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The Impact of the Government Shutdown on Air Travel

Once the government reopens, "it could take a little while to unwind and get things running properly again," says Shye Gilad, professor of the practice in management at'…

November 13, 2025

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A Student-Built Platform to Match Voter Signatures Wins $30k at Georgetown Pitch Competition

Led by Michael Korvyakov (B’27) and Krish Malik (C’28), The Petition Co. uses AI software to read scanned voting-related documents to expedite the process of validating…

November 13, 2025

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Why the Shutdown Ending Doesn’t Mean that Flights Would Go Back to Normal Immediately

“I think connecting passengers are potentially even more at risk, more likely to experience fare increases, less frequent flights, less options” and potentially much longer…

November 7, 2025

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Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package Tying Him to Tesla for a Decade

Rohan Williamson, professor of finance at Georgetown University, said Musk’s argument for commanding such a vast paycheck is largely unique to Tesla — though similar deals…

November 7, 2025

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Eight Benefits of a Master’s in Management Degree

Ken Sawka, academic director of Georgetown McDonough's MiM program, and Nita Swinsick, associate dean for graduate and executive program admissions, share some of the benefits of…

November 5, 2025

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Layoffs Hit Amazon, UPS, Target, and More — but It Has Little to Do with AI

“If we take a look at Amazon, we know they hired very aggressively between 2017 and 2022, adding tons of workers during the pandemic, so I’m not surprised that there’s been…

November 3, 2025

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Layoffs Are Piling Up, Raising Worker Anxiety. Here Are Some Companies That Have Cut Jobs Recently

"It’s not so much AI directly taking jobs, but AI’s appetite for cash that might be taking jobs,” said Jason Schloetzer, associate professor at Georgetown University’s…

October 28, 2025

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Target Might Be Cutting Jobs, but Its ‘Kitchen Sink’ Moment Hasn’t Hit Yet

“Reducing complexity is code for eliminating existing initiatives that haven’t worked out as planned, reallocating some of the savings to new initiatives, and allowing some…

October 27, 2025

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Meta, Blue Owl and AI: Here Are the Details of Wall Street’s Biggest Private-Credit Deal Ever

This type of asset-based financing, where a financial security is collateralized by a pool of assets — in this case, the future lease payments from Meta — has become an…

October 24, 2025