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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 &…

August 31, 2021

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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…

August 24, 2021

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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…

June 21, 2021

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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…

June 14, 2021

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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…

June 3, 2021

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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…

May 25, 2021

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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,.…

April 27, 2021

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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…

April 27, 2021

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Xi’s Next Target in Tech Crackdown is China’s Vast Reams of Data

“You need companies that are very competitive,” said Lizhi Liu, an assistant professor who has written about data politics in.…

April 23, 2021

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Peloton’s Clash with Agency Over Treadmill Safety Threatens to Tarnish Brand

“There is a rule of thumb dating way back to the Tylenol case, where people were poisoned,” said Luc Wathieu, a professor of.…

April 20, 2021