Georgetown Business is the alumni magazine of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Published twice a year, the magazine highlights successful and interesting alumni, covers the latest business trends and faculty research, and reports on school news, events, and student, faculty, and alumni accomplishments.
“ I ’ m a big question asker ,” says Andrew Clark ( B ’ 98 ), a trait he recalls was instilled in him by the Jesuits at Georgetown and then nurtured over 18 yea…
Social
impact — using business to do good — is a very Jesuit notion . Juanita Ortiz
( EMBA ’ 11 ), chief impact officer at Slingshot Memphis Inc ., has made thi…
There is a hidden crisis in the United States , according to J . Chuchi Arevalo ( MBA ’ 99 ), where many adults lack basic financial literacy skills . College kids…
Kadija Clifton was on the hunt for a job, but getting nowhere. Clifton’s frustrations went beyond the average job searcher’s. She had been released from prison in 2017 and found herself in an all-too-common plight among formerly incarcerated individuals who routinely are shut out of the job market.
For decades, women have been entering the workforce at equal numbers as men, and many have risen to the highest ranks of their companies as senior vice presidents, presidents, and chief operating officers. There has been one exception to this progress however: Very few women have become CEOs.
Sixty years after Georgetown ’ s first female business school graduate received her diploma , McDonough alumnae are leading the charge to level the playing field…
Through the Certificate in Nonmarket Strategy’s “only in D.C.” events, MBA students receive a deeper understanding of the ways in which business and leadership are shaped by forces beyond the market.