Alumni
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Meet The 51 Women Competing To Be Miss America 2020
Jade Glab hails from Belmar, New Jersey, and studied at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She now combines two of her biggest passions — music and health — to empower children through a social-impact initiative.
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30 Under 30 – Social Entrepreneurs 2020
While studying abroad in 2016, someone slipped drugs into Danya Sherman’s drink and took advantage of the situation. But she turned that trauma into triumph by creating a cocktail napkin that changes color when it comes in contact with just a few drops of liquid laced with drugs. In addition to participating in the Target Accelerator, she has received support from Kairos and Halcyon House.
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Community Projects Are A Win-Win For EMBA Students And Society
Sachin Nagrani, who recently graduated from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington DC, went to Colombia to help former Farc rebels market their coffee to global supply chains. Working with coffee farmers might seem unrelated to Nagrani’s current role at a digital healthcare start-up, but he took away important lessons about being attuned to business problems — a skill he applies to his new venture. “We learnt from them that the ideas we might get from textbooks may not be executable, given other constraints,” he says.
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Georgetown Entrepreneurs Win $100,000 in Prizes at Annual “Bark Tank” Event
A web platform that connects students with side businesses to the broader marketplace is worth investing in, according to Ted Leonsis (C’77, P’14, P’15) founder, chairman, principal, and chief execut
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How An MBA Can Further A Career In Social Impact
Tory Paez (MBA‘20) entered business school with a desire to combine her consulting experience with her passion for social impact. Throughout her time at Georgetown, she has pursued classes, experiences and projects that have furthered her passion for a career in social impact, and the skills needed to be successful. She shared how she is using her MBA to build the skills she needs for a successful career in social impact, and how her time at Georgetown is helping her achieve that goal.
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Meet The Most Disruptive MBA Startups Of 2019
Melissa Antal (MBA’19) of Foublie, Inc. and Maria Margarita Womack (EMBA’19) of M’Panadas were listed among Poets&Quants most disruptive start-ups of 2019.
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The Douglas Dynasty
Talib Shakir, Pivot Program fellow, appeared in an interview with Diane Sawyer in a series, The Douglas Dynasty, about Cameron Douglas and surviving prison.
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Alumni Receive Awards for Service to Georgetown McDonough
On Oct. 5, three alumni of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business received awards for exemplary service to the school as part of the 2019 Graduate Alumni Reunion. Michael Piwowar (MBA’94) was
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WeWork Gets Two New CEOs: “This Is Artie. He’s The Adult In The Room”
Artie Minson, according to a person familiar with the company, is a polished executive who represents a “sober choice” for WeWork. Minson studied accounting at Georgetown University and earned his master’s in business administration from Columbia Business School. As an accountant, he worked at Ernst & Young before starting work in the media industry.
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Celebrity Chef And Coronado Resident Melissa D’Arabian Authors Book On Faith And Food, Coronado Island News (September 20, 2019)
[Melissa] D’Arabian described her decision to attend Georgetown University to pursue her MBA. “I was in my junior year of college when Mom passed away and she is buried in Rockville, Maryland. I wanted to be near her and still establish my own identity. At Georgetown I could be close to Mom. At the same time, I wanted to be in international business, be an acquisition attorney, and Georgetown has a good law school which teaches global thinking and Washington is an international city. I was 21 when I graduated from college and 22 when I went to business school. I just wanted to be near her. Of course that’s the 50-year-old me looking back at me when I was 20.”
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