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A Year in Review: Georgetown McDonough’s Top Moments of 2022

As the calendar year comes to a close, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business is celebrating the successes, milestones, and accomplishments of 2022. We advanced key…

December 21, 2022

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The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Celebrates 20 Influential Years at McDonough

After two decades of engaging business and public policy leaders, scholars, industry experts, and students, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) is…

December 20, 2022

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Georgetown McDonough Hosts Inaugural Spectrum Summit To Address Innovations and Challenges in Digital Connectivity

The Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business held its inaugural Spectrum Summit, which brought together experts in law,…

November 16, 2022

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McDonough Professor Catherine Tinsley Appointed to Kate Spade New York’s Social Impact Board to Address Women Empowerment, Mental Health

Kate Spade New York recently launched a new Social Impact Council, comprising several leading women’s empowerment and mental health leaders from around the globe, to further…

March 8, 2022

In the News item

Biden’s First 100 Days: What Will He Actually Get Done?

Biden has also set up his White House staff to handle the logistics around vaccine administration and other pandemic mitigation efforts, said Rob Shapiro, founder of economic…

January 12, 2021

In the News item

Cisco Vows to Go to Court After Acacia Tries to Cancel $2.6 Billion Merger

“Companies try to get out of mergers all the time and it usually has nothing to do with the thing they cite as the reason for getting out of it,” said Larry Downes, project…

January 8, 2021

In the News item

Trump is Wrong Again: U.S. Manufacturing is Not Recovering

An op-ed by Robert Shapiro, a senior fellow at the Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown McDonough: The headline from the Commerce Department’s new report on the…

July 28, 2020

In the News item

Report: U.S. Networks Outperform Europe’s During COVID-19 Pandemic

The Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business released a paper detailing how broadband networks held up under the bandwidth…

June 22, 2020

In the News item

Why Were the Unemployment Numbers So Messed Up?

“There is good reason to be skeptical of [the Trump] administration’s latest report,” said Robert J. Shapiro, chair of the consultancy Sonecon and a fellow at Georgetown…

June 8, 2020

In the News item

T-Mobile Joins the Ranks of Major Carriers as Sprint Acquisition Closes

“I always thought it made a lot of sense,” said Larry Downes, project director for the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. “Sprint was not a viable,…

April 1, 2020