Archive: Center for Financial Markets and Policy
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MBA Program Announces Fellowships in Entrepreneurship and Fintech
Two new fellowship opportunities highlight how Georgetown McDonough continues to infuse its MBA program with opportunities to gain hands-on experience in a variety of industries. This fall, the sc
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Michael Psaros Receives AHEPA’s Socrates Award, National Herald
[Michael Psaros] received a BS/BA in Finance from Georgetown University and attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and serves on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Advisors of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown University Center for Financial Markets and Policy. He and his spouse created The Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2013.
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Amazon’s Stock Price On Its 25th Anniversary Shows The Potential Of Investing Early In Game-Changing Companies That Become Consumer Favorites, Business Insider
Leadership is important in assessing the success or failure of a young company. It’s important to look at senior leadership, the plan they present for future growth, and their ability to execute that plan, John Jacobs, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy and the former chief marketing officer of Nasdaq, told Markets Insider.
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E-Trade CEO Emphasizes Importance of Customer Service to Digital Experience
E-Trade CEO Karl Roessner discussed the importance of customer satisfaction to the financial services company’s brand and provided his thoughts on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence at an April 10 event at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, presented by the Center for Financial Markets and Policy’s Global Finance Speaker Series and the school’s Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series.
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#Trending: Quarterly Earnings — Generating Value For Stakeholders
Quarterly earnings serve as a report card to investors. Georgetown McDonough experts discuss how the earnings reporting landscape has changed, as well as examine evolving metrics that denote success beyond the bottom line.
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Georgetown Ranked Sixth in Blockchain Universities
Georgetown University ranked sixth this year in CoinDesk’s list of blockchain universities, which measured institutions’ investments in curriculum about the technology. The McDonough School of Business contributes to the university’s rankings through programming and the strong presence of blockchain technology in the school’s curriculum.
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Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Joins Georgetown’s McDonough School Of Business
Michael Piwowar, former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is joining the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as a distinguished policy fellow.
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Even Crypto Skeptics Embrace Blockchain
John Jacobs, a former Nasdaq executive who’s now the [executive director of Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business], said he ‘constantly’ gets calls from recruiters asking, “We need people to understand how to apply blockchain technology.”
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Aggarwal Elected Vice President of Financial Management Association International
Professor of Finance Reena Aggarwal was elected vice president of the annual meeting program for the Financial Management Association International, where she will be responsible for organizing the celebration of the 50th anniversary of FMA in 2020.
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Blockchain 101: What Accountants Need To Know
John Jacobs, executive director of the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University who also happens to be a CPA, likens blockchain to double-entry bookkeeping on multiple ledgers. But those multiple ledgers all update simultaneously as financial transactions—the date, payee, and amount—are entered and verified by the ledger’s users. Subscription required.
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