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Office Hours: Catherine Tinsley Explains Why Social Distancing Is So Hard
As humans, the impulse to maintain human connection runs deep. With the growing COVID-19 crisis, it has never been more difficult to stay connected, while being physically apart.…
April 21, 2020
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Georgetown Female Entrepreneurs Find Support in Innovative Courses and Accessible Faculty
Kelsey Lents (MBA’18) wasn’t expecting to create a startup during her time as a Georgetown MBA student. Yet Lents, who co-founded Two Birds, is part of a growing number of female…
April 21, 2020
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MBA Program Announces New Partnerships to Provide Financial Support for Mexican Students
The Full-time MBA Program at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business has established partnerships with two organizations in Mexico to provide scholarships and financial aid to…
April 13, 2020
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Georgetown University Announces New Program to Prepare Underrepresented Minority Middle School Students for College
In July, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will offer an innovative new program for rising 8th-grade students from underrepresented minority groups that…
February 20, 2020
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Georgetown Women MBAs in Finance Benefit from Innovative Courses, Powerful Faculty, and Abundant Resources
Each week in the Hedge Fund Investing course at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Erica Melito (MBA’20) recommended an investment strategy for a select company,…
February 7, 2020
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Georgetown Executive MBA Alumna Assesses the Inner Workings of Nonprofits to Effect Social Change
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 this the cornerstone of her…
January 20, 2020
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For Georgetown IBP Students, Global Consulting Projects Focus on Social Purpose
Before they graduate each December, Master of Arts in International Business and Policy (IBP) students at Georgetown University complete Social Action Projects. Working in small…
January 16, 2020
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Turning Over a New Leaf: Georgetown’s Pivot Program Teaches Formerly Incarcerated Individuals How to Enter the Business World
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…
January 6, 2020
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New Research Reveals How to Reverse the Gender Imbalance Among Corporate CEOs: Join a Corporate Board
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,…
January 6, 2020
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Women in Business Break New Ground: 60 Years of McDonough Alumnae
By Sona Pai When Rita Zekas Sielicki (B’60) came to Georgetown University to study accounting in the late 1950s, she could not help but notice her new classmates. “They had…
December 20, 2019