Archive: Faculty
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Georgetown University Announces Partnership with General Curia of the Society of Jesus to Deliver Certificate in Discerning Leadership
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has developed a new certificate in Discerning Leadership for the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, in partnership with Le Moyne College and E
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Georgetown Faculty Members Bai and Monte Appointed Research Fellows for National Bureau of Economic Research
Two Georgetown McDonough faculty members, Jennie Bai and Ferdinando Monte, have been appointed faculty research fellows by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NBER, located in Cambridge
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New Faculty Bring Expertise in Fintech, Decision-Making, Diversity and Inclusion, and More
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business welcomed 11 new faculty for the 2019-2020 academic year. Tenured and tenure-track faculty Jennifer Logg, assistant professor of management, examines wh
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It’s Good To Be Home Again, Sri Lanka Guardian
An op-ed by Michael Czinkota, associate professor: “I have returned from my summer trip to Europe and report that conditions have changed. In England stood out for the views by its educated experts on money and markets. They don’t know and don’t care. New announcements and shifts are just shrugged off or, worse yet, ignored. Refusing to think or getting involved is the equivalent of Socrates’’ poisoned hemlock cup – conditions will not improve by themselves.”
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What the FTC’s $5B fine against Facebook means for the broader crackdown on Big Tech, GeekWire
That could change, according to Betsy Page Sigman, a Georgetown University professor specializing in social media and electronic commerce.
“Congress is likely to do anything that will put them in a better light these days,” she said. “And I certainly think reining in some unpopular aspects of high tech behavior these days would put Congress in a better light, and give them something that would be perceived as having benefits for their constituents.”
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Opinion: The Big Tech antitrust investigation may be a political game, but that doesn’t mean it will end quickly, MarketWatch
“Without much more information, this sounds more like the politics that the antitrust division has been playing for the last couple of years,” said Larry Downes, a senior industry and innovation fellow at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. “They know antitrust law has not changed in 20 years.”
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The Diversity Distortion, National Review
For decades, higher education leaders have been caught up in a mania for “diversity.” To prove their dedication to progressivism, they have made it a top priority to hire more and more women and minorities. But to do so, argues Georgetown professor John Hasnas in today’s Martin Center article, they have had to create lots of new positions that appeal almost exclusively to scholars in those groups.
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Why the Justice Department Waved Through the CVS-Aetna Merger, The American Prospect
Hal Singer is managing partner of Econ One, an economics consulting firm, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. He consulted to an independent specialty pharmacy on the CVS/Aetna merger.
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Jason Brennan Talks About Democracy And Capitalism (English version), Pauta
In this episode, Eduardo Olivares talks with philosopher Jason Brennan about the differences between socialism and capitalism. Brennan also offers his views on alternative ways to the democratic system, Jason Brennan is professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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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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