Archive: Faculty
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The Heat: RCEP Trade Deal
It’s called the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP. It includes 10 ASEAN countries and five of its major trading partners: China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Together, the fifteen countries aim to create a massive trading bloc covering a third of the world’s gross domestic product. Until recently, India was expected to sign onto the deal. But, Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdrew, saying the pact would hurt its farmers, businesses and consumers. With or without India, the deal is expected to be signed next year. To discuss all of this: Atul Aneja is the China Associate Editor for the Indian daily newspaper, The Hindu. Arthur Dong is a professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Saruhan Hatipoglu is CGTN’s Global Economics Analyst and the CEO of BERI. Steve Keen is a distinguished research fellow with University College London and author of “Debunking Economics.”
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Sanders’s Tax Would Hit Small Investors
The economic case against the tax is persuasive, too. According to a study of Mr. Sanders’s proposed FTT by Georgetown economist James Angel, the tax could reduce retirement savings by as much as 8.5% over a typical worker’s lifetime. These significant losses for ordinary investors may be one reason why the Obama administration’s economic team, which considered proposing its own FTT, ultimately decided against it.
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Big Tech Wants Into Your Wallet So They Can Get More Data, Like Their Chinese Rivals
“If you know what someone spends money on, you know everything about them,” said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
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Become A Speechwriter And Reduce Stage Fright
There, article author, Sarah Gershman, speaker coach and professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, describes how several independent research studies have shown that the actions we do to be generous to others, called altruism, help us experience lower levels of stress and anxiety. When we do things in order to be good to others, we are thus rewarded by ourselves getting better emotional and mental health.
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How Change Happens: Why Do Some Social Movements Succeed and Others Fail?
What does (and doesn’t) work in building the better world we dream about? Why do some movements for social change succeed while others fizzle or even fail? For considering these questions, one of the most helpful resources I have found recently is the book How Change Happens by Leslie Crutchfield. She is the executive director of Georgetown University’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative. She and her team have researched some of the major recent movements for social change in the United States to find common patterns.
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Georgetown MBA Grads Set Another Pay Record
“With a tailored approach to the search process, the MBA Career Center strives to deliver on each student’s individual goals for earning their MBA,” says Doreen Amorosa, associate dean of McDonough Career Services, in a news release from the school. “Building from our recent Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of having the best-trained graduates in the world, we expect to continue to match the best talent to highly sought-after employers.”
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New Generations Handling Wealth In Very Different Ways, Federal News Network (November 11, 2019)
While entrepreneurship is on the rise, and is more often being considered as a go-to for people hoping to ensure their family’s comfort and help the world, it can be incredibly difficult and stressful to understand what to actually do with money once you have it. To learn more about how entrepreneurs should save and spend their money, we spoke with William Finnerty, managing director and private wealth manager at UBS Private Wealth.
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Why Alabama And Mississippi Have Suddenly Gone In Opposite Directions
Our approach to Labor Department data was similar to that used by economists Bradford Jensen, Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth at Georgetown University to analyze how trade and unemployment shape presidential elections. They found rising unemployment and increasing vulnerability to trade in an area hurt incumbent presidential candidates.
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3 Ways Your Leadership Will Improve When You Demonstrate More Respect
In an interesting Harvard Business Review article on The Leadership Behavior That’s Most Important to Employees, the author Christine Porath shares that being more respectful doesn’t just benefit you, it benefits everyone around you.
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Amid A Booming U.S. Job Market, Now Is A Great Time To Get An MBA, FIND MBA (November 8, 2019)
Corporate recruiters want to see strong work experience, a convincing “why” for their companies, plus technical and communication skills, says Daniel Couladis, associate director of the MBA Career Center at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
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