Archive: Featured Speakers

• Penny Pennington Addresses Professional Mentorship

  Penny Pennington, recently named managing partner of investment firm Edward Jones, reflected on her career, lessons she has learned about leadership, and the values that make Edward Jones a success in a Nov. 29 event for MBA students at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.

  Category: News Story Tags: Featured Speakers, MBA

• MA-IBP Students Discuss the Global Economy with Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States

  Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S., hosted Master of Arts in International Business and Policy (MA-IBP) students at the Singaporean embassy in Washington, D.C. Mirpuri discussed Singapore’s economic and diplomatic trajectory, as well as its current and future challenges.

  Category: News Story GBI Only Tags: Featured Speakers, Global, Global Business Initiative, M.A. in International Business and Policy

• Global Business Initiative Hosts Sustainability Summit at National Geographic

  Executives from five major corporations discussed how they’re implementing sustainability efforts at a global summit on Thursday, Nov. 8, at National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, DC, Featured Speakers, Global, Global Business Initiative

• Lamborghini CEO: Company Success Comes From Constant Innovation

  Maintaining a luxury brand requires passion and innovation to deliver an effective customer experience, said Alessandro Farmeschi, CEO of Lamborghini Americas, at an event hosted by Georgetown Retail and Luxury Association and the GBI.

  Category: News Story GBI Only Tags: Featured Speakers, Global, Global Business Initiative

• Bust of Rafik B. Hariri Unveiled at Hariri Symposium

  A newly commissioned bust of Rafik B. Hariri was unveiled Oct. 9 at the annual Hariri Symposium. The school is housed in the Rafik B. Hariri Building, named after the late prime minister of Lebanon.

  Category: News Story Tags: Featured Speakers, Global

• McKenna of Global Social Enterprise Initiative Testifies in Congressional Hearing, "Investing in Rural America"

  The Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access and the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade met for a joint hearing titled, ‘Investing in Rural America’ on Tuesday, July 24. Matthew M. McKenna, executive in residence of the Global Social Enterprise Initiative’s Rural Opportunity Initiative, served as a witness.

  Category: News Story Tags: DC, Featured Speakers

• Ms. Speaker Person

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• The Power of Women from Wall Street to Entrepreneurship

  Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and co-founder, Ellevest, addressed key issues around diversity and inclusion for women pursuing careers in finance and entrepreneurship in an April 26 event.

  Category: News Story Tags: Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship Initiative, Featured Speakers, Finance

• Luminaries Event Examines Impact of Technological, Demographic, and Cultural Changes on Real Estate

  The Real Estate Luminaries Series is the year’s highlight for the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.

  Category: News Story Tags: Featured Speakers, Steers Center for Global Real Estate

• Ursula Burns to Graduates: Actively Engage in Change for the Better

  Ursula Burns asked the Georgetown McDonough class of 2018 to emerge from the sidelines and actively engage in change for the better so that future generations do not face the same obstacles she encountered.

  Category: News Story Tags: Executive Master's in Leadership, Executive MBA, Featured Speakers, M.S. in Finance, MBA, Undergraduate Program