Archive: Finance
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Apple Card? Google Checking Account? Why Big Tech Wants To Be Your Banker
“Imagine your personal financial assistant, who basically keeps track of your spending but also integrates with other information on your life,” says James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Because it knows your location, it can tell what store you’re in, guess what you’ll buy, and alert you to places that sell it cheaper. Or it might warn you not to enter a particular store because your bank account is particularly low.
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The New Ford Mustang Is Electric. But Battery-Powered Cars Raise Complicated Questions For Workers.
Rohan G. Williamson, professor of finance at Georgetown University, said that major automakers will have to reinvent themselves and their workforces.
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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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Scholarship To Honor Professor John Dealy’s Commitment To Gender Equity In The Technology Industry – Georgetown McDonough School Of Business
This month, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business established the Dealy Scholarship, a merit-based award for students who exemplify the values of gender equality in technology, finance, consulting, or other business fields. Prashant Malaviya, Senior Associate Dean of MBA Programs at McDonough, says, “Gender equity is important to the future of business—whether in an MBA program or a corporate boardroom, there is tremendous value in diversity and inclusion … We are excited to begin awarding the Dealy scholarship to individuals who show [this] commitment.”
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FT Masters In Management Ranking 2019: Analysis
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington DC this year launched its first MiM, designing a curriculum with a focus on technology and innovation. The first cohort of 31 students started the 11-month program in July. Evelyn Williams, the course’s academic director, says the course was created because the school identified a need for students with bachelors degrees to learn the language of business in order to bridge the gap between school and the world of work.
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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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Can Uber And Lyft Survive If California’s Worker Protections Go Nationwide?
“Right now they are both in the mode of ‘let’s capture market share,’ and the bottom line is less important than capturing revenue and market-share growth, but once you become a public company and you have to release your earnings every quarter, people will be very closely monitoring your earnings,” Reena Aggarwal, a professor of finance and director of the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business told MarketWatch in May, regarding to the companies initial public offerings. “There is going to be a lot of focus on that. They will have to raise prices, because of the pressures.”
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WeWork Delays I.P.O. After Chilly Reception From Investors
“If you really need to raise capital, and need to do an I.P.O., you have to think about corporate governance,” said Reena Aggarwal, a finance and business professor at Georgetown University.
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Chamber Of Commerce Argues Against Democratic Proposals For Financial Transaction Taxes
The group’s paper, which was written by Georgetown University finance professor James Angel, argues that the tax would directly and indirectly be paid by ordinary investors, such as retirees and those saving for college, rather than by Wall Street. The paper estimated that under Sanders’s proposal, the average individual retirement account investor would have about $20,000 less when they retire.
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After Breakneck Expansion, WeWork Stumbles As It Nears I.P.O., New York Times (September 5, 2019)
“I can’t think of another I.P.O. where they halved the valuation,” said Reena Aggarwal, a finance and business professor at Georgetown University. “This certainly shakes up confidence and makes people pause.”
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