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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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Thirteen Faculty Join McDonough in 2018-2019

Georgetown McDonough welcomed new tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as visiting faculty members, teaching professors, lecturers, and faculty fellows, in the 2018-2019 academic year.

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Opinion: I-66 Tolls Cause Winners and Losers in the Daily Commute

An op-ed by Michael Douma, assistant research professor and director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics: “The tolls on Interstate 66 have been active now for over a month. Many of us who live to the west of Washington, D.C., have experienced significant changes in our daily commute.”

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Libertarianism vs. Meritocracy

An op-ed by Thomas Mulligan, faculty fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics: “The American Dream is a meritocratic ideal. Our national ethos is that no one should be guaranteed prosperity, but all citizens should have an equal opportunity to pursue it through their merit. What a person can become should turn only on his or her intelligence, effort, skill, and the like—and not arbitrary features, like race or parental wealth. That way, if a social hierarchy emerges, it is a “natural aristocracy”—as Thomas Jefferson put it—filled by “virtue and talents,” not “wealth and birth.

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Twelve New Faculty Join Georgetown McDonough

This year Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business welcomed four new tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as eight visiting faculty members, teaching professors, lecturers, and faculty fellows.

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Teaching the Teachers: The Georgetown Approach to Ethics Education

The Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics (GISME) hosted its second annual “Workshop on Teaching Professional Ethics through Experiential Learning: The Georgetown Approach” June 1-3. As business schools grow and the demand for ethics integrated in the curriculum grows along with them, GISME continues to play a leading role as a center that educates a new generation of business ethics professors.

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Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics Hosts Scholars of Criminal Law

The Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics (GISME) hosted a unique symposium on criminal law at the Georgetown Law Center on March 31.
The symposium, “Crime Without Fault: The Justifiability of Public Welfare Offenses and the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine” brought together 12 of the nation’s leading criminal law scholars to discuss the justifiability of punishing those who commit “public welfare offenses”– crimes that require no intent or knowledge that one is breaking the law.