Archive: McDonough Advantage
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Georgetown Entrepreneurs Win $100,000 in Prizes at “Bark Tank” Event
Hatch, a startup that provides coworking and child care solutions for working parents in the gig economy, won the grand prize.
Category: News Story
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Georgetown’s Literary Approach to Teaching Entrepreneurship
Last summer, Eric Koester was at the end of his rope. An adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Koester scheduled a meeting with Jeff Reid, head of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, that he planned to quit after the semester. Koester, widely considered a serial entrepreneur, has built a career around building businesses—either his own or others. After teaching for three years, he’d grown weary of making little headway with students.
Category: In the News item
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Why Does Everyone Suddenly Seem to Have a Side Hustle?
Patrick McGinnis is a venture capitalist and advisor to entrepreneurs, multi-national corporations, and the World Bank. An early investor in companies including ipsy, Afiniti, and Bluesmart, he is the author of the new book THE 10% ENTREPRENEUR: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Georgetown University, he is credited with coining the term FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out, which was added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2013.
Category: In the News item
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Georgetown McDonough Fall 2018 MBA Essays
The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University has published the updated application essays for the 2017-18 admissions cycle. Per the admissions website: “We want to hear your story. When responding to our required essays, be authentic and take time to reflect on your goals and past experiences. Craft a response that explains how these experiences led you to pursue an MBA.”
Category: In the News item
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Business School Deans Confess Their ‘Favorite’ Mistakes
“Trained as an engineer, I used to think the answer was all that mattered and did not think about how things were presented. At the Chrysler Corporation, I worked for a guy who first looked at the appearance of what was turned in, then at the information. I would just give him the answer – I thought making it look good was a waste of time. But down to the placement of staples in a document – they had to be vertical, not diagonal or horizontal – we had to make sure things were correct, or he would just hand it back to us. He taught me that presentation matters. Attention to detail is important. The interesting thing is that it has stuck with me – I’ve become that guy. He made me think more about the customer or other end-user of my information.” – Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University (McDonough), Interim
Category: In the News item