MBA Program Advances to #16 in the U.S. in Financial Times Ranking In the latest Financial Times Global MBA Ranking, Georgetown’s Full-time MBA program is 16th in the United States and 30th in the world, up from 18th and 40th last year. The Financial Times places a strong emphasis on the success of alumni three years after graduation, as well as the international character and diversity of the school. It collects data from surveys of alumni and business schools. The class of 2014, which completed this year’s alumni survey, also was the first cohort to complete the new school’s new MBA curriculum. Read More

Speaker Salon Enhances MBA Leadership Curriculum In previous centuries, intellectuals would gather around good food and wine to discuss everything from philosophy to culture to politics. This tradition of civil discussion and debate is what inspired J. Douglas Holladay, Heinz Christian Prechter Executive in Residence, to host Leadership Speaker Salons for Georgetown McDonough MBA students featuring prominent business executives. Read More

“Strategy Saturday” Connects Executive Degree Students to C-Suite Leaders School of Business brought 22 C-suite and senior leaders from the financial services, consulting, government, nonprofit, technology, and entertainment sectors to campus this spring. The inaugural Strategy Saturday gave students and alumni from the Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA, Executive Master’s in Leadership, and M.A. in International Business and Policy programs an opportunity to expand their global networks. Read More

Waldock Launches Podcast on Capitalism A love of finance, politics, and podcasts led Kate Waldock, assistant professor of finance, and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago Booth to create Capitalisn’t, a new podcast available on iTunes. Podcasts about politics, as well as those about finance, are crowded spaces, but Waldock and Zingales identified a niche in the media: economic policy, economic research, and understanding how businesses work. Read More

Leaders in Global Travel Discuss Technology, Generational, and Government Disrupters On April 5, five distinguished business leaders explored the relationships between the global travel business, technology, generational shifts, and government policies in an event at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business sponsored by the Office of Alumni and External Relations and the Global Business Initiative. The panel was moderated by Ricardo Ernst, Baratta Chair in Global Business, professor of operations and global logistics, and director of the Global Business Initiative. Read More

New Book Offers Blueprint for Today’s Social Change Movements Some movements soar while others stagnate. The new book How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t explores why some of the most significant movements of the 21st century have succeeded and what emerging movement leaders can do to advance their causes. Read More

Real Estate Mentorship Program Connects Students and Alumni The Georgetown University Real Estate Alliance Mentorship Program, with support from the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, connects undergraduate and MBA students with alumni who can add a unique and essential dimension to the students’ academic experience. The program enhances students’ career experiences and opportunities and has led to placements at top real estate firms, according to Matthew Cypher, the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate and director of the Steers Center. Read More

McDonough Announces Partnership for Global Fintech Innovation and Education Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the Fintech Consortium (FinCon) have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on numerous initiatives related to Fintech innovation and education. Read More