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Five Kellogg Students Named Siebel Scholars
This article was originally sourced from “Meet the 2014 Siebal Scholars” on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Each year, top graduate students around the world are invited to join the Siebal Scholars Program, a community consisting of 870 members selected for their high leadership and academic performance. Each of the 85 graduate students selected each year receives an award of $35,000 to go towards their final year of studies.
This year, five Kellogg full-time MBA students were named Siebal Scholars, including Ann Kaplan, Scott Arnone, Otman El Manser, Abhishek Gugutia, and Emily Johnson. Kaplan came to Kellogg from a management consulting background and interned in Walgreens’ Merchandising Planning & Analysis group. Arnone held a position in the Department of Defense before pursuing a Kellogg MBA with a major in International Business and was a summer associate at Bain & Company. El Manser has spent time in Morocco (where he was born and raised), in addition to France, the Philippines, and now the United States. He is now interning in a marketing strategy role at Dell in Austin, Texas. Continue reading…
Simmons Offers Health Care MBA Showcase for Prospective Students
On Tuesday, December 10, the Simmons School of Management will offer a showcase for prospective Health Care Management MBA students. The program aims to provide students with all the information they would need to start their MBA program in 2014.
The event will provide more information about MBA financing options at Simmons, and the overall application process. School representatives will also talk about program scheduling for the Health Care Management MBA, and will give prospective students more information about career placement opportunities. During the program, Simmons representatives will also discuss why getting an MBA in Health Care Management can offer students greater opportunities than an advanced degree in a health care field or a traditional MBA with a health care concentration.
Simmons’ health care MBA is a 54-credit, three year program where health care courses make up 67 percent of the curriculum. Courses include “Health Economics,” “Health Care Marketing,” “Health Care Law and Ethics,” “Seminar in International Health,” and “Strategic Thinking and Analytical Decision Making.” More information about the degree is available at the Simmons Health Care Management MBA site.
The event begins at 5:30 pm on December 10. It will take place at 300 The Fenway on Simmons’ campus in Boston, and free parking will be available. To RSVP for this event, you can register online at the admission website, email admissions representatives at somadm@simmons.edu, or call the admissions office at 617-521-3840. The application for Spring 2014 is available now at Simmons’ Health Care Management site.
Smith MBAs Compete and Win in M&A Competition
A slew teams from the country’s top MBA programs met to compete against each other for who could offer the best pitch in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business 7th annual Mergers and Acquisitions Competition on November 7-8. The competition took place at the university’s College Park campus and Smith’s team went on to capture the event’s $5,000 first prize.
The competition took the form of a hypothetical case that asked students to analyze the sports apparel industry. MBAs devised their strategies through the night on Thursday before pitching their suggestions for strategic merger and acquisition alternatives to judges on Friday.
Trend Toward Healthcare and High Tech Industries at USC Marshall
Whether the opportunities in healthcare and high technology are growing or whether USC Marshall School of Business graduates merely possess the skill set required to succeed in these fields, Marshall students and graduates are obtaining internships and careers in these industries.
According to a 2012 report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce, the healthcare industry comprises 18 percent of the U.S. economy and that estimated growth in the industry will yield 5.6 million new jobs by 2020. As for technology, though the Los Angeles Times reported in August that growth rates in the industry have plateaued, California is second only to Washington, D.C. in terms of the proliferation of high-tech positions, according to the Praxis Strategy Group.
Columbia Organizes Tenth Annual Healthcare Conference
Columbia Business School has announced that it will host its 10th annual Healthcare Conference, which will have the theme “Creating Value-Based Solutions for a Discerning Healthcare Buyer”. The conference aims to address how healthcare professionals can help customers make informed decisions about the value and relative costs of different healthcare services, and enhance outcomes and address the needs of consumers. The conference will discuss how to support technologies and create models to support health care professionals in addressing those goals.
Annually, more than five hundred people from top-tier business schools, including Columbia Business School, and industry professionals attend the conference. The conference offers a variety of panel topics to interest health care students and professionals, including “Biopharmaceuticals,” “Healthcare Merger & Acquisitions and Financing,” “Investing in New Medical Technologies,” “Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital,” “Healthcare Services (ACA/Healthcare Reform),” “Healthcare Services (Provider and Payer Strategies).” The conference will also feature three keynote speakers: Robert J. Hugin, the Chairman and CEO of Celgene; Giovanni Colella, the CEO and Co-founder of Castlight Health and a 1995 Columbia MBA Alumnus and Popper Scholar, and Eric C. Rackow, the President and CEO of SeniorBridge Humana. All three keynote speakers have extensive experience in the healthcare industry. Continue reading…
MBA Entrepreneurship Centers Reaching Out to More Students
An article in the latest edition of BizEd Magazine highlights a fundamental shift in the teaching philosophy of entrepreneurship centers at business schools. Some business schools’ entrepreneurship centers have shifted from nurturing the talents of a few skilled potential entrepreneurs to trying to encourage an entrepreneurial culture for the university as a whole.
Not everyone can be or wants to be an entrepreneur. If everyone was an entrepreneur, after all, there would be no support staff to help entrepreneurs get their ventures off the ground. Business schools are starting to use their entrepreneurship centers to educate a wider segment of their university’s population about entrepreneurship to encourage “entrepreneurial thinking”, a skill that will help students contribute to startups or succeed in future careers inside and outside of business. Continue reading…
Villanova Recieves $50 Million Gift
The Villanova School of Business has just announced that it has received a $50 million dollar gift from alumnus James C. Davis ’81 and his wife. Davis is the founder of a private staffing company called Allegis Group. The gift is the largest gift to the university in Villanova’s 170 year history.
The gift is unusual because it is not a naming gift. Often, when individuals give millions of dollars to a school in a single gift, a building, landmark, or even a college is named for the donor. However, Davis wants to pay Villanova back for his “values-based education” by providing money for new technologies, improved career advising, scholarships, and new study abroad and internship opportunities. Continue reading…
Fordham Gabelli to Host Entrepreneurship Conference
On November 13, 2013, Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business will host TrepCon, an entrepreneurship conference featuring speeches from business leaders, career advice, and networking opportunities. The event runs from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM and is open to everyone, but is only free for Fordham students and staff. The ticket cost for the general public is $100, and the alumni ticket cost is $25.
The event begins with a breakfast for all participants. The first speaker is John Caplan, the founder and CEO of OpenSky and the TrepCon keynote speaker. OpenSky is a social shopping site that currently has 3 million members. It was named one of Forbes’ 2012 Most Promising Companies, after citing a $4 million dollar increase in revenue over one year, and total revenues of $18 million. Caplan is sure to discuss his experience at OpenSky, but may also talk about his earlier work as the president of About.com and the CEO of Ford Models. Continue reading…
George Mason Elects 20 Alums “Prominent Patriots in Business”
On October 4, George Mason School of Management hosted its Annual Business Alumni Celebration and honored 20 School of Management graduates who best represent the School’s mission and ideals, identifying these individuals as the 20 Prominent Patriots in Business. George Mason describes these Patriots as “engaged citizens, well-rounded scholars, and people prepared to act through innovation, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurialism.” Among the 20 Patriots, four were graduates of George Mason’s full-time MBA program: Bruce M. Case (’01), Harold C. Rauner, Jr. (’86), Daryl Wieland (’96), and Michael Zeiders (’84). Continue reading…
Washington DC MBAs Decline Government Jobs
The number of MBAs in the DC metro taking jobs in government has dropped steeply in recent years. At American University Kogod School of Business’s numbers have dropped by half. At nearby George Washington University School of Business, the decline has been even steeper: from 19% of its graduating class taking government jobs in 2011, just 5% took government jobs last year.
Explanations for the decline vary.
“The reality is that the growth in opportunities is in the private sector,” Gil Yancey, of GW’s School of Business’s career services, recently told BusinessWeek–favoring the theory that MBA students are responding to changes in demand. Continue reading…
DC Schools See Rising Interest in Education Management
MBA students at George Washington University have been enrolling in education courses at increasing rates.
Following a nationwide trend, students have been pursuing an interest in the field despite notoriously low salaries.
“That’s what’s so unique about this trend. M.B.A.’s being interested in a new industry where they think they can make money is nothing new. M.B.A.’s pursuing a path that isn’t likely to ever pay off in a big way financially … is new,” Miro Kazakoff recently told USNews. Kazarov, who himself holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, is cofounder of Testive, a website that helps students predict their scores on standardized tests.
Business education can help students with education management, the burgeoning field of education technology, and educational policy–which all help to explain why it might hold particular interest for students in the DC area. Continue reading…
Loyola Sellinger Lets MBAs Complete Degree Overseas
As we covered in a recent primer, MBA programs around the nation are meeting the needs of an increasingly global business environment by offering students expanded opportunities to study abroad. But few schools have taken the trend as far as Loyola University, which is now letting its MBA students complete their degrees abroad.
Loyola University has joined a group of 22 U.S.-based Jesuit schools in a unique agreement to allow students to complete their degrees at five Jesuit institutions located in Spain, Korea, Taiwan, and Peru. Continue reading…
Maryland Smith Starts New Online MBA Program
It’s the classic dilemma. An MBA degree offers business education, career prospects and contacts that promise to pay dividends years down the road, but it comes at a heavy price: steep tuition and the sacrifice of two years on the workforce.
Business schools have been responding by offering MBA programs with increasing flexibility, and the last few years have seen a spate of new online MBA programs. Early next year, Maryland University’s Smith School of Business will join their ranks. Its new Online MBA aims to give working professionals all the advantages of a traditional MBA–on their own time.
“This is a major step forward for the university and for business professionals who need flexible access to academic excellence,” said UMD’s President Wallace Loh in a recent school press release. “The Smith School is combining a state-of-the-art online platform with the academic rigor that makes it a leader.” Continue reading…
Design Leadership MBA at JHU Enters Second Year
Love design? Interested in business? You might want to think about John Hopkins’s Design Leadership MBA.
Entering its second year at the Carey School of Business, the innovative Design Leadership MBA continues breaking new ground. When the program started last fall, it was the first MBA program in the nation to form a joint degree with an art school–local Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Now its cohort of fourteen is heading into its second year, and the program will see its first graduates early this summer. Continue reading…
Direct from the Dean: Fordham’s David Gautschi
In our continuing series of conversations with the deans of top MetroMBA schools, we spoke most recently with Dean David Gautschi of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA) in New York City. Gautschi joined Fordham GBA in 2010 from the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, where he spent five years as dean and professor of marketing and economics.
Gautschi’s experience in business education is vast. He began his academic career at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (now the Johnson Graduate School of Management) and has since served on the faculties of INSEAD, Yale University’s School of Organization and Management, the University of Washington’s School of Business Administration and RPI. Continue reading…
Lehigh Alumni Host Financial Services Forum for Students
The Lehigh Wall Street Council (LWSC) recently hosted an event at Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics to help students prepare for job searching and network with alumni. The Financial Services Forum featured a variety of events for students and alumni.
Jeffrey Bosland ’88, the managing director and co-head of the American Sales and Marketing Group at J.P. Morgan, gave the forum’s keynote address. He advised graduates: “Financial services is a very rewarding industry, but you have to really want to do it. [. . .] You will be working hard and sometimes putting in long days so it’s important to do what you really enjoy”.
The event also featured a Young Alumni Panel, where recent graduates encouraged students to reach out to Lehigh’s alumni network for job opportunities. After the panel, students had the opportunity to go to smaller sessions on different divisions of the financial sector: wealth management, asset management, research, sales and trading, investment banking, or real estate. Each session was led by three or four alumni speakers with expertise in the field discussing what to expect from careers in their sector of financial services.
The Lehigh Wall Street Council was founded by Michael Connor ’80, ‘14P and Andrew Fife ’85 more than a decade ago to provide career and business opportunities to Lehigh alumni and networking and guidance to Lehigh students in the financial sector. The group also provides alumni the chance to come back to Lehigh. The LWSC now has over 1,800 members, and Fife is the president. The group sponsors activities year-round including on-campus seminars and events in New York City.
This year marked the seventh year of the LWSC Financial Services Forum. Nearly 200 students attended the event this year, making this year’s forum the LWSC’s best attended event.
Deloitte CEO to Speak at Rutgers CEO Lecture Series
Deloitte CEO Gregory Weaver will speak at Rutgers Business School Newark/New Brunswick today, October 28, as part of Rutgers’ CEO Lecture Series. Weaver is a 1975 alumnus of the Rutgers MBA in professional accounting. His company, Deloitte & Touche, is an auditing, accounting, and risk advisory subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. He will speak about professional excellence.
In an interview with Rutgers before his appearance, Weaver had a crucial piece of advice for young business people: “Taking advantage of opportunities is very important. Often, you don’t recognize what opportunity really is. I know my inclination was to generally say no to things that actually had the biggest impact on my career.”
Rutgers established the CEO Lecture Series to allow students to encounter the ideas of leading chief executive officers and their insights about business. Many of the event’s previous speakers have been alumni of Rutgers. Past speakers include Anne Whitaker, the leader of North American business for the pharmaceutical giant Sonofi-Aventis, and Sheri McCoy, the former Johnson & Johnson executive who is now the CEO of Avon. Earlier this year, the president of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, Keith Banks, spoke as part of the series.
The CEO Lecture Series is only open to Rutgers students, faculty, staff, alumni, and board members. However, if you don’t fall into any of those categories, don’t be too disappointed–the CEO Lecture Series is an ongoing series and you may get the opportunity to participate one day. . .as a Rutgers MBA student!
Executive MBA
Georgetown University Executive MBA Program Structure
The Georgetown University Executive MBA at the McDonough School of Business is characterized by two international and two domestic residencies. Executive MBA classes are taught in cohorts designed to strengthen interpersonal relationships and sharpen business acumen. The program begins in August and spans 20 months, culminating with the Global Capstone Residency, during which teams of students travel the world to study the impact of globalization at the national, industry, and firm levels. Afterward, the teams present their findings during a Capstone Weekend that highlights the school’s themes of globalization, collaboration, and integration of knowledge.
Curriculum
The intensive 20-month course of study includes classes held on Fridays and Saturdays of alternating weekends, as well as four week-long residencies that provide immersion in real-world business projects. Coursework focuses on core business disciplines including Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Strategy.
All students enrolled in the Georgetown University Executive MBA Program complete four integrative projects, or residencies, in addition to their core and elective coursework. Residencies include team-based experiences that immerse students in simulated and real-world business environments to gain practical experience.
The opening residency provides an introduction to the program with an in-depth live case experience focused on a specific industry, such as the wireless services industry. A high-level view of finance, marketing, strategy, and other fundamental business areas is applied to global companies facing real challenges in today’s competitive international marketplace.
The second residency allows students to practice the art of creating and pitching a business plan for an entrepreneurial initiative. With coaching from a faculty advisor, teams of students develop an idea for a new business or a new venture within an existing business. The experience culminates in a Business Plan Competition, during which teams deliver presentations to a panel of judges including successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and faculty.
The penultimate residency is an international project, in which student consulting teams work together to solve a pressing business problem facing foreign organizations or Fortune 500 companies with operations overseas. At the end of the course, the cohort travels abroad to the client’s’ facilities to complete their projects and present recommendations to the senior leadership of the companies and organizations. Recent global residency locations have included: Dubai/UAE; Istanbul, Turkey; New Delhi, India; and Shanghai, China.
Finally, student teams focus on the impact of globalization on a particular country/region, industry, and firm abroad. With the guidance of a faculty advisor, each team conducts an international field visit for research and makes a final presentation of findings to the Georgetown community.
Georgetown Executive MBA Rankings
• U.S. News & World Report: 42
• The Economist: 10
Class Profile
The average class size in the EMBA program is 57. , Twenty-six percent of students are of minority status. Just over 40 percent of the class is comprised of female students. Students in the program are, on average, 38-years old and have over 14 years of professional work experience.
Career Statistics
Georgetown EMBAs earn an average annual salary of $186,000 upon graduation. About 26 percent earned an average salary increase after graduating, and 28 percent earned a promotion while attending the program
Tuition, Scholarships, and Financial Aid
The tuition cost for the Georgetown McDonough Executive MBA program is $144,600. This includes tuition, specified meals during class weekends, and accommodations at off-site and international residencies, consulting project expenses, international travel insurance, and course materials.
The Office of Student Financial Services attempts to assist financially eligible applicants to meet their educational and living costs. All United States citizens and permanent residents of the United States may be considered for federally funded programs.
Most student loans are based on either financial need or creditworthiness and are available only to US citizens and permanent residents. Georgetown McDonough students commonly use the Federal Stafford Loan Program, Alternative Education Loans, and the ACCESS Loan Program. Private loans may also be available.
Admissions
Applicants to the Georgetown University Executive MBA Program are required to hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in the United States or the equivalent from an international college or university.
Additionally, applicants to the Georgetown McDonough Executive MBA Program must possess a minimum of eight years of work experience and are required to submit for review a resume, a statement of purpose, two letters of recommendation, a letter of support from their current employer, and official transcripts from all academic course work. Applicants must submit a completed application, along with a nonrefundable $175 application fee. International non-native English speaking applicants must submit official TOEFL or IELTS scores. EMBA applicants are also required to interview with a member of the Admissions Committee.
The Georgetown University Executive MBA program operates on a rolling admissions basis. Applicants may submit their admissions materials at any time before the final deadline. Those who submit a complete application will be considered for a personal interview.
Fall 2022 Georgetown Executive MBA Deadlines
Application Deadlines For Fall 2022
| Round | Date |
|---|---|
| Round 1 | September 15, 2021 |
| Round 2 | October 15, 2021 |
| Round 3 | November 15, 2021 |
| Round 4 | December 10, 2021 |
| Round 5 | January 15, 2022 |
| Round 6 | February 15, 2022 |
| Round 7 | March 15, 2022 |
| Round 8 | April 15, 2022 |
| Round 9 | May 15, 2022 |
| Round 10 | June 15, 2022 |
Georgetown Executive MBA FAQs
How has the university coped with the current pandemic?
Spring 2021 will be a combo of virtual and in-person instruction to create a hybrid structure.
What graduate programs are offered at the university?
Students may achieve their MBA (part-time, full-time and executive options are available) as well as their Master’s in Management, MS in Business Analytics, MS in Finance, Master of Arts in International Business and Policy, and an Executive Masters in Leadership.
What resources are available to students upon graduation?
The MBA Career Center, Executive Career Management services, and network of 190,000 global alumni are assets to those graduating from the EMBA program.
