Georgetown Launches New MBA Certificate in Consumer Analytics and Insights
In response to overwhelming demand by students and recruiters, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business launched a new MBA Certificate in Consumer Analytics and Insights. The certificate delves deep into marketing data and analytics to provide MBA students with the necessary skills needed to drill down into consumer behavior and marketing practice through data. Continue reading…
Georgetown Launches Implicit Bias Training Program for MBA Students
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business puts a premium on the ethical and social dimensions of business, both in terms of its curriculum and its expectations of MBAs. The Graduate Women in Business (GWIB) student club seeks actively to uphold McDonough’s attitude toward social responsibility. In 2017, GWIB announced the launch of its implicit bias training program.
The pilot program, which was developed as a collaboration with the MBA Program Office, seeks to increase awareness of implicit bias in the workplace and to integrate training against it as part of the MBA student experience. It helps participants looks at how implicit bias unconsciously affects actions and decisions related to hiring and promotion practices, client services, and organizational culture.
The goal of the new program is to offer more comprehensive training than those typically offered by corporate implicit bias programs.
GWIB researched curricula, trainers, and other details for more nine months before inviting Bryant Marks, a seasoned implicit bias trainer and the lead trainer at the National Training and Education Institute, to facilitate the pilot. Marks also has experience as an associate professor of psychology at Morehouse College and as the former senior advisor to the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
During its first semester the training program attracted 30 participants, including students, faculty, and administrators. Participants reported that the training was “relatable” and of the data Marks presented, “some were a revelation.”
According to Kerry Pace, associate dean of MBA programs, implicit bias training is absolutely vital for students. She elaborated in a press release that this type of training “better prepares students for successful careers as principled business leaders and continues to improve our amazing community. By spending time reflecting on and acknowledging our own biases, we are following our Jesuit heritage of women and men in service to others and to ourselves.”
To learn more about the new program as well as other social justice avenues to explore at Georgetown McDonough, read the original press release.
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Georgetown McDonough Entrepreneurs Win Big in Inaugural Pitch Contest
Last month, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business held its inaugural Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize “Bark Tank” Pitch Competition, named in honor of the school’s mascot, the bulldog. Put together by a team of expert entrepreneurs at the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, the goal of the competition was to support students and alumni in their startup ventures. Overall, nearly a dozen teams and individuals competed for $100,000 in prize money.
In alignment with Georgetown’s Jesuit values, the pitch competition highlighted business ventures that focused on problems in the world around them. Ultimately, the prize money was intended to bring awareness to innovative technology and business ideas that address a social issue by doing good.
“It is wonderful to watch the community rally around ‘StartupNation,’” Ted Leonsis—the founder, majority owner, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment—said in a press release from the university. “It has been tremendous to watch these entrepreneurs exhibit passion to tackle these issues. Entrepreneurship allows Georgetown University to stand atop of what they are already doing, which is to develop the whole person. We have the opportunity to become an institution where people not only get an education but also have a higher calling.”
The ultimate winner of the “Bark Tank” pitch competition was Hatch, a startup launching soon in Washington DC, that seeks to provide co-working and child care solutions for working parents. Founded by J.P. Coakley (MBA ’18) and Kelsey Lents (MBA ’18), Hatch won $30,000 at the competition, which will enable it to open its first location.
The Leonsis Prize underscores the student experience at Georgetown University in how the student, faculty, and alumni communities continuously help each other through scholarship, mentorship, and networking,” said Lents. “This support has impressed and motivated us to launch our business. We are excited to have won the Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize, which will be instrumental in helping us to secure the lease and letter of credit required to open the first location of Hatch.”
Other prize recipients included ClassPulse, a professional development tool that allows professors to collect student feedback in real time. Founded by Claudia Recchi (B ’17), ClassPulse won $25,000. The third-place prize went to Cusp 365, an app that helps college women live a more healthy life. Founded by Jaclyn DiGregorio (B ’17), it received $15,000. Another five ventures, Campus Sherpa, Edible Finance, Foublie, Galapagos Strategy, and Qoral Health, each won $5,000 in prize money.
Overall, the winners were chosen based on scores by a panel of judges including CEOs, founders, and chairmen from leading companies in the area.
To learn more, visit the website or watch the video from the contest below.
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Georgetown Jumps in Newest Financial Times Global MBA Ranking
Georgetown was one of the bigger winners after the Financial Times unveiled their newest Global MBA Rankings, with the McDonough School of Business earning 16th place in the U.S. and 30th in the world, up from 18th and 40th last year.
To create their rankings, FT evaluated each qualifying MBA program across a wide range of criteria. Much of the data is gathered from alumni and university surveys. According to McDonough, this year’s survey was completed by the class of 2014, which was the first cohort to complete the new school’s new MBA curriculum.
“As a school that prides itself on innovation and excellence, we are pleased to continue climbing in the Financial Times MBA ranking,” said Prashant Malaviya, senior associate dean for MBA programs. “At McDonough, we prepare our students to be principled, global-ready leaders, and we are happy to be recognized by a ranking that values international experiences, career success, and faculty scholarship.”
In addition to alumni data, FT takes the international character and diversity of the school into account for their list. McDonough’s 42-place jump in the International Experience Rank (4th in the U.S.) contributed to high marks in those criteria, as did the required Global Business Experience consulting project and the growing number of international career treks. The school’s faculty research rank is now 19th in the world, up 10 places from last year.
The Financial Times publishes seven rankings annually, relating to MBA, EMBA, Master in Finance, Master in Management programs and Online MBA programs, as well as non-degree executive education courses. They also issue a separate ranking of top European Business Schools. Check out FT’s interactive rankings tables to search for a school of interest, sort by selected criteria and filter by location.
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NBMBAA Announces Georegtown McDonough Partnership
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has announced a new partnership with the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) as part of the first installment of the NBMBAA Collegiate Partnership Program. According to a press release, the program aims to increase awareness and facilitate access to graduate and business education programs in professional fields across the country. Continue reading…
McDonough Professor Douglas McCabe Honored With New Award
Georgetown Professor Douglas McCabe of the McDonough School of Business was recently honored with the “Best Paper Award” at the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Society for Competitiveness in Washington DC. This year’s conference theme was “Breaking Down Barriers to Competitiveness: A Path Forward.”
McCabe’s paper was titled “Conflict Resolution and Organizational Justice in the Workplace—The Evidence Based Research” and discussed current evidence-based research on how employees can achieve justice, equity, and voice within organizations.
“Conflict and its resolution play a critical role in organizations,” McCabe said. “A growing proportion of companies and corporations have turned to various dispute resolution procedures to resolve the complaints and grievances of their employees within the organizational behavior context.”
McCabe’s work has already become more than just research, having been put into practice at progressive firms. “Many of these quality and legitimate systems were put into place based upon the policy recommendations of my stream of research, as well as the research of other human resource management scholars,” he said.
This was the fourth Best Paper Award McCabe has earned during his career at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. The professor of management has worked at McDonough since 2013, teaching EMBA and management classes. Additional awards earned by McCabe include:
- Recipient of the Award for the Best Conceptual Research Paper at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the American Society for Competitiveness
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Fourth Annual World Business Congress of the International Management Development Association
- Recipient of the Best Professor Award of the inaugural class of the Executive Master’s in Leadership/District of Columbia Public School Principals at the McDonough School of Business
- Recipient of the Excellence in Education Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association
- Twice Recipient of the Joseph F. LeMoine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence of the McDonough School of Business
- Twice the Recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Emerald Literarti Network of the Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Additionally
- Recipient of the Certificate of Recognition from the National Office of The Phi Beta Kappa Society
McCabe earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, his M.S. from Loyola University of Chicago, and his B.A. magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from Marquette University. Along with his written work in numerous academic refereed journal articles, papers, monographs, and speeches, he is also an active domestic and international management consultant.
