McDonough GEMBAs Close Out Their Journeys
It’s time to wish the best of luck to the forty-two students from 14 countries who placed a capstone on of their 14-month journey in the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) program on Saturday, July 26. Each student graduating from the program received a diploma from Georgetown and Spain’s ESADE.
Forged from a partnership between Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and Walsh School of Foreign Service, and ESADE Business School, the GEMBA program was founded in 2009. A top-ranked program, McDonough and ESADE’s GMBA program focuses on the key areas of strategy, leadership, management, and policy. As part of the program, students were immersed in six two-week residences on four continents, in countries that included Brazil, India, China, and Spain.
“The world is getting smaller and smaller and you really need to know what is going on in order to compete at a global level,” said new GEMBA graduate Parker Laite, III, of Camden, Maine, senior program analyst with the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
One of the special things about the program is diverisity—this year’s graduates came to the program from varied backgrounds, including from outside the business world.
“I came from an engineering background, so all the MBA concepts were new to me,” said Yousef Al-Kaabi, manager in the IT project management office of the Sidera Medical and Research Center of the Qatar Foundation. “This really has been a life-changing experience for me.”
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