London Business School Adds MFA Program
London Business School announced that they will be adding a Masters in Financial Analysis to their prestigious financial program, according to a recent press release from the school. The program is designed for top graduates with backgrounds in quantitative studies who have recently graduated with less than one year of work experience. The first students will begin the program in September 2016. Continue reading…
Cameron Alumna New President of Houston Junior League
Mimi Foerster, received her MBA in ’03 from University of St. Thomas Cameron School of Business. After graduating, she was quickly employed as a financial adviser at UBS, a Swiss financial services company. Foerster shared with UST campus news that her position at UBS was her dream job– the ultimate melding of the two things she is passionate about: finance and people. Continue reading…
Stanford MBA Elective Helps Students Learn Broad Impact of Finance
A new elective course for the MBA program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business helps students to learn more about the broad implications of finance. Anat Admati teaches the Finance and Society elective course. She is a well-known critic of current banking regulations. In her class, she helps students learn to understand and critically analyze the economic and human implications of finance. For the class, Admati teaches by bringing together different expert viewpoints on banking, law, accounting, politics, financial regulation and the media.
There is no math taught in the class, but the main principles and theories are reviewed for discussions. Readings from the course are from the professor’s book “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It” as well as documents from the Federal Reserve, media stories, guest essays and news commentary. For MBA students, Admati brings guest speakers to help to enrich the course with real-world perspectives and insights into the industry and the policy issues.
Morgan Stanley CEO Talks Shop With McDonough Students
It’s not every day that you get to have the CEO of a huge corporation give you business advice, but nearly 200 Georgetown McDonough students were granted that opportunity when James Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, addressed them on February 5.
For a company like Morgan Stanley that receives more than 100,000 resumes a year, standing out can come down to finding the area of the company that that is the best fit, but interestingly enough many students present had already accepted full-time positions and internships at the company. Continue reading…
McDonough Prof. Appointed to MCL Panel
Lynn Doran, Professor at the McDonough School of Business, has been appointed as one of the 15 faculty panelist for discussing business education the 2015 Measuring College Learning (MCL) Project. The MCL is bringing together faculty from six critical fields of study — biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology — to reach consensus on how schools can effectively measure their students’ achievement. Continue reading…
Booth’s Raghuram Rajan named Euromoney’s Central Bank Fund Governor of the Year
Raghuram Rajan, Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Reserve Bank of India Governor, has been named Euromoney’s Central Bank Fund Governor of the Year for 2014. Rajan assumed the role as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India over a year ago in September 2013. Continue reading…
