Exploring Entrepreneurship Opportunities for MBAs
While ten years ago MBA programs were mostly focused on helping applicants achieve their dream career in corporate America, that’s no longer the case. Many MBA graduates are starting to become less interested in traditional jobs and more interested in starting their own companies. In fact, a recent study of over 30,000 Wharton MBA graduates showed that more than seven percent of 2013 grads started their own companies, five times as many as in 2007. And Stanford reported a record 16 percent of its MBA graduates launching startups in 2012. This clear shift in graduate desires has also caused a change in the focus of many business schools. Continue reading…
Global MBA: Gaining World Experience
Every year, more businesses decide to expand their markets in to new countries. Business leaders and managers must be prepared to compete in the new foreign markets. To be prepared to become a successful global business leader, many people decide to pursue a Global or International MBA. This type of MBA program can help you to learn the skills that are needed to successfully move your company in to new markets and gain the knowledge of economies in different countries as well as government practices and business related laws.
Global and International MBA programs typically require students to complete a global residency during the program. This is a time when students will travel to a different country or region, typically one with new emerging markets, to study for a short period of time. Some programs also give students the opportunity to visit more than one country or region during the program. Students learn and experience the culture of the area they are residing in as well as the economy and government of the country they are in.
Georgetown MBAs Honored at McDonough Entrepalooza
The McDonough School of Business celebrated the best, innovative business ideas dreamt up by students at the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative’s Entrepalooza. At the competition, nine student teams (either on the social track or the commercial track) pitched their plans to a panel of 21 judges. Continue reading…
Team of McDonough MBAs Win Big at VCIC Finals
Georgetown McDonough MBAs Jordan Edelman, Eric Ellsworth, Amir Kabir, Ben Shopneck, and Coral Taylor took home the top prize at the global finals of the 2015 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), the school’s second title in the past three years. Seventy business schools from across the globe converged onto the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where a panel of venture capitalists judged each team based on how well they analyzed startup companies, interviewed entrepreneurs, structured a deal, and negotiated terms. Continue reading…
McDonough School and Bipartisan Policy Center Partner Up
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) have forged a partnership between the school’s Business, Society, and Public Policy Initiative resulting in cooperative projects and conferences. According to a press release on the university website, “scholars representative of both will work together to establish business principles and practices that could be applied within agencies of the federal government to make them more efficient and effective.” Continue reading…
McDonough Professor Critiques BitCoin
Bitcoin, the internet’s first decentralized digital currency and the largest of its kind in terms of total market value, was recently examined at the McDonough School of Business. While Bitcoin is still shrouded in mystery for some, the new currency has made its way into business schools as certain prominent professors’ are beginning to open up on their thoughts on the currency.
