Apple’s Tim Cook Headlines GWSB Commencement Speaker Schedule
Commencement at George Washington University takes place over the entire course of this week before coming to its conclusion on Sunday, May 17. Those receiving their MBAs from the GW School of Business have an impressive array of talented and influential people set to speak to them during the ceremonies.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the university-wide commencement speaker. Once named to Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and the Financial Times’ Person of the Year for 2014, Cook joined Apple in 1998. He served as the company’s chief operating officer before being named Steve Jobs’ successor as CEO. Cook earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University and an MBA from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar. Continue reading…
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…
Popularity of Sustainable Business MBA Grows
Many MBA programs now offer concentrations and curriculum that focus on sustainable business. Corporations are now required to be more environmentally conscious than ever before. A sustainable business MBA can help professionals gain the knowledge that is needed to operate and create successful environmentally conscious businesses. According to thebestschools.org, “The MBA in Sustainability degree equips business professionals to help companies and organizations achieve profitability while maintaining environmental responsibility.”
These MBA programs, often called “Green MBAs,” teach students the skills necessary for earning profits through methods that reduce harm to the environment and society. Not only do these programs help students learn how to run environmentally sustainable businesses, but many also teach corporate social responsibility.
The Sustainable Business Institute explains that corporate sustainability is important because, “private and public business choices enormously impact the quality of life in our communities.” The Institute also explains that, “Effectively managing our business footprint addresses current market dynamics while ensuring a better quality of life for future generations. The bottom line is sustainable business practices make good business sense. Corporate sustainability offers a compelling return on investment by driving innovation, managing risk, and improving stakeholder relations.”
Earning the MBA Becomes More Family Friendly
Women have always faced certain biases when it comes to business. Pay gaps, maternity leave and the overall balance of work and family life have limited women to positions that are available to them. However, over the last few years the number of women in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies and in political office has increased. According to the Pew Research Center, “Women have made inroads in this area slowly over time.”
Twenty years ago, there were no female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Now, women make up 5 percent of CEOs in the country’s Fortune 500 companies, 17 percent of the corporate board members among Fortune 500 companies and there are now 104 women who serve as members of Congress, according to the Pew Center. The number of state legislators who are women has also risen from 4.5 percent in 1971 to 24.2 percent in 2015.
The corporate and political worlds are not the only places where women are beginning to see changes. Colleges and Universities are now seeing more women enrolled in MBA programs than ever before. According to Pew, in 2013 women earned 36 percent of MBAs. Specifically, the Sloan School of Management at MIT welcomed the largest class of women in the school’s history in 2014. The incoming class of MBA students at Sloan in the Fall of 2014 was 40 percent female, up from 33 percent from the last year.
Davis MBA Student Shares Experience
Amber Lewis is a full-time MBA student at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. She will graduate this spring from the program. Lewis explains that she enjoys attending UC Davis for her MBA for three main reasons. The first is the caliber of students in the program. The median GMAT scores and GPA earned by students in the Full-Time MBA program at Davis are 690 and 3.18. The second reason why she enjoys the program is the community that is created among the students and the faculty. The third reason is the quality of education that she has received. “I know that it will progress my career beyond my imagination,” Lewis said
In regards to her educational experience at Davis, Lewis specifically comments on the consulting project that students have to complete. Students work with a company to serve as consultants on projects that will help to students to hone their business management skills that they have learned in the program. “It is an opportunity that I would not necessarily have gotten at another school, but because of our relationship with the community, the school was able to facilitate that, which is a phenomenal opportunity to apply my classroom learning outside of the classroom,” Lewis said.
Zicklin Partners with Israeli School for Dual MBA Program
The Zicklin School of Business has partnered with the College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) in Israel to launch a new dual MBA program. Students in this program will receive an American MBA from Zicklin and an Israeli degree from the College of Management Academic Studies. COMAS is the first non-subsidized, non-profit academic institution in Israel to be recognized and certified by the Council for Higher Education. The college has grown to be the largest college in Israel.
The program will begin in October 2015. It will be a 15 month long program that will span across four semesters. Three semesters of the dual MBA program will be delivered on the College of Management Academic Studies campus in Israel. Classes in Israel will be held in a half-day format twice a week. The program will also feature an intensive summer semester at the Zicklin School of Business campus in New York City. Classes in New York will be held five days a week over four weeks.
