How to Turn an MBA into a Career with Tesla
Tesla, Inc. founder and the tech entrepreneur world’s newest shining beacon Elon Musk, a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, once pessimistically said, “As much as possible, avoid hiring MBA’s. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies … our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.” Continue reading…
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…
Kings of the North: Should You Get a Part-Time MBA in Chicago or Toronto?
In many ways, Chicago and Toronto are very similar world class cities: Both are situated on a Great Lake, host an “Original Six” hockey team, and both metros suffer from “second city” inferiority complexes. Both metros also have plenty of competitive business school options for professionals who want to earn an MBA. Continue reading…
This Notre Dame Professor Was Named The World’s Leading Entrepreneur Expert
Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business professor Dean Shepherd was recently recognized as the leading scholar in entrepreneurship research, according to a recent study published in Journal of Small Business Management.
“Contributing Forces in Entrepreneurship Research: A Global Citation Analysis“—co-authored by Chang Xu of Renmin University, Yining Chen of Western Kentucky University, Ann Fung of University of Washington and Kam C. Chan of Western Kentucky University—concluded that Shepherd contributed to entrepreneurship research more than any other academic figure.
The study used a sample of more than 2,000 entrepreneurship articles published in leading journals between 2002 and 2013. Shepherd was identified as both the most prolific author with 54 total articles and the most impactful, as measured by a weighted normalized citation count.
Entrepreneurship is a relatively new field of research, and therefore presents “as a unique opportunity for a wider range of institutions and scholars to collaborate and develop expertise and leadership research,” according to the study.
With that being said, Shepherd has had his work published in top entrepreneurship, general management, strategic management, operations management, and psychology journals and has written or edited more than 20 books.
One of his more recent papers is titled “The Surprising Duality of Jugaad: Low Firm Growth and High Inclusive Growth” and explores entrepreneurship in resource-poor environments. According to a press release, “jugaad” is a Hindi word that means finding a low-cost, intelligent solution to a problem by thinking constructively and differently about innovation and strategy. The paper was published in the Journal of Management Studies.
Shepherd is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. He received his doctorate and MBA from Bond University in Australia.
Read “Contributing Forces in Entrepreneurship Research: A Global Citation Analysis” from the September edition of the Journal of Small Business Management and check out his 2014 Ted Talk “How Do We Learn From Failure?” below.
How To Join The Supply Chain Management Job Revolution in San Francisco
Like blockchain, the phrase supply chain management has been retconned into an inexact wallpaper of business jargon. But it doesn’t change the fact that supply chain managers (SCMs) are in higher demand than ever.
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.
