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2021 SPRING LEADERSHIP MEETING
WOMEN IN BUSINESS: CELEBRATING MILESTONES AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Friday, March 19, 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS AGENDA
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BOARD OF ADVISORS MEMBERS
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PARENTS ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
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SCHOOL UPDATE
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Supporting our McDonough Community
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Reflecting our Georgetown Expertise and Identity
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Guided by our Jesuit Values
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Innovation
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Diversity
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Faculty Accomplishments
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New Faculty
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School Accomplishments
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Rankings
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Significant Events
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AGENDA
2021 SPRING LEADERSHIP MEETING
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 12:00-12:05 P.M.
A WELCOME MESSAGE Mike Psaros, vice chair of the Board of Advisors, will open the meeting with introductory remarks.
12:05-12:25 P.M.
UPDATES FROM THE SCHOOL Paul Almeida, dean, William R. Berkley Chair, and professor of strategy, will provide updates from the school, outlining operations for the remainder of the spring semester and planning for the summer and fall. Patricia Grant, senior associate dean, will share an update from the Undergraduate Program, and Rebecca Hamilton, senior associate dean of faculty affairs and professor of marketing, will review changes to the school’s mission statement. Grant and Hamilton also will share insights about women in business from their perspectives as a senior administrator and a faculty member.
12:25-1:25 P.M.
A HISTORY OF WOMEN AT MCDONOUGH Michael O’Leary, senior associate dean of Custom Executive Education, will introduce the school’s new book, 60 Years of Alumnae: Memories, Milestones, and Momentum, highlighting the role alumnae throughout the decades have played in Georgetown’s history and in shaping the business world. We also will share the perspectives of student authors who helped create the book and discover what they learned during this process. Breakout groups will discuss how Georgetown McDonough will continue to move forward for women and gender equity. We will conclude with a conversation between Cathy Tinsley, Raffini Family Professor of Management, and Ann Sarnoff, vice chair of the Board of Advisors, who will address gender equity and affecting change at the organizational level.
1:25-1:30 P.M.
CLOSING REMARKS Dennis Quinn, vice dean and Powers Professor in International Business, will deliver closing remarks.
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BOARD OF ADVISORS MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR Robert H. Steers (B’75, P’06, P’08, P’10) VICE CHAIRS Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff (B’83, P’17) † Michael G. Psaros (B’89, P’21) † PARENTS ADVISORY COUNCIL CHAIRS Abby Adams (C’83, P’16, P’21) Patrick Adams (B’81, P’16, P’21)
Joseph V. Amato (B’84, P’13, P’17, P’19) ‡ William D. Anderson, Jr. (B’88, JD’94, P’16, P’23)
Jerry Longarzo (B’84, JD’87, P’22)
Dewey John Awad II (MBA’96)
Claudio Macchetto (MBA’96, P’23)
Joseph Baratta (B’93) †
John McNamara (B’87, P’22)
Natalie Barth (B’96)
Robert Bernard Nolan Jr. (B’74, P’01, P’05, P’14)
Justin Berman (B’99) Timothy Warren Billings (B’95) Lawrence R. Botel (B’88, P’23) Michael Brown (B’94) Greg Byrnes (MBA/JD’94) Paolo Cicchine (B’94) Mohammed G. Dewji (B’98) Michele Docharty (B’89)
John “Hap” J. Fauth IV (B’67 P’06, P’15, P’16)
William Paul Doucas, Sr. (B’82, P’11, P’15)
W. Robert Berkley, Jr. (B’95) † Peter N. Crnkovich (B’78, P’11, P’13) ‡
Zachary Leonsis (MBA’15)
Ajay Arora (P’18)
CHAIR EMERITUS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Laurie Hodges Lapeyre (B’83, P’15, P’17) † ‡
Wayne Clarke Plewniak (MBA’85, P’20) Jeffrey Powers (B’81, P’06, P’21) Thomas Pryma (B’95) Marc Puntus (B’89) Saleh Romeih (B’88, P’22) John Roy (MBA’85) Charles Sansbury (B’89, P’21, P’22) Dasha Smith (B’95) ‡ Eric Sondag (B’98)
Glenn Eisen (B’87)
Joe Verbrugge (MBA’97, P’17, P’24)
Karim El-Solh (MBA’91)
Abbas F. “Eddy” Zuaiter (B’89, P’21) ‡
Ann Gillin Lefever (B’86) Farah Gokal-Ghazzawi (B’95, P’23) Dottie Shea Hobin (B’97, P’24)
Michael R. Fisher (B’80, P’12, P’13, P’18)
David M. Hooper (B’89)
Robert J. Flanagan (B’78, P’10, P’15, P’17)
Yongsoo Huh (B’94)
Jonathan R. Lynch (B’88) ‡
Lew “Jay” Jacobs (MBA’98)
Gil Ashley Tenzer (B’84, P’17, P’21) ‡
Haubert John Pierre “JP” Jolly (B’97, P’23)
Theodore Kyriakou (B’95)
Peter Jeremy Hornick (B’90, P’21) Sarkis Izmirlian (B’94)
Doug Knopper (MBA’95)
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† Denotes Member, Georgetown University Board of Directors ‡ Denotes Member, Georgetown University Board of Regents
PARENTS ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRS Abby Adams (C’83, P’16, P’21) Patrick Adams (B’81, P’16, P’21)
Durga Bobba (MBA’96, P’23) Geetika Bobba (P’23) Teresa Dyke (P’21) Wade Dyke (P’21) Ellen Goodwin (P’22)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Andrew Karp (C’91, P’24)
Andy Blocker (EMBA’02, P’21)
Lauren Karp (P’24)
Glay Blocker (P’21)
Diana Longarzo (P’22)
Donald Everett (P’19, P’22)
Jerry Longarzo (B’84, JD’87, P’22)
Jill M. Everett (P’19, P’22)
Diane Palmieri (P’22)
Dian Fini (P’19, P’22) Mario Fini (P’19, P’22) Mary Gay (P’20, P’23) William R. Gay (P’20, P’23)
Paul Palmieri (P’22) Kirk Pohmer (P’22) Alejandra Poupel (P’23, P’24) Maxime Poupel (P’23, P’24) Akram Safa (P’22)
John Hock (P’21, P’23)
Anne Marie Safa (P’22)
Mary E. Hock (P’21, P’23)
Paul Simpson (I’89, P’21)
Guillermo Pla (P’20, P’21, P’24)
Rebekah Simpson (C’88, P’21)
Douglas Stewart (P’22)
Ravi Sindhwani (P’22)
Marcella Stewart (P’22)
Sue Sindhwani (P’22)
Monica Zobel de Ayala (P’20, P’21, P’24)
C. Hasan Umur (P’22) Leyla Umur (P’22) Edward Woo (P’24) Irene Woo (P’24)
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
DEAR BOARD OF ADVISORS AND PARENTS ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS, I hope you and your families are healthy and well. As I wrote last week, we are pleased to hear that our Board Chair, Bob Steers, is on the path to recovery. We’re grateful as always for his leadership, and we look forward to toasting to him in person when the situation allows. At McDonough, we continue our efforts around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and our spring meeting will include updates from the co-chairs of our DEI Standing Committee, Patricia Grant and Michael O’Leary. We are making great progress, and at the same time we are aware of the long and winding road ahead. As we move forward, we hope to celebrate the milestones along the way. We are pleased to publish 60 Years of Alumnae: Memories, Milestones, and Momentum, which honors the 60th anniversary of Georgetown McDonough’s first female graduate and the generations of women who followed in her footsteps. I hope you have been able to see in your advance digital copy how the personal narratives of our alumnae can be woven together to show both the tremendous strides the business world has made toward women’s equality and the many ways we can still make positive change for the future. I am grateful to the many alumnae who participated in the book project, which was led by Michael O’Leary and a team of students, with editing and publishing assistance from our Office of Marketing and Communications. At our meeting, you will hear directly from the student authors about what they learned through this project, as well as from our own Ann Sarnoff, who was kind enough to pen the forward for the book in addition to being interviewed. We also hope to set the stage for a more in-depth discussion this fall about DEI, exploring ways to make our own community more inclusive while also preparing our Hoyas to make a broader impact in their own personal and professional lives. As always, I am grateful to each of you for your support as we continue to ask the difficult questions and find ways to implement meaningful change. Together, we continue to live our values and strengthen our community.
Sincerely,
Paul Almeida Dean and William R. Berkley Chair Professor of Strategy
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SCHOOL UPDATE SUPPORTING OUR MCDONOUGH COMMUNIT Y The Undergraduate Program Office launched the McDonough Initiative on Student Formation and Well-Being to engage and encourage spiritual, physical, and intellectual growth across students’ entire experience of wellness. The McDonough Undergraduate Career Development Center, in partnership with McDonough’s Office of Alumni Relations, successfully completed its third year of Host a Hoya — with record-breaking participation of over 200 matches between alumni and students. The one-day job shadow experience allows McDonough undergraduate students to experience a day-in-thelife of alumni. This micro-mentoring opportunity is carried out during winter break and is available to all McDonough students as a way to learn more about a career that interests them. The MBA program launched a new mentorship program for full-time students this fall that pairs full-time students with alumni who guide them through their whole-life experiences, from navigating the MBA to issues they will face in the workplace. The MBA team, working with McDonough’s Office of Alumni Relations and Career Services, was able to match all 133 students who signed up for the program with an alumni mentor. The program is an initiative of the MBA Alumni Advisory Council.
REFLECTING OUR GEORGETOWN EXPERTISE AND IDENTIT Y Students in the first class enrolled in the M.S. in Business Analytics program at the McDonough School of Business began their studies in January, officially launching the new online degree that is focused on driving valuebased decisions by combining leadingedge analytics and critical business skills.
GUIDED BY OUR JESUIT VALUES Georgetown McDonough’s Master of Science in Management (MiM) Service Committee raised $1,000 in less than one hour during its inaugural service auction. Proceeds went toward the Loveland Foundation’s Therapy Fund, an organization that prioritizes opportunity, validation, and healing for communities of color, with a particular focus on Black women and girls.
M.A. in International Business and Policy students began their Social Action Projects last fall. Working in small teams, students collaborated with a number of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to tackle international business issues, including the African Development Bank (Small Solar Market Place in Sub-Saharan Africa); the Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center (Global Data Governance); the Environmental Defense Fund (Deforestation and Global Cocoa Industry-Grower Country Strategies; and the World Bank (Haiti Comprehensive Special Economic Zone Development Plan).
INNOVATION The Steers Center for Global Real Estate announced the launch of the Steers ESG Solutions Group, thanks to a $3.2 million gift from Robert (B’75, P’06, P’08, P’10) and Lauren Steers (P’06, P’08, P’10). The Steers Center will drive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research conducted by the group
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into both curricular and co-curricular learning activities for its undergraduate and MBA students. The MBA program launched the MBA Advanced Access Program (MAAP) for students seeking to enroll in a future MBA class at McDonough. MAAP allows those in their final year of undergraduate or graduate school who have not previously had professional full-time work experience to apply for deferred enrollment to the Full-time MBA at Georgetown McDonough. By applying through this program, students can secure a place in the class two years out from the time they apply, with the option to extend to three or four years. The Georgetown Venture Lab launched the Georgetown Startup Accelerator, a remote, nine-week that brings together 12 early-stage startup companies founded by Georgetown University alumni, providing access to the Venture Lab’s experienced mentors, peers, and top subject matter experts to accelerate their business
DIVERSIT Y Georgetown University is the second-best university in graduating women who lead venture capital firms, according to a study by Different Funds. This accomplishment is remarkable considering that venture capital is typically dominated by males, with less than 10% representation by women. Last fall, Dan McMahon (MBA’21), Katherine Jo (MBA’21), Alex Williams (MBA’21), and Julia Liedel (MBA’21) won first place at the national 2020 Reaching Out MBA Conference case competition for LGBTQ+ business students. The case examined meaningful ways to build a more inclusive ecosystem to integrate women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups into the broader cleantech industry. At Georgetown McDonough, we are actively inviting corporate leaders to speak to our community about the power of diversity, equity, and belonging in the workplace. This fall, the Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series hosted important conversations around the power of diversity and its importance for the world’s leading corporations, featuring Tim Ryan,
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PwC’s US Chair, and Meghan Welch (C’98), Capital One’s Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Officer. The series will continue to feature leading executives working in the DEI space. Georgetown McDonough enrolled a highly diverse group of students during the 2020-2021 academic year: B.S. in Business and Global Affairs: The inaugural class of 41 students hals from China, Colombia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. Among the U.S. students, home states span the Northeast Corridor, the West Coast, Colorado, Kentucky, and Missouri. Overall, the students have an average Georgetown GPA of 3.8, and the group includes 22 women and 19 men. Full-time MBA Program: Underrepresented minority (URM) students increased to 19% (from 15%), and overall diversity was up to 38% (from 34%). Additionally, the program’s representation of women is up 2% to 32%. Despite challenges international students face as a result of the pandemic, they represent 28% of the class and hail from 37 countries. The average GMAT score was 691 and the average GPA increased to 3.34. Flex MBA Program: Continues to near gender parity, with 44% females in the incoming class (up from 38%). URM students account for 12% of the population, and international students increased from 2% to 11%. The average GMAT score remains among the highest for part-time programs listed in the U.S. News ranking with an increase to 661 and the average GPA was 3.41, also higher than last year. Master of Science in Finance: The entering class is the largest in program history with 164 students, a 28% increase from last year. The program also had a surge in completed applications, which were up 55%. The average GMAT score increased from 674 to 689, and URM student enrollment jumped from 23% to 30%. Additionally, 23% of the class is female, 37% did not major in business or economics in their undergraduate program, and 18% already hold a master’s degree. Master’s in Management: Welcomed its second class in 2020. It includes 68 students (up from 31), of which 60% are women
(up from 45%), 27% are URM (up from 13%), and 24% are international. The students represent 21 countries of citizenship (up from 14), with 18 different languages spoken by the students. The new cohort also had an average undergraduate grade-point average of 3.5 and an average GRE score of 311. M.S. in Business Analytics: Among the 59 students, the mean age is 29 with an average of five years of work experience (ranging from 0 to 27 years). The diverse cohort includes 25% URM students, 34% female students, and 10% international students. Their average undergraduate grade-point average is 3.4. Executive MBA: The incoming class of 57 students is 40% female (up from 36%) and 26% URM (up from 19%). In a program known for building a global business perspective, 74% of the class has worked or traveled abroad for business, up from 55%, and 19% hold international citizenship (up from 17%), representing 11 countries. Additionally, 30% have military experience, up from 10%. The new students also have more academic experience, with 42% already holding a postgraduate degree, up from 24%, and enrolling with an average of 14 years of work experience.
FACULT Y ACCOMPLISHMENTS REENA AGGARWAL, Robert E. McDonough Professor of
Finance and director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, served on the Biden-Harris Transition Agency Review Team on the Federal Reserve, Banking, and Securities Regulators as a volunteer. In this role, she was part of a team responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power and preparing the new administration’s cabinet to begin their work immediately after taking office. Individuals selected for transition teams are known as highly experienced and talented professionals with deep backgrounds in crucial policy areas across the federal government. Aggarwal also was elected vice president, programs for the 50th Anniversary Financial Management Association Conference held on Oct 19-23, 2020.
JASMINA CHAUVIN, assistant professor of strategy, economics, ethics, and public policy won the Best Paper Award of the Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference held virtually at Cornell University on for her paper on “The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time” (with P. Choudhury and T.P. Fang). TOM COOKE, distinguished teaching professor of accounting and business law, and RONALD GOODSTEIN, associate professor of marketing, have been named to the 2020 Poets & Quants Best Undergraduate Business Professors. JOHN CUI, associate professor of operations and information management, received the 2020 MSOM Meritorious Service Award from the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal. He also was invited to serve as senior editor for the Production and Operations Management journal. NEERU PAHARIA , associate professor of marketing, was a finalist for the Journal of Consumer Research Best Paper Award 2020 for Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol (with Silvia Bellezza and Anat Keinan).
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Longenecker Fellow. Reid is one of the only 87 Longenecker Fellows honored since 1986 for making an outstanding contribution to the development, furthering and benefit of entrepreneurship. JASON SCHLOETZER,
associate professor of accounting, received an appointment as a Research Advisor by Gallup, Inc. DAVID WALKER, John Largay Professor Emeritus of Finance, had a paper, The 2020 Presidential Election – Déjà vu All Over Again, listed among SSRN’s Top 10 download list for: PSN: Other Political Institutions: Elections.
NEW FACULT Y Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business welcomed three new faculty in the spring 2021 semester. GREG LYON, assistant teaching professor in business analytics (jointly appointed in McDonough and the McCourt School of Public Policy) Expertise: work and employment, public policy, regulation, political behavior, health, working conditions Ph.D., Rutgers University MICHAEL O’DONNELL, assistant
professor of marketing Expertise: How people express their preferences and how they impose
EMISA NATEGH, assistant
ingredient in their success, with 97% of students securing internships prior to graduation. The top industries for graduates were finance (49%) and consulting (22%), with public accounting (7%) and real estate (6%) also gaining interest from students.
AYUNG TSENT, visiting assistant professor of accounting Expertise: fundamental analysis, company disclosure, asset pricing, industrial organization Ph.D., Columbia Business School
According to the 2020 MBA Employment Report, 93% of Full-time MBA students received a job offer within three months of graduation, and 90% accepted their offers. They also will earn more than any previous class, with an average salary of $128,162 (up from $124,119) and an average signing bonus of $34,707 (up from $30,737).
constraints on how they think about and spend their money Ph.D., business administration, consumer behavior marketing, University of California, Berkeley
teaching professor of operations Expertise: data analytics, healthcare analytics Ph.D., University of Washington
SCHOOL ACCOMPLISHMENTS Alex Heintze (B’19) is one of two Georgetown alumni to be named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships located at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Heintze and Lucia He (SFS’15) are among a class of approximately 154 scholars selected globally from over 3,600 applicants, and include students from 39 countries and 99 universities. According to the 2020 Undergraduate Employment Report, 94% of McDonough graduates were employed full time, up from 91% the previous year, and their average starting salaries increased from $75,822 to $78,015. The average signing bonus was $8,848, and 72% of graduates received one. Experiential learning was a key
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Consulting (32%) and financial services (24%) remained top industries, with technology increasing from 14% to 19% and social impact/nonprofit increasing from 3% to 6%. Real Estate held steady at 6% this year. Additionally, 81% of job acceptances were facilitated by Georgetown, with only 19% through the graduates themselves. Among the Class of 2021, 99% of students seeking internships secured one, with an average monthly cash compensation of $7,894 — a 3% increase from the previous year. A total of 82% of internship placements were facilitated by the school.
RANKINGS • Financial Times: Executive MBA, 5th in the United States and 40th in the world; also 1st in the United States and 7th in the world for incorporating corporate social responsibility into the curriculum; in the United States: 4th for the percentage of faculty who hold passports from outside the United States; 5th for career progress, prior work experience among participants, and the percentage of women enrolled in the program; 6th for salary increase three years after graduation; 7th for alumni aims achieved; and 9th for the percentage of global experiences. • Financial Times: Full-time MBA, 9th in the United States and 17th in the world; also 7th among U.S. schools for salary increase, 7th for the percentage of core course content devoted to CSR/ethics/ environmental issues. • Poets & Quants: Undergraduate Program, 5th; also 2nd in the employment rank, 6th in the admissions rank, and 15th in the academic experience. • Princeton Review: Full-time MBA, 4th for careers in nonprofits. • U.S. News & World Report: M.S. in Finance, 6th overall and 2nd among schools with MSF programs in the online business program ranking. Also 5th overall and 3rd among schools that offer an online MSF among top schools for veterans.
• U.S. News & World Report: Undergraduate Program, 16th and 4th for international business.
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS • At the annual Bark Tank Pitch Competition, student and alumni entrepreneurs received $155,000 in funding from the Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize. Judged by a panel led by Ted Leonsis (C’77, P’14, P’15) and Zach Leonsis (MBA’15) of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the student award recipients included: • Button Helper, KnoNap, and Project Olas each received $30,000. Button Helper, founded by Robert Bolen, an undergraduate alumnus, allows people of all abilities to dress themselves with ease. KnoNap, founded by Danya Sherman (MBA’21), is a cocktail napkin that is capable upon saturation of detecting specific date-rape drug presence. Project Olas, founded by Rebecca Cox (SFS’23), offers conversational Spanish language tutoring taught online by moms in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump community. • Parrotfish LLC, founded by Katie Pearson Fucci (SCS’20), which offers subscriptions of refillable plastic-free, palm-free, personalcare products, won $20,000. • [The Bar], founded by Betel Teka (C’20); COVID Can I Do It?, founded by Gayatri Sanku (G’22); Flolango, founded by Izuo-Ere Digifa (Pivot’20); and Kits to
Heart, founded by Sonia Su (G’20), each won $10,000. • KnoNap also won the Georgetown Entrepreneurship People’s Choice Award of $5,000. Oct. 17: Embassy Series: Norway (Global Business Initiative) Other significant events include: • October 2: Olivier Elamine, CEO, Alstria Office REIT (McBride Lecture Series, Steers Center for Global Real Estate) • Oct. 13: Championing a Diverse Workforce, featuring Meghan Welch (C’98), senior vice president, head of enterprise human resources, and chief diversity and inclusion officer, Capital One (Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series) • Oct. 21: Looking Forward: The Future of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, featuring Natasha Braginsky Mounier (F’91), former ESG investment director, The Capital Group (Alumni Relations) • Oct. 29: Purpose in Crisis, featuring Frank Cooper, senior managing director and global chief marketing officer, BlackRock (Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series) • Oct. 29: The Future of Retail, featuring Rosalia Bucaro Polizzi (C’00), senior vice president, womens, mens, and kids fashion, Rue Gilt Groupe; P.C.
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Chandra (B’08), head of global operations, Diane Von Furstenburg (Former); Monica Ferguson (B’00), co-founder and CEO, Solemates; Nicole McGrew (L’05), owner, Threadleaf; and Matthew Shay (EMBA’11), president, National Retail Federation (Alumni Relations) • Nov. 5: Autonomous Vehicles: Coming to a Street Near You • Nov. 11: Start-Up Nation, featuring Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, and moderated by Gil Tenzer (Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series) • Nov. 11: How Corporations can be a Force For Good, featuring Troye Bullock (C’16), co-founder and chief operating officer, Good Projects; Danielle Conkling (B’01), senior manager, Silicon Valley Bank; and Jennifer Heflin (B’03, MBA’10), senior manager, management consulting, Accenture (Alumni Relations) • Nov. 12: A Conversation with Ben Weiss, founder, Bai Brands (Georgetown Entrepreneurship Paul Hill Series) • Nov. 16-20: Financial Markets Quality Conference, featuring: Joe Amato (B’84), president and chief investment officer of equities, Neuberger Berman; Robert Cook, president and CEO, FINRA; Stacey Cunninghan, president, New York Stock Exchange;
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Henry Fernandez (B’79), chairman and CEO, MSCI; Barbara Novick, vice chairman and co-founder, BlackRock; David Rubeinstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group; and Waqas Samad, chief executive officer, FTSE Russell at London Stock Exchange Group (Center for Financial Markets and Policy) • Nov. 18: Building Toward Workplace Utopia, featuring Tim Ryan, U.S. chair and senior partner, PwC (Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series) • Dec. 2: AI and the Future of Work, featuring Paul Almeida, dean and William R. Berkley Chair, and a panel of alumni (Alumni Relations) • Dec. 9: Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International • Jan. 14: The Myth of Experience: Learning the Right Lessons to Improve Decisions, featuring Emre Soyer, founder of SOYER Decision Advisory, and moderated by Evan Piekara (MBA’13) (Alumni Relations) • Feb. 3: Book Launch: Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World, featuring Bill Novelli, distinguished professor of the practice and founder, Business for Impact initiative (Business for Impact) • Feb. 24: Snacking Made Right: A Conversation with Mondelēz’s Christine McGrath on Why
Sustainability Matters (Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series) • Feb. 24 & 26: Sleep 101: A Crash Course for Increasing Productivity, Health, and Well-Being (Alumni) • Feb. 25: BIG EAST Startup Challenge (Georgetown Entrepreneurship) • March 12: Dean’s DEI Research Seminar Series: Gender (Still) Matters in Business School • March 15: A Conversation with Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO, Chobani (Global Business Experience) • March 16: A Conversation with James Freis (C’92), former CEO, Wirecard (Global Business Experience) • March 18: A Conversation with Florian Craen, executive vice president of sales and distribution, Hermès (Global Business Initiative and Georgetown Retail & Luxury Association) • March 19: Women in Finance Academic Seminar: Gender and Diversity Research (Center for Financial Markets and Policy)
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