Global Business Experience

Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Global Business Initiative’s

GLOBAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE Because Business Has No Borders

WELCOME Known around the world for its emphasis on international business, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business created the Global Business Initiative (GBI) to ensure the school’s global mission is evident throughout all aspects of the student experience.

RICARDO ERNST, PH.D. Baratta Chair in Global Business and Professor of Operations Director Global Business Initiative

Located in one of the world’s most dynamic cities, Georgetown McDonough offers our students unparalleled access to global executives in business, government, and nonprofit organizations. GBI seeks to continue Georgetown’s status as the premier destination for global business education. In order to create more transformational opportunities for students, GBI works to expand the school’s touchstone Global Business Experience — which is highlighted in this brochure — and form partnerships with schools, organizations, and companies in Washington, D.C., and around the world.

GBI’s work is invigorating — and necessary.

I like to tell people that business has no borders. In this age of globalization, it is crucial that Georgetown McDonough educates future global-ready business leaders capable of making complex decisions. The Global Business Initiative exists to make that possible.

Thank you for your interest in GBI. I look forward to welcoming you to our robust global business network.

ABOUT THE GLOBAL BUSINESS INITIATIVE The Global Business Initiative (GBI) works to distinguish Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as the premier destination for global business education.

GBI ensures that the global mission of Georgetown McDonough is evident throughout all aspects of the student experience — from the undergraduate to MBA to executive education programs — and through the school’s networks with alumni, employers, and partners at Georgetown and around the world.

One of GBI’s most important responsibilities is to manage the school’s hallmark Global Business Experience. As you will learn on these pages, the Global Business Experience gives students the opportunity to address pressing business challenges with clients from around the world, ranging from small entrepreneurial companies to international enterprises. Thanks to programs like the Global Business Experience, McDonough students graduate prepared to succeed as global-ready leaders.

Evening MBA students contemplate the ancient fortification of Masada in Israel during their Global Business Experience.

GLOBAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE The Global Business Experience empowers students to more fully understand how business is conducted around the world. As a leader in global business education, Georgetown McDonough offers students the opportunity to travel abroad to consult either within an industry or with specific Fortune 500 companies. This innovative program is required of all graduate students and is an elective for undergraduates.

Since its inception, the Global Business Experience has reached:

9,300+ STUDENTS

1,700+ PROJECTS

32 CITIES

22

COUNTRIES

Working in small teams, students partner with executives from multinational organizations to address complex business challenges. Students spend several weeks on campus applying strategic business and analytical skills, with the guidance of faculty members, to develop solutions for their client. Then, students travel to the client’s country for a week-long trip to present recommendations to senior leadership.

Companies often implement these recommendations, affecting business development and operations on a global scale.

“ My global consulting experience allowed me to understand the factors businesses must consider when deciding to go global. I was able to synthesize concepts into a cohesive, holistic strategy that the company could use.”

MISTY LI (B’17) Client: Nestlé Current Position: Trading Analyst, Morgan Stanley Hong Kong

FACULTY Georgetown McDonough faculty are key to the success of the Global Business Experience. During the program, faculty collaborate with participating organizations to define the consulting projects and supervise student work, drawing on their many years of research and industry experience to benefit the student and client experience.

FACULTY

EXPERTISE

COURSES

Vishal Agrawal

Supply Chain Management

• Operations Management

James Angel

Finance

• Principles of Investment • Investment Analysis

Thomas Cooke

Accounting

• Business Law • Taxation

Arthur Dong

Strategy

• Economics of Strategic Behavior • Organizational Design Strategy

José R. de la Torre

International Business

• Global Business Experience

Allan Eberhart

Finance

• Financial Markets

Ricardo Ernst

Operations and Global Logistics

• Global Logistics • Competing in a Flat World

Kasra Ferdows

Operations Management

• Operations • Global Operations

Brian Gill

Finance and Real Estate

• Real Estate Capital Markets • Real Estate Finance

Bardia Kamrad

Risk Management

• Regression Analysis

Catherine Langlois

Strategy

• Global Business Experience

Michael McDermott

Organizational Behavior, Leadership

• Leadership and Social Intelligence • Communicating for Business Leadership

Stanley Nollen

International Business

• International Business • Macroeconomics • Microconomics

Michael O’Leary

Leadership

• Principled Leadership for Business and Society

Sezer Ulku

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain

• Operations • Developing New Business Models

ADDITIONAL GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ABROAD

Full-time MBA students can elect to study abroad for a semester through partnerships with London Business School in London, England; HEC Paris in Paris, France; ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Beijing International MBA at Peking University in Beijing, China.

The Undergraduate Program offers customized summer programs at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Oxford University in Oxford, England; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. Students complete two business courses through these four- to six-week-long programs. The Undergraduate Program also created the summer Global Social Internship Program, which sponsors students to work in non-profit internships in Nicaragua, Peru, Costa Rica, India, and China. In addition, through the university’s Office of Global Education, undergraduates can study abroad at more than 75 universities and colleges in 40 countries.

Evening MBA students help the community during their Global Business Experience in Lima, Peru.

CLIENTS Georgetown McDonough engages with approximately 150 companies each year to conduct projects in areas such as market entry, market development, communications, innovation strategy, competitive strategy, and global growth strategy. Participating companies gain access to global-ready business students and benefit from their research and industry- and client-specific recommendations.

In addition to client meetings, students also immerse themselves into the business culture of the host city through cultural events, discussions with local entrepreneurs, and visits to nonprofits and company headquarters.

The experience continues even after the trip abroad. Upon returning to campus, students work across functional areas and learn from one another to draw conclusions about how industries operate around the world. They share their projects with their peers during a global business conference, from which the school is generating a series of Global Business Perspectives that leverage these global experiences.

RECENT CORPORATE AND NONPROFIT CLIENTS

“ Even the best case discussions and lectures cannot match what our students learn in the Global Business Experience. Georgetown McDonough has developed substantial relationships with companies around the world and has accumulated years of experience to offer this course. We continue to invest in it because of its long-lasting effects on our students.”

KASRA FERDOWS Operations and Information Management Faculty

Full-time MBA students work on their final consulting report before presenting it to to senior management from Cafosa in Barcelona, Spain.

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3M Agility Aldar Properties PJSC Barclays BM&F BOVESPA Boeing Booz Allen Hamilton Careem Carpigiani Catholic Welfare and Development Citi Coca-Cola Codorníu Colgate Desigual

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Eldene Primary School Estée Lauder Ferretti General Electric International Finance Corporation Ipanema Coffees Lamborghini Mahindra First Choice O’Coffee Philips Rio Tinto SCOUTS South Africa Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Tishman Speyer

“ It was a pleasure to work with such intelligent, professional teams.

For each country they provided several ideas for future IFC engagement in the purchasing power parity space. In doing so, they contributed significantly to our business development efforts in those countries.”

DAN CROFT, Senior Investment Officer International Finance Corporation (South Africa)

FACULTY Georgetown McDonough faculty are key to the success of the Global Business Experience. During the program, faculty collaborate with participating organizations to define the consulting projects and supervise student work, drawing on their many years of research and industry experience to benefit the student and client experience.

FACULTY

EXPERTISE

COURSES

Vishal Agrawal

Supply Chain Management

• Operations Management

James Angel

Finance

• Principles of Investment • Investment Analysis

Thomas Cooke

Accounting

• Business Law • Taxation

Arthur Dong

Strategy

• Economics of Strategic Behavior • Organizational Design Strategy

José R. de la Torre

International Business

• Global Business Experience

Allan Eberhart

Finance

• Financial Markets

Ricardo Ernst

Operations and Global Logistics

• Global Logistics • Competing in a Flat World

Kasra Ferdows

Operations Management

• Operations • Global Operations

Brian Gill

Finance and Real Estate

• Real Estate Capital Markets • Real Estate Finance

Bardia Kamrad

Risk Management

• Regression Analysis

Catherine Langlois

Strategy

• Global Business Experience

Michael McDermott

Organizational Behavior, Leadership

• Leadership and Social Intelligence • Communicating for Business Leadership

Stanley Nollen

International Business

• International Business • Macroeconomics • Microconomics

Michael O’Leary

Leadership

• Principled Leadership for Business and Society

Sezer Ulku

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain

• Operations • Developing New Business Models

ADDITIONAL GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ABROAD

Full-time MBA students can elect to study abroad for a semester through partnerships with London Business School in London, England; HEC Paris in Paris, France; ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Beijing International MBA at Peking University in Beijing, China.

The Undergraduate Program offers customized summer programs at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Oxford University in Oxford, England; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. Students complete two business courses through these four- to six-week-long programs. The Undergraduate Program also created the summer Global Social Internship Program, which sponsors students to work in non-profit internships in Nicaragua, Peru, Costa Rica, India, and China. In addition, through the university’s Office of Global Education, undergraduates can study abroad at more than 75 universities and colleges in 40 countries.

Evening MBA students help the community during their Global Business Experience in Lima, Peru.

CLIENTS Georgetown McDonough engages with approximately 150 companies each year to conduct projects in areas such as market entry, market development, communications, innovation strategy, competitive strategy, and global growth strategy. Participating companies gain access to global-ready business students and benefit from their research and industry- and client-specific recommendations.

In addition to client meetings, students also immerse themselves into the business culture of the host city through cultural events, discussions with local entrepreneurs, and visits to nonprofits and company headquarters.

The experience continues even after the trip abroad. Upon returning to campus, students work across functional areas and learn from one another to draw conclusions about how industries operate around the world. They share their projects with their peers during a global business conference, from which the school is generating a series of Global Business Perspectives that leverage these global experiences.

RECENT CORPORATE AND NONPROFIT CLIENTS

“ Even the best case discussions and lectures cannot match what our students learn in the Global Business Experience. Georgetown McDonough has developed substantial relationships with companies around the world and has accumulated years of experience to offer this course. We continue to invest in it because of its long-lasting effects on our students.”

BARDIA KAMRAD Operations and Information Management Faculty

Full-time MBA students work on their final consulting report before presenting it to to senior management from Cafosa in Barcelona, Spain.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

3M Agility Aldar Properties PJSC Barclays BM&F BOVESPA Boeing Booz Allen Hamilton Careem Carpigiani Catholic Welfare and Development Citi Coca-Cola Codorníu Colgate Desigual

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Eldene Primary School Estée Lauder Ferretti General Electric International Finance Corporation Ipanema Coffees Lamborghini Mahindra First Choice O’Coffee Philips Rio Tinto SCOUTS South Africa Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Tishman Speyer

“ It was a pleasure to work with such intelligent, professional teams.

For each country they provided several ideas for future IFC engagement in the purchasing power parity space. In doing so, they contributed significantly to our business development efforts in those countries.”

DAN CROFT, Senior Investment Officer International Finance Corporation (South Africa)

FACULTY Georgetown McDonough faculty are key to the success of the Global Business Experience. During the program, faculty collaborate with participating organizations to define the consulting projects and supervise student work, drawing on their many years of research and industry experience to benefit the student and client experience.

FACULTY

EXPERTISE

COURSES

Vishal Agrawal

Supply Chain Management

• Operations Management

James Angel

Finance

• Principles of Investment • Investment Analysis

Arthur Dong

Strategy

• Economics of Strategic Behavior • Organizational Design Strategy

José R. de la Torre

International Business

• Global Business Experience

Allan Eberhart

Finance

• Financial Markets

Ricardo Ernst

Operations and Global Logistics

• Global Logistics • Competing in a Flat World

Kasra Ferdows

Operations Management

• Operations • Global Operations

Brian Gill

Finance and Real Estate

• Real Estate Capital Markets • Real Estate Finance

Bardia Kamrad

Risk Management

• Regression Analysis

Catherine Langlois

Strategy

• Global Business Experience

Michael McDermott

Organizational Behavior, Leadership

• Leadership and Social Intelligence • Communicating for Business Leadership

Stanley Nollen

International Business

• International Business • Macroeconomics • Microconomics

Michael O’Leary

Leadership

• Principled Leadership for Business and Society

Rama Ramamurthy

Accounting

• Accounting

Wei Tang

Finance

• Corporate Financial Reporting

Sezer Ulku

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain

• Operations • Developing New Business Models

ADDITIONAL GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ABROAD

Full-time MBA students can elect to study abroad for a semester through partnerships with London Business School in London, England; HEC Paris in Paris, France; ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Beijing International MBA at Peking University in Beijing, China.

The Undergraduate Program offers customized summer programs at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Oxford University in Oxford, England; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. Students complete two business courses through these four- to six-week-long programs. The Undergraduate Program also created the summer Global Social Internship Program, which sponsors students to work in non-profit internships in Nicaragua, Peru, Costa Rica, India, and China. In addition, through the university’s Office of Global Education, undergraduates can study abroad at more than 75 universities and colleges in 40 countries.

Evening MBA students help the community during their Global Business Experience in Lima, Peru.

CLIENTS Georgetown McDonough engages with approximately 150 companies each year to conduct projects in areas such as market entry, market development, communications, innovation strategy, competitive strategy, and global growth strategy. Participating companies gain access to global-ready business students and benefit from their research and industry- and client-specific recommendations.

In addition to client meetings, students also immerse themselves into the business culture of the host city through cultural events, discussions with local entrepreneurs, and visits to nonprofits and company headquarters.

The experience continues even after the trip abroad. Upon returning to campus, students work across functional areas and learn from one another to draw conclusions about how industries operate around the world. They share their projects with their peers during a global business conference, from which the school is generating a series of Global Business Perspectives that leverage these global experiences.

RECENT CORPORATE AND NONPROFIT CLIENTS

“ Even the best case discussions and lectures cannot match what our students learn in the Global Business Experience. Georgetown McDonough has developed substantial relationships with companies around the world and has accumulated years of experience to offer this course. We continue to invest in it because of its long-lasting effects on our students.”

KASRA FERDOWS Operations and Information Management Faculty

Full-time MBA students work on their final consulting report before presenting it to to senior management from Cafosa in Barcelona, Spain.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

3M Agility Aldar Properties PJSC Barclays BM&F BOVESPA Boeing Booz Allen Hamilton Careem Carpigiani Catholic Welfare and Development Citi Coca-Cola Codorníu Colgate Desigual

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Eldene Primary School Estée Lauder Ferretti General Electric International Finance Corporation Ipanema Coffees Lamborghini Mahindra First Choice O’Coffee Philips Rio Tinto SCOUTS South Africa Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Tishman Speyer

“ It was a pleasure to work with such intelligent, professional teams.

For each country they provided several ideas for future IFC engagement in the purchasing power parity space. In doing so, they contributed significantly to our business development efforts in those countries.”

DAN CROFT, Senior Investment Officer International Finance Corporation (South Africa)

GLOBAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCELOCATIONS The McDonough School of Business pioneered the Global Business Experience in 1994. Since then, Undergraduate, Full-time MBA, MBA Evening Program, Executive MBA, Executive Master’s in Leadership, and Master of Science in Finance students have traveled to the following locations for their international consulting projects.

“ GBE is such a unique program. My team and I produced a detailed business strategy proposal for Bonduelle, a world leader in ready-to-use vegetables, and presented our findings and recommendations to upper-level executives of the company. GBE teaches teamwork, organization, communication, and professionalism, and overall it is an extremely rewarding experience.”

MAASTRICHT BERLIN

LONDON

WASHINGTON, D.C.

MONTERREY

“ For companies to both survive and thrive in today’s global economy, they must adopt a global mindset.

This starts with each of us — if we, as students, don’t understand the ramifications of globalization and globality, then the companies we work for in the future will suffer. The GBE journey was a first step to gaining this necessary firsthand experience.”

PRAGUE

TATIANA HADCHITI (B’18) Client: Bonduelle

BOLOGNA

MADRID

SEOUL BARCELONA

TEL AVIV DELHI

ROME

DUBAI

CINDY CHU (B’19) Client: Decathlon

MERIDA

BEIJING

ISTANBUL

LILLE

SHANGHAI MUMBAI

ABU DHABI

HONG KONG PUNE

MEXICO CITY

ACCRA BANGALORE NAIROBI

HO CHI MINH CITY

“ Our Global Business Experience in Seoul was a transformative journey, both individually and for my teammates. Our client challenged our team to explore areas of future growth and new revenue opportunities. Our experience was enhanced by our sponsor and host, who was a Hoya graduate. His passion for Georgetown and desire to share the culture of Korea with us was evident; the experiences shared will be a highlight of my time at Georgetown.”

LIMA JOHANNESBURG “ After working with our client and traveling to Peru, I have a whole new understanding and appreciation for the impact of culture on business interactions and relationships. There is a vast difference between conducting conference calls on different continents and actually engaging with a culture in a meaningful way. I plan to continue to seek ways to immerse myself in global opportunities like this whenever possible.”

KATHLEEN DAVIS (MBA’19) Client: La Grama

SÃO PAULO

MENDOZA BUENOS AIRES

“ My time in Cape Town was at its core a deeply humanistic experience — beyond academics and business. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to connect with and be in service to people I would otherwise have never had the chance to meet. The opportunity to engage in work that strove for a real, meaningful impact in their lives and communities has been immeasurable in terms of its influence on my professional and personal life.”

TIM LYONS (EML’19) Client: Eldene Primary School

CAPE TOWN

“ The Global Business Experience was a great way to end my Georgetown MBA. During the first year we spent time reading cases and understanding business problems where we knew what the solution was. With the GBE we were able to create our own solution.”

CHRISSY MALAMIS (MBA’18) Client: DRP Capital

BRENT HELLER (EMBA’19) Client: Byucksan

GLOBAL BUSINESS EXPERIENCELOCATIONS The McDonough School of Business pioneered the Global Business Experience in 1994. Since then, Undergraduate, Full-time MBA, MBA Evening Program, Executive MBA, Executive Master’s in Leadership, and Master of Science in Finance students have traveled to the following locations for their international consulting projects.

“ GBE is such a unique program. My team and I produced a detailed business strategy proposal for Bonduelle, a world leader in ready-to-use vegetables, and presented our findings and recommendations to upper-level executives of the company. GBE teaches teamwork, organization, communication, and professionalism, and overall it is an extremely rewarding experience.”

MAASTRICHT BERLIN

LONDON

WASHINGTON, D.C.

MONTERREY

“ For companies to both survive and thrive in today’s global economy, they must adopt a global mindset.

This starts with each of us — if we, as students, don’t understand the ramifications of globalization and globality, then the companies we work for in the future will suffer. The GBE journey was a first step to gaining this necessary firsthand experience.”

PRAGUE

TATIANA HADCHITI (B’18) Client: Bonduelle

BOLOGNA

MADRID

SEOUL BARCELONA

TEL AVIV DELHI

ROME

DUBAI

CINDY CHU (B’19) Client: Decathlon

MERIDA

BEIJING

ISTANBUL

LILLE

SHANGHAI MUMBAI

ABU DHABI

HONG KONG PUNE

MEXICO CITY

ACCRA BANGALORE NAIROBI

HO CHI MINH CITY

“ Our Global Business Experience in Seoul was a transformative journey, both individually and for my teammates. Our client challenged our team to explore areas of future growth and new revenue opportunities. Our experience was enhanced by our sponsor and host, who was a Hoya graduate. His passion for Georgetown and desire to share the culture of Korea with us was evident; the experiences shared will be a highlight of my time at Georgetown.”

LIMA JOHANNESBURG “ After working with our client and traveling to Peru, I have a whole new understanding and appreciation for the impact of culture on business interactions and relationships. There is a vast difference between conducting conference calls on different continents and actually engaging with a culture in a meaningful way. I plan to continue to seek ways to immerse myself in global opportunities like this whenever possible.”

KATHLEEN DAVIS (MBA’19) Client: La Grama

SÃO PAULO

MENDOZA BUENOS AIRES

“ My time in Cape Town was at its core a deeply humanistic experience — beyond academics and business. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to connect with and be in service to people I would otherwise have never had the chance to meet. The opportunity to engage in work that strove for a real, meaningful impact in their lives and communities has been immeasurable in terms of its influence on my professional and personal life.”

TIM LYONS (EML’19) Client: Eldene Primary School

CAPE TOWN

“ The Global Business Experience was a great way to end my Georgetown MBA. During the first year we spent time reading cases and understanding business problems where we knew what the solution was. With the GBE we were able to create our own solution.”

CHRISSY MALAMIS (MBA’18) Client: DRP Capital

BRENT HELLER (EMBA’19) Client: Byucksan

FACULTY Georgetown McDonough faculty are key to the success of the Global Business Experience. During the program, faculty collaborate with participating organizations to define the consulting projects and supervise student work, drawing on their many years of research and industry experience to benefit the student and client experience.

FACULTY

EXPERTISE

COURSES

Vishal Agrawal

Supply Chain Management

• Operations Management

James Angel

Finance

• Principles of Investment • Investment Analysis

Arthur Dong

Strategy

• Economics of Strategic Behavior • Organizational Design Strategy

José R. de la Torre

International Business

• Global Business Experience

Allan Eberhart

Finance

• Financial Markets

Ricardo Ernst

Operations and Global Logistics

• Global Logistics • Competing in a Flat World

Kasra Ferdows

Operations Management

• Operations • Global Operations

Brian Gill

Finance and Real Estate

• Real Estate Capital Markets • Real Estate Finance

Bardia Kamrad

Risk Management

• Regression Analysis

Catherine Langlois

Strategy

• Global Business Experience

Michael McDermott

Organizational Behavior, Leadership

• Leadership and Social Intelligence • Communicating for Business Leadership

Stanley Nollen

International Business

• International Business • Macroeconomics • Microconomics

Michael O’Leary

Leadership

• Principled Leadership for Business and Society

Rama Ramamurthy

Accounting

• Accounting

Wei Tang

Finance

• Corporate Financial Reporting

Sezer Ulku

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain

• Operations • Developing New Business Models

ADDITIONAL GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ABROAD

Full-time MBA students can elect to study abroad for a semester through partnerships with London Business School in London, England; HEC Paris in Paris, France; ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Beijing International MBA at Peking University in Beijing, China.

The Undergraduate Program offers customized summer programs at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; Oxford University in Oxford, England; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. Students complete two business courses through these four- to six-week-long programs. The Undergraduate Program also created the summer Global Social Internship Program, which sponsors students to work in non-profit internships in Nicaragua, Peru, Costa Rica, India, and China. In addition, through the university’s Office of Global Education, undergraduates can study abroad at more than 75 universities and colleges in 40 countries.

Evening MBA students help the community during their Global Business Experience in Lima, Peru.

CLIENTS Georgetown McDonough engages with approximately 150 companies each year to conduct projects in areas such as market entry, market development, communications, innovation strategy, competitive strategy, and global growth strategy. Participating companies gain access to global-ready business students and benefit from their research and industry- and client-specific recommendations.

In addition to client meetings, students also immerse themselves into the business culture of the host city through cultural events, discussions with local entrepreneurs, and visits to nonprofits and company headquarters.

The experience continues even after the trip abroad. Upon returning to campus, students work across functional areas and learn from one another to draw conclusions about how industries operate around the world. They share their projects with their peers during a global business conference, from which the school is generating a series of Global Business Perspectives that leverage these global experiences.

RECENT CORPORATE AND NONPROFIT CLIENTS

“ Even the best case discussions and lectures cannot match what our students learn in the Global Business Experience. Georgetown McDonough has developed substantial relationships with companies around the world and has accumulated years of experience to offer this course. We continue to invest in it because of its long-lasting effects on our students.”

KASRA FERDOWS Operations and Information Management Faculty

Full-time MBA students work on their final consulting report before presenting it to to senior management from Cafosa in Barcelona, Spain.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

3M Agility Aldar Properties PJSC Barclays BM&F BOVESPA Boeing Booz Allen Hamilton Careem Carpigiani Catholic Welfare and Development Citi Coca-Cola Codorníu Colgate Desigual

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Eldene Primary School Estée Lauder Ferretti General Electric International Finance Corporation Ipanema Coffees Lamborghini Mahindra First Choice O’Coffee Philips Rio Tinto SCOUTS South Africa Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Tishman Speyer

“ It was a pleasure to work with such intelligent, professional teams.

For each country they provided several ideas for future IFC engagement in the purchasing power parity space. In doing so, they contributed significantly to our business development efforts in those countries.”

DAN CROFT, Senior Investment Officer International Finance Corporation (South Africa)

SPEAKERS

The Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series brings accomplished business leaders to engage the Georgetown community in dialogue about leadership in an ever-changing world. Speakers have included leaders from global companies such as Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Dior, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Michael Kors, Rosetta Stone, and Tom Ford International.

Business leaders also visit McDonough classrooms to provide cultural and business insights to students preparing for their Global Business Experiences. Speakers have included José Andrés, president of ThinkFoodGroup; Ramón Gil-Casares, Ambassador of Spain to the United States; Ken Martin, assistant vice president of Barclays Africa; Zhang Mei, founder of WildChina; and Ana Palacio, Spanish council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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+

There are more than 50 student-run organizations — STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS professional, regional, cultural, interest-based, service, recreational, and student government — for MBA and undergraduate students at the McDonough School of Business that attest to Georgetown’s global culture and community.

“ GBE helped me to be more comfortable speaking the universal business language and more adept at understanding other cultures and how they employ business fundamentals.”

ALEXANDER COLE (MBA’18) Client: GRI Renewable Industries

CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO

MAXIMO J. BLANDON (MBA’88) Chair Global Business Advisory Board

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Global Business Initiative.

As a graduate of the McDonough School of Business with several decades of experience working with clients in more than 30 countries, I am keenly attuned to the critical and practical capabilities that our future successful business leaders must have in a global environment.

Through the Global Business Experience, we ensure that our students gain the full benefits of a global education in the 21st century. We bring together senior executives and thought leaders across multiple sectors to work with students for their consulting projects or in preparation for their travel abroad. And as advisory board members to the initiative, we act as a sounding board and worldwide network to help ensure students are global ready when they graduate.

Thank you for your attention to this exciting program. I look forward to learning from your own global experiences.

GLOBAL BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD The Global Business Initiative has assembled an outstanding team of business professionals from across the world to advise the dean on Georgetown McDonough’s global mission.

Joseph Baratta (B’93) Global Head of Private Equity, Blackstone Maximo Blandon (MBA’88) – Chair Managing Director and Co-Head of Power and Industrial Technology, Stephens Joyce Chang Global Head of Research, J.P. Morgan Alifia Doriwala (C’00) Managing Director, The Rock Creek Group Ricardo Ernst Baratta Chair in Global Business and Director of GBI, Georgetown University Eric Fabrikant Chief Operating Officer, Seacor Holdings Hossein Fateh Founder and Principal, CLOUDHQ LLC Fabrizio Freda President and CEO, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Steve Marzo (B’80) Director, Altico Capital Board of Directors Franck Moison Vice Chairman, Colgate Palmolive Co. Brian Murdock President and CEO, Strategic Investment Group Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Founder and Chairman, Strategic Investment Group Roxana Pierce Of Counsel, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Manuel Puig Vice Chairman, Puig Satya Rangarajan Managing Partner, Enlightened Capital Management Joyce Utz (L’92) Chief Operating Officer, Souktel Monica Vidal Partner, MVS Global Consulting

Charles Fribourg Director, Continental Grain Company

Stephanie von Friedeburg (F’87) Chief Operating Officer, IFC

Álvaro Fernández Garza (MBA’95) President, Grupo Alfa

Fred Wakeman (MBA’90) Managing Partner, Advent International

Emanuel Gonzalez-Revilla Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to the United States

Carlos Zalles (B’75) Chairman and President, LW Investment Management

Javier López Madrid Managing Director, Villar Mir Group

CONTACT US

For more information about the Global Business Initiative please contact: Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Rafik B. Hariri Building, Suite 227 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057 Ricardo Ernst Director Valeria Bellagamba Associate Dean for Academic and Global Operations Wilbert Hidalgo Assistant Director of Data Management and Global Operations msb-gbi@georgetown.edu (202) 687-5327 msb.georgetown.edu/global-business-initiative @MSB_GBI