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Global-Ready Leaders
First MOOC course open to the world This fall, two initiatives will bring technology-enhanced business education to Georgetown McDonough MBA students and anyone in the world. As Georgetown MBAs prepare for their capstone Global Business Experience consulting projects, they will now complete an online module titled Global Business in Practice. A modified version of the module also will be offered as the school’s first massive open online course (MOOC). Global Business in Practice combines classroom lectures from Georgetown faculty, interviews with global business leaders, and interactive assessments to prepare both MBA students and MOOC participants to become global-ready business leaders. All Georgetown MBA students are required to take Global Business in Practice, a core component of the 4.5-credit Global Business Experience course that concludes with a global consulting project. For the first time, this course is being offered through a digital platform created by the Global Business Initiative in collaboration with Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. At the same time, the school has shared a modified, slightly abbreviated version of the course worldwide to anyone interested in learning more about global business through a MOOC on the edX platform. The MOOC will include lecture videos, poll questions, discussions, peer assessment exercises, and sources for further learning. “By utilizing technology to enhance our on-campus classroom experience, we have created an easy way to share our knowledge and expertise with anyone in the world,” said Ricardo Ernst, professor of operations and director of the Global Business Initiative. Both the required MBA course and the MOOC feature lessons from Ernst and his colleagues, as well as interviews with prominent global business leaders, including: • Joe Baratta, global head of private equity for Blackstone; • Mark del Rosso, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Audi of America; • Fabrizio Freda, president and CEO of Estée Lauder Cos.; • Franck Moison, vice chairman at Colgate-Palmolive Co.; and • Stephanie von Friedeburg, chief information officer and vice president for information technology solutions at the World Bank.
ON THE WEB
This fall, the McDonough School of Business welcomed seven new tenuredand tenure-track faculty members, as well as five visiting faculty members, professors of the practice, and lecturers.
Sumit Agarwal
Moshe A. Barach
Amanda W. Beck
William E. English
Gilles Hilary
David McLean
Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Christopher D. Parker
Reining Petacchi
Assistant Professor of Finance
Visiting Assistant Assistant Professor Professor of Operations of Accounting and Information Management
David Schmidtz
Evelyn J. Williams
S ˛afak Yücel
Professor of Finance
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Visiting Professor of Ethics
Lecturer in Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Houston Term Professor of Accounting
Teaching Professor of Management
Accounting Lecturer
Associate Professor of Finance
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management
SIGN UP FOR THE GLOBAL BUSINESS IN PRACTICE MOOC AT BIT.LY/GLOBALMOOC.
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
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