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Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Joins Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in business school and the corporate world, announced this week that Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has joined as its newest member school, bringing the total number of member schools to a record 18.
McDonough is the first new business school to join the Consortium since 2010. The Consortium recruits new member schools selectively, believing that by partnering with only the top MBA programs in the country is the best way to help its members and fellows succeed while providing its corporate partners with access to the most promising candidates.
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Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Hosts Young Women’s International Leadership Summit
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business this week welcomes a group of outstanding young women leaders from around the globe to its campus as part of a week-long leadership summit, the school announced this week.
Twenty-six young women between the ages of 15 and 23 are taking part in the iLive2Lead (iL2L) 2013 Young Women’s International Leadership Summit on McDonough’s Washington, DC, campus. The women, who come from 21 different countries, will learn leadership skills and develop entrepreneurship action plans as part of the event, which is sponsored by McDonough’s Office of Executive Education.
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Published: September 17, 2012
Admissions Director Q&A: Katelyn Rosa Stephenson of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University
We were lucky enough to catch Katelyn Rosa Stephenson just weeks into her role as interim assistant dean and director of MBA admissions at the McDonough School of Business. But though she is new to heading up admissions, she is not new to McDonough. She joined the admissions staff in March 2008, bringing with her plenty of experience from time spent working in undergraduate admission at the George Washington University.
Read on to learn what Rosa Stephenson has to share about the new curriculum McDonough will implement this fall, including the steps the school is taking to provide its students with a truly global education. She also highlights the contributions of Georgetown’s Jesuit origins to the MBA program and provides practical advice and insight regarding the admissions process. Check it out.
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MBA Admissions Staff Monitor for Plagiarism in Application Essays
Following the disclosure earlier this year by UCLA Anderson School of Management that it rejected 52 applicants to its MBA program under suspicion of plagiarism, more business schools are turning to paid services that can detect when prospective applicants try to pass off pre-canned work as part of their own application essays, a Financial Times article reports this week.
At UCLA Anderson, detecting plagiarism among applicants was an unanticipated result of going digital with its application process. Anderson’s admissions staff this year began reviewing all applications using iPads. “Once we went digital, all kinds of possibilities opened up, including the option to run admissions essays through Turnitin,” Andrew Ainslie, Anderson’s senior associate dean, told the FT.
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