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Other benefits include easy access to faculty their ability to perform in the courses and
and student services, more space and integrated deliver effectively in the global consulting
technology for collaborative assignments, event projects. Another differentiator of George-
space to host guest lecturers from all areas of town’s business programs is that all of our
the international business community, offices graduate-level degree programs feature at
for student clubs and organizations, and two least one global residency project. Even our
beautiful commons areas for students – one for Executive Master’s in Leadership students
undergraduates and one for MBA students. have visited South Africa this year, where
they focused on leadership challenges in
leadership transforming South African businesses and
government institutions.
in this ever-changing economy, what
role does leadership play and to what These are quite demanding tests in the sense
extent is it addressed throughout the that when they are working with our corporate
program? how do you test the leadership sponsors for those projects, they are being com-
qualities of your students and, ultimately, pared with outside consulting organizations
prepare them for the real world business paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do
challenges that lay ahead? Leadership has similar kinds of work. In many instances, the
been a core part of Georgetown’s mission since corporate sponsors have told us that the quality
the time it was founded. The original founding of the work achieved in the student consultan-
documents of 1789 refer to developing leaders cy projects that came out of the MBA program
for the birth of the new nation, and it’s no and the Executive MBA program was equal or
mere coincidence that 1789 is the year that superior to the output for which they had paid
the U.S. Constitution was adopted. That vast sums to consultancies.
emphasis on leadership has permeated the
approach at all of the schools of the university A group of students from the Georgetown-
and particularly in the business school where ESADE Global Executive MBA program
we develop principled leaders who will completed a project in February of this year
make decisions that reflect moral and ethical on green energy market opportunities for
values. Leadership gets much attention here, Wipro in India. The project was so good it
along with the combination of the role of an merited publication in their quarterly maga-
executive or manager in an organization and zine. So it is a testament to the capabilities
the underlying business disciplines and skills the students have developed as leaders and
that are pertinent to a capable decision maker innovators and also to their ability to stand
or decision influencer. up to a real-world test.
Part of that commitment to leadership - both you were one of the first, if the not the
in terms of academic study and in teaching first to offer an Executive master’s in
- is reflected in the fact that we are the only leadership. To what extent does this
business school with an Executive Master’s in program complement the work that you
Leadership program. The 13-month curricu- are doing in the mBA space? Some 10 years
lum focuses on delivering leadership capabili- ago, business schools began a focused academic
ties and helping people take their improved in- effort to research and teach leadership. Quite
dividual skills back into their organizations to often the topic became more popular during
this fall, including two veterans of the business make significant transformations. periods of scandal. There was the dot-com
world – William Novelli, former CEO of boom and bust and the question was ‘where was
AARP and founder of the public relations All of the degree programs at Georgetown’s the leadership on the inside that allowed it to
firm Porter Novelli, and Meg VanDeWeghe, McDonough School of Business weave happen.’ There was a previous junk-bond boom
former senior vice president of finance for leadership components throughout the cur- and bust on Wall Street, there were various
Lockheed Martin and chairman of the board riculum. They are included through a com- ethical and financial scandals that happened at
of Lockheed Martin Investment Management bination of course work, residency exercises, Enron and Tyco, and at these times leadership
Company. This expansion in faculty and the and extra curricular activities like group and ethics would become topics of the moment.
growing strength of our student base has taken work and consulting projects that combine At serious business schools, researchers were
place thanks to the generosity of our donors classroom and hands-on experiences. taking this onboard and drawing on a wide
and the support of our alumni. Georgetown variety of disciplines to be able to understand
is growing when many other business schools As for testing the leadership qualities of our leadership in organizations and very specifically
are retrenching. students, on the academic side, we examine in business settings.
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