Georgetown University Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University is a Catholic and Jesuit student-centered research university. Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding. Georgetown educates men and women to be reflective life-long learners, to be responsible and active participants in civil life, and to live generously in service to others.

In keeping with the best traditions of Georgetown University, the McDonough School of Business is dedicated to the goals of educating ethically responsible business leaders and producing new knowledge that will improve both the management of organizations and their contributions to life in a global society.

The McDonough School seeks to accomplish these goals by providing its MBA students with an intense culture of business ethics, which it cultivates in several ways: through interdisciplinary academic centers such as the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute and the Center for Business and Public Policy, by requiring every MBA student to complete a course in business ethics, by infusing issues and cases dealing with social responsibility in its second year Global Integrative experience as well as in elective courses across the business disciplines, and by forging close partnerships with other Georgetown University programs, including the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. The school's chapter of Net Impact won the 2004 Chapter of the Year Award.