The Georgetown MBA Gala 2011 will be held on March 8 at M1NT, and all alumni, parents and friends of Georgetown are invited. This event celebrates the end of the MBA Global Residency program, where MBA students work on consulting projects for companies around the world. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be generously provided by the McDonough School of Business.
Last year’s event drew well over a hundred people, so don’t miss this excellent opportunity to meet alumni, students and professors from Georgetown, at one of Shanghai’s most famous venues. Please RSVP to Angela Duncan on ald84@georgetown.edu.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
6:30 – 9:00 PM
M1NT
318 Fuzhou Lu
http://www.m1ntglobal.com/
Many thanks to Georgetown Professors Pietra Rivoli, Patricia Fairfield, Vicki Tang and Elaine Romanelli, and Georgetown Shanghai Liaison Office Director Pei Liu, who organized this event.
The formal invitation:
Georgetown University cordially invites its alumni, parents and friends to a reception in Shanghai to welcome Georgetown MBA students on the 7th Global Residency in Shanghai.
MBA Global Residency: In their last year, students begin work on the Global Residency, the capstone experience of the Georgetown MBA Program. Throughout the year, student consulting teams work together to solve a pressing business problem facing a foreign organization or Fortune 500 company with operations abroad. At the end of Module 3, student teams travel abroad to the client’s facilities to finalize their project and present recommendations to senior leadership. In recent years, teams have traveled to Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, India, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and Vietnam and worked for clients ranging from 3M and Philips Electronics to the World Bank and Yahoo!. This year marks the 7th year of the program in Shanghai.
Professor Patricia Fairfield teaches accounting and financial statement analysis, and her research interests include profitability analysis and earnings management. Professor Fairfield’s most recent publications include “Are Special Items Informative about Future Profit Margins?”in The Review of Accounting Studies and “Do Industry Level Analyses Improve Forecasts of Financial Performance?” in The Journal of Accounting Research. Professor Fairfield has provided training and consulting services in accounting and financial statement analysis to corporate executives, audit committees, loan officers, and equity research analysts.
Professor Pietra Rivoli teaches finance and international business in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs. Professor Rivoli has special interests in social justice issues in international business and in China, and she regularly leads MBA residencies to China. In 2006, Professor Rivoli was awarded a Faculty Pioneer Award by the Aspen Institute. This award recognizes Business School faculty who have been leaders in the integration of social and environmental issues into MBA curricula. Professor Rivoli’s 2005 book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, has been widely acclaimed by both the popular press and the academic community as a pathbreaking study of globalization. The book has been translated into 14 languages, including Chinese, and a second edition was published in 2009.
Professor Elaine Romanelli specializes in the areas of strategic management and entrepreneurship. Her current research focuses on the characteristics of firms and regional industry environments that are likely to promote new business foundings. In particular, she investigates the rise of U.S. biotechnology clusters. She has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Annual Review of Sociology, and Research in Organization Behavior. She is also an Associate Editor for Administrative Science Quarterly. She has consulted with both large and small companies, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurial start-ups.
Professor Vicki Tang teaches in the areas of accounting and financial statement analysis. A graduate of Beijing University and the University of Michigan, her research interests include earnings prediction as well as the Chinese stock market.
Pei Liu (刘佩) was appointed Georgetown University’s Liaison Office Director in Shanghai in February 2010. She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from The George Washington University, where she also worked in the Center for the Study of Globalization and taught and advised students. As part of her dissertation, in 2004, she conducted field research in China on the development of Sino-foreign collaborative educational alliances. A native of China, she earned her B.A. in Trade Economics from Wuhan University of Technology and an M.P.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Liu’s academic interests are interdisciplinary, with research and publications focused on new developments in transnational education, joint educational ventures, and international quality assurance and regulation. Prior to joining Georgetown, she managed the Educational Evaluation Services for Architects program at the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in Washington D.C., a program which provides educational credentialing for foreign architects to work in the United States.
