McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

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Type	Private
Established	1957
Parent institution	Georgetown University
Affiliation	Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Dean	David A. Thomas
Undergraduates	1,354
Postgraduates	979
Location	Washington, D.C., USA 38°54′32.8″N 77°4′31.9″W / 38.909111°N 77.075528°W / 38.909111; -77.075528Coordinates: 38°54′32.8″N 77°4′31.9″W / 38.909111°N 77.075528°W / 38.909111; -77.075528
Affiliations	The Washington Campus
Website	msb.georgetown.edu

The McDonough School of Business (commonly abbreviated as MSB) is one of the four undergraduate and one of the five graduate schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is named in honor of Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough.

The school was founded in 1957 as an outgrowth of the School of Foreign Service. On October 7, 1998, the School of Business was renamed the McDonough School of Business in honor of alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough (F'49) after he made a gift of $30 million to the school.

In 2009 the McDonough School of Business moved into the newly constructed Rafik B. Hariri Building, named after the late Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and father of Georgetown alumnus Saad Hariri, also a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. The $82.5-million privately funded building opened in the summer of 2009. The new building includes 15 classrooms, eight case-style rooms, five tiered lecture rooms, and two flat-floor rooms; 34 breakout rooms complete with data ports, flat-screen video monitors, and white boards; separate undergraduate and graduate commons areas and lockers for graduate students; 120 faculty offices; 11 interview rooms within the Career Management Office; 15 conference rooms throughout the building; and a 400-seat auditorium, among other features.

Several academic themes distinguish the McDonough School of Business and give the school a special identity among managers and academicians, including international and intercultural dimensions of the marketplace, the importance of written and oral communication, and interpersonal effectiveness in organizations. As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Georgetown stresses ethics and social justice in its curriculum.

The Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research is one of several academic research centers at the McDonough School of Business.

The McDonough School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.