Entrepreneurship

A web platform created by two undergraduates that connects students with side businesses to the broader marketplace was among the winner's at last night's Bark Tank competition.

A six-hour phone call with a suicidal friend and a commitment to helping veterans and military service members motivated U.S. Army Maj. Christopher Mercado (G’16) to create mobile app technology…

The university announces finalists for the shared $100,000 Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize, for which student and alumni entrepreneurs will pitch their ventures at the annual “Bark Tank” competition Nov. 14.

Brittany Heyd (G‘13, L'13), an alumna of the McCourt School of Public Policy and Georgetown Law, creates a startup that fosters economic development in Hawaii by promoting local products and…

Recent alumnus Peter Nouhan (G’19) provides training to high school students to facilitate free tax preparation to low- and middle-income workers through the nonprofit he founded as a McCourt School…

Three incoming first-year students help develop PoliTalk USA, a free iOS app that profiles the field of Democratic presidential candidates and provides a look at each of their policy positions.

Recruiters surveyed by Bloomberg Businessweek give high marks across the board to Georgetown's McDonough School of Business for graduating the best-trained and most creative MBA students and for providing a…

Ben Mindes (G’19), a graduate student in Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, pilots the Observe D.C. Initiative, the nation's first sample-based election observation providing independent data on the quality…

Bronze Star medal recipient and law student Ty Pinkins (L'20) creates a nonprofit providing a weeklong leadership skills immersion experience in the nation’s capital for underserved teens from his native…

Eight students and alumni shared $100,000 in prizes at Georgetown Entrepreneurship’s second annual “Bark Tank” pitch competition at the McDonough School of Business.