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Georgetown Entrepreneurial Organization
GEO, or the Georgetown Entrepreneurial Organization is a club at Georgetown University founded in 2007.  As the name suggests, GEO encourages entrepreneurialism in many forms in the Georgetown community.

GEO aims to foster an entrepreneurial spirit by hosting talks from entrepreneurs experienced in a multitude of industries, from restraunteurs to consultants, filmmakers to software tycoons. The group seeks to encourage entreprenuerialism through their work toward academic programs in entrepreneurship, their sponsorship of on-campus business plan and pitch competitions, and their organization of business plan workshops.

Georgetown Entrepreneurship Network
The Georgetown Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) provides resources, opportunities, and education for students wishing to start a new business.  It also supports students interested in working in small businesses, venture capital, cutting edge technology companies, or large corporations that promote the entrepreneurial spirit.

GEN sponsors speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and educational events to connect the Georgetown entrepreneurial community, both within and beyond the campus.

Compass Partners
Compass Partners is a student-led company that incubates social entrepreneurial ventures and offers social business training. As an incubator, Compass Partners provide start-up resources, seed funding, and a vibrant support network to students with innovative ideas to change the world through business.

Their main educational program, the Compass Fellowship exposes 15 college freshmen each year to the world of social entrepreneurship through an intensive personal development and social business training program. Fellowship modules focus on the different aspects of becoming a social entrepreneur and are led by thought leaders from the community including CEOs, best-selling authors and start-up innovators.

Georgetown University Social Entrepreneurship Competition
The purpose of the Georgetown Social Entrepreneurship Competition is to provide an outlet for Georgetown students to learn about social business and to work together to develop original and creative ideas. The competition is open to all Georgetown students, undergraduate and graduate.

Providing financial awards to the best business plans is not merely an incentive for participation, but allows for a legitimate mechanism for students to introduce their incredible ideas into the world. Beyond funding, this competition is about process--from asking students to think about businesses that incorporate social value, to developing proposals and receiving constructive feedback from faculty, peers, and mentors. Georgetown as a community benefits from the conceptual framework, forum of ideas, and publicity generated through the event.

Georgetown Entrepreneurship Summit
The Georgetown Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, introduces students and other participants to a variety of topics related to entrepreneurship through a series of lectures and panel discussions.
The event has featured keynote lectures by Larry Robertson, founder and principal of Lighthouse Consulting, on “The Meaning of Entrepreneurship”; Samer Hamadeh, founder of Vault.com, on the topic of “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly about Entrepreneurship”; and David McCourt, chairman and CEO of Granahan McCourt Capital on “Entrepreneurship: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me.”
Panel discussions cover such topics as Tech Entrepreneurs; Opportunities in Clean Technologies; The Total Package: Skin, Hair to Sole Consumer Goods, Beauty and Fashion; Minority Entrepreneurs; Social Entrepreneurship; and Investors View: How to Get Funding.
Students attending the event can also participate in an elevator pitch competition highlighting their own new business ideas.

MGMT-280 Entrepreneurship
This course covers the fundamental requirements and processes of new business formation. Students will work in teams to identify an idea for a new venture, explore market and conditions that will surround the new business, and finally plan start-up operations and project financials. In addition, the course examines requirements and characteristics of leadership for organizational start-up, sources of capital, methods of negotiation for capital or strategic alliance, and the fundamentals of good selling.

MGMT-370 Microenterprise Program Design
This course explores the basic concepts and methods of designing a microenterprise program. Microenterprises are generally defined as businesses with fewer than ten employees and that are owned and operated by low-income individuals or families. Microenterprise development programs provide services that support microentrepreneurs in the growth of their enterprises.

Course discussion and readings will review four basic levels in microenterprise program design for both domestic and international programs: characteristics of microentrepreneurs, affiliations of microentrepreneurs, the nature and resources of microenterprise service providers, and the microenterprise national and international policy environment. The student will be required to develop a design for a theoretical microenterprise project. Also, she/he will be required to complete a service-learning internship relating to microenterprise at an organization of their choice.

SOCI-168 Social Entrepreneurship/Change
What is a social entrepreneur? What makes them different from everyone else working for social justice? This course combines academics with work in the community to understand the concept, meet role models, and be hands-on in the creative process. A combination of theory, biography, guest speakers, simulations, journaling, research and class discussion give the student a foundation for their small team project working with a community-based organization where they will practice teamwork, solve real problems, and work hand in hand with local social entrepreneurs.

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business offers an undergraduate concentration in Marketing designed for students who expect to have a career in which marketing plays a central role. Those who have recently received a Marketing Concentration from the McDonough School of Business have taken jobs in brand management, revenue management, business development, consulting, marketing research, public relations, and advertising.

The courses in the Marketing Concentration provide the skills students need to excel in these career paths. The first skill is understanding the customer, which makes it easier to identify where value can be created. The second skill students learn is to deliver value to the customer by managing brand equity through new product development, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Finally, students who earn a Marketing Concentration learn how to manage the firm's ongoing relationships with its customers, channel members, suppliers, and competitors.

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