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In Focus | Cities After Great Disasters
Robert Olshansky and a colleague had nearly completed their multi-year assessment of how a catastrophic event like the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake would affect a major U.S. city when Hurricane Katrin...
Professional Certificate Programs Respond to Rapidly Evolving Job Market
Universities don’t usually think of their students as customers—and with good reason. Just the classroom experience alone involves complex human interactions that, ideally, result in something more pr...
Certificate Program Explores Causes and Effects of Global Migration
It was a difficult, complex topic, and some members of the audience were confused. Why was this flood of asylum seekers and refugees—it was often called a “flood” in the media—landing on the shores of...
The Future of Project Management
This article originally appeared on the Terrapin Consulting Blog.The future of project management is agile, global, and data-enabled. Successful project managers must be flexible, analytical, and ...
For Product Managers, the Key Is Creating User-Friendly, ‘Human-Centered’ Designs
It’s called the “waterfall” process, and it’s a common method businesses use to develop new products. Clear and straightforward, it flows from start to finish along a designated path, with minimal dis...
Georgetown Students, French Nonprofit, Work to Support the World’s Poor
The East Asian representative was impressed: Just who were those expert American consultants, and how was ATD Fourth World—a French antipoverty group that operates around the world, but on a very limi...
Soft Skills? Power Skills? Whatever You Call Them, They’re Needed in Tech
In his job as a lead web developer for the U.S. Mint, Nathan Wallace makes a point of listening closely to his clients and colleagues.Then he goes a step further.“Sometimes, what they need is ...
In Focus | Vaccinations
The story is familiar now, but still unsettling. A respected scientific journal publishes a study suggesting that childhood vaccines might cause autism. The study cannot be replicated, and the journal...
In Focus | Trade War
When it comes to the battle over tariffs and trade, “We’re waging war on the wrong enemy,” says Craig O’Conner, an instructor in Georgetown University’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program. He...
In Focus | Domestic Terrorism
What is domestic terrorism, and why is it so difficult to combat? Here, Simon Cleveland, Ph.D., faculty director of Georgetown University’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program, puts thos...
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