As the decade closed, the McGowan Fellows—10 top-ranked students from 10 top-ranked MBA programs—met with alumni and renowned faculty and business leaders at the yearly McGowan Symposium on Business Leadership & Ethics. The subject: leadership in a VUCA (volatile,...
First coined by the U.S. military, VUCA—meaning volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous—can describe conditions in a war zone or a world sped up by lightning-fast media and complicated by unexpected tactical shifts, economic turns, and changing priorities. In the...
After presenting at the 2018 McGowan Symposium on Business Leadership & Ethics, four national experts sat down to address crucial ethical and leadership questions, including: How can business models drive social change? What have changes in higher education—think...
When the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund proposed that its 2017 class of Fellows figure out how to get health insurance companies to cover the McGowan-supported initiative Eat Well, Love Better, Move More (ELM), the Fellows rose to the task with creative energy and...
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund has announced the 10 recipients of its prestigious 2016 fellowship awards. Fellows hail from the nation’s leading graduate business programs; they’re top-tier second-year MBA students, who exhibit outstanding leadership potential...
