MBAs Take Lead in Crafting Economic Plan for D.C.

You're receiving this newsletter because you've requested it from us. Having trouble reading this email? View it on your browser or View mobile version. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe. Share:             MBA Express Jun 20, 2012 This Week's Top Story MBAs Take Lead in Crafting Economic Plan for D.C. A group of MBAs in Washington, D.C., are getting a chance to do something few business school students do: chart the economic future of a city More Top Stories The MBA Life: Northwestern A look at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management through the eyes of a two current MBA students CFA Gains Momentum at B-Schools The number of finance students seeking CFA certification has surged, and now a new program will help them find schools with CFA-friendly curricula Finding A Job How I Got Here: The NFL Network's Kim Williams The football network's chief operating officer has come far since her student days at Thunderbird. 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If you need other assistance, please contact Customer Service or contact: Dustine Peterson Bloomberg Businessweek Customer Rights 2005 Lakewood Drive, Boone, IA 50036 dpeterson@cds-global.com To learn more about how BusinessWeek.com applies this policy, you can contact our Marketing Department. This week in MBA Express Dear Reader: It should come as no surprise these days when a group of MBAs does something, well, pretty amazing. But even by those standards, the task being undertaken by a group of students from Washington, D.C.-area B-schools is fairly extraordinary, not so much in terms of the work involved, but in the potential magnitude of its impact. As Alison Damast reports, the students are helping to craft a new economic development plan for the nation's capital-they're charting the economic future not of a company or a nonprofit, but of a city. It's a city that faces some big, and somewhat unique, challenges, not the least of which is a reliance on federal government jobs-an engine of economic development that no longer seems as reliable as it used to. Can they pull it off? Stay tuned. Louis Lavelle, Business Schools Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek Louis Lavelle Advertisement Business School Resources Business Schools Rankings and Profiles Tool: Compare Businesss Schools Business Schools Calendar Blog: Getting In Advertisement Unsubscribe Manage Subscriptions Change your E-Mail Marketing Department Privacy Policy Terms of Use Copyright 2009-2012 by BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED