Mission and Vision
The Baratta Center for Global Business Education is the preeminent center for developing principled, globally minded leaders equipped to navigate and shape a world defined by geopolitical competition and technological change.
Drawing on Georgetown’s world-class expertise across the McDonough School of Business and the School of Foreign Service, the Baratta Center takes an interdisciplinary, applied, and AI-forward approach to global business education that is built for the complexities of an increasingly multipolar world. The center also creates programming and actively supports the Baratta Global Business Fellows (GBF).
The Baratta Center for Global Business Education at Georgetown University
What We Believe
The Baratta Center is built on a simple premise: that today’s most pressing business challenges are inseparable from geopolitics, and that the most effective global leaders in any sector are those who can connect the dots between power, policy, and economics.
Geopolitics is central to the challenges of every multinational company, finance department, and multilateral institution operating today. It is a challenge that traditional business education has been slow to confront. The Baratta Center is closing the gap between what business education typically provides and what global leadership actually demands.
The following pillars support our approach to global business education:
- Analytical rigor and geopolitical literacy are complementary and necessary.
- The best learning happens when students engage with real problems, real decisions, and real leaders.
- Training the whole person — equipping students not only with skills, but with judgment and conscience — is what distinguishes a Georgetown education.
- In a world of accelerating complexity, the leaders who thrive will be those who can read the landscape clearly, act decisively under uncertainty, and bring others with them.
A Uniquely Modern Platform
Georgetown University has been educating global leaders since 1789 at the intersection of business, policy, and global affairs to meet the demands of both government and industry. That heritage is the foundation on which the Baratta Center’s identity is built.
Georgetown’s distinctive strength is the convergence of three uniquely combined assets:
- Collaboration: The School of Foreign Service (one of the world’s leading programs in international affairs) is a natural intellectual partner to the McDonough School of Business, enabling a richness of interdisciplinary collaboration rare in business education.
- Location: Washington, D.C., puts students and faculty in direct proximity to the institutions and decisions shaping global business and policy.
- Jesuit Values: Georgetown’s Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person and emphasizing leadership in service to others grounds the center’s efforts in intellectual and moral purpose.
The Baratta Center draws on all three assets, and capitalizes on the support of proud Hoya alumni leading institutions across every major market.
Who We Serve
Global Business Fellows and Baratta Center faculty and staff enjoying a barbecue cookout
The Baratta Center serves students first. Our programs are designed to accelerate the development of the next generation of global leaders: giving them frameworks, exposure, networks, and judgment to lead throughout careers within an unpredictable world. We measure our success by how our students lead when the world gets complicated.
We also engage deeply with the practitioners shaping the environment our students will enter: executives, investors, diplomats, policymakers, and multilateral officials navigating geopolitical complexity in real time. That engagement keeps our education current, connects students to meaningful opportunities, and contributes to the broader conversation about the future of global business and governance.
Our Team
The Baratta Center’s mission to develop principled, globally minded business leaders is supported by renowned faculty from across Georgetown University’s nationally ranked schools, as well as our advisory board, made up of business executives and leaders from major multinational organizations.