Corporate Partnerships 

Partnering with the Baratta Center

Corporate partnerships are core to the Baratta Center’s mission. The challenges that define global business today — navigating geopolitical competition, harnessing AI, managing complex supply chains, and investing across borders — cannot be understood from a classroom alone. We invite leading companies to engage with the center: shaping how the next generation of globally minded leaders is educated while gaining direct access to some of the most talented undergraduate business students in the country.

Partners can connect with students and faculty throughout the academic journey. Companies can sponsor case competitions, co-design decision-making simulations using their own real-world dilemmas, and support our internship program and student fellowships — creating a direct pipeline to Georgetown McDonough’s top students, trained to think geopolitically, act globally, and lead with both ambition and conscience. Partners can also host students during our Global Treks, which bring students on behind-the-scenes visits to corporate sites around the world.

Beyond student engagement, partners of the Baratta Center can sponsor flagship events and CEO roundtables; contribute executive speakers to our programming; engage in applied research collaborations with faculty; and nominate senior leaders for visiting fellow roles. The result is a sustained relationship with one of the world’s great universities — at the frontier of global business education.

Ways Corporate Partners Can Engage

• Sponsor Student Internships — Host Global Business Fellows for summer internships or 6-week internships during the spring semester, where students tackle a project that helps your team
• Host a Trek — Welcome student delegations to your corporate headquarters or offices for a behind-the-scenes experience
• Speak in the Classroom or Curriculum — Send executives to engage directly with students in courses, workshops, or the Global Business Fellows program
• Sponsor or Co-host a Conference or Roundtable — Take a leadership or presenting role in one of our thematic convenings or CEO roundtables
• Nominate a Visiting Fellow — Embed a senior leader from your organization in the center’s intellectual community for a defined period
• Sponsor the Global Business Experience — Support international immersive learning opportunities that give students firsthand exposure to global markets by sponsoring a 6-week consulting project that helps your team
• Sponsor a Case Competition — Bring a real-world business problem to the Center’s annual or thematic competitions and evaluate student solutions firsthand