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Alumnus Reinvents Restaurant Business Model to Support Front Line Workers and Employees

When Dan Simons was forced to change his business model less than two months ago, it wasn’t in the plans. For the last 12 years, Simons, GWSB BBA ’92, and his partners have been building and expanding their restaurant company. What started as a single Founding Farmers restaurant in D.C. on Pennsylvania Ave in 2008 […]

When a Second Semester Brainstorm Becomes a Full-blown Business

  If necessity is the mother of invention, then The Pocket Palette—a full face makeup kit for women on the go—is a baby conceived on a train ride.  Some years back, The Pocket Palette’s founder and CEO, Lynda T. C. Peralta, GWSB MBA ‘17, didn’t want to wake up early enough to do her makeup […]

GW Businesswoman Makes Fashion Affordable

Richa Nihalani, GWSB BBA’12, based her business, Fashionest, on the fashion savvy of today’s Millennials and uses the digital marketing skills she learned at GW to give the trendy women of tomorrow stylish (and affordable) jewelry. “Fashionest was born of a bold, beautiful principle: fine fashion jewelry doesn’t have to break the bank,” Richa explains. […]