Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government

Student Opportunities

CHARTING A COURSE FOR KNOWLEDGE

Goizueta faculty deliver relevant coursework related to business-government relations topics on campus and in conjunction with The Washington Campus Programs and other classes.

Coursework and Opportunities

Washington Campus

Content designed and delivered at Emory by Goizueta faculty provides a strong foundation of knowledge building up to the student experience at The Washington Campus. This partnership ensures an optimal mix of academic learning and experiential learning in Washington, D.C. through The Washington Campus Programs. While in Washington D.C., students are able to interact directly with government officials and business leaders and discuss the nuances of cooperation and decision-making in this domain. Our partnership with The Washington Campus, a well-respected and established provider of current and relevant content bridging business, public policy, and government, enables unique courses. It is important to note that going forward, all programming offered at the Washington Campus facilities will be prominently indicated as Robson Program courses.
Current Courses

Course coverage within Goizueta is broad-based. In our Executive MBA (two formats with approximately 100 students per year), all students take a required course. For the Full-Time and Evening MBA, we offer elective offerings always with enrollments at capacity. In the future, we plan to deliver a senior seminar experience for our BBA students.
Student Fellowships

For students with a particular career or research interest in business-government policy issues, we have created John Robson Fellowships. Students have already been designated as such. These are MBA, BBA, and Undergraduate students assisting with research related to an aspect of the Program's work and who are mentored by one of the faculty members working in their area of interest.

Robson Program Students & Alumni

Current Research Fellows

Previous Research Fellows

Alumni Teaching Assistants

Emerson Riback 19BBA

How the U.S. Can Retain Primacy Over China in New Era of Great Power Competition

The world is undergoing tectonic, geopolitical shifts not seen in a generation. The unipolar moment that defined the post-Cold War world has come to an unspectacular end. As U.S. relative power declines, Europe remains stagnant, and China continues its rise, a new approach to U.S. grand strategy is urgently required to navigate and influence the new world order. The prevailing U.S. strategy to pursue liberal hegemony is no longer feasible, neither politically nor in actuality. Rather, a new U.S. grand strategy must be designed through an updated recognition of the United States’ current and future vital interests, a realistic assessment of its power in the coming multipolar world, and a clear-eyed understanding of how China’s rise reshapes the global, geopolitical chessboard.

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ACTIVE IN RESEARCH

Variety of research opportunities available for student fellows

One opportunity the Program provides is the ability for students to work as research fellows who are able to conduct research on various topics, ranging from social mobility to tracking the economic progress of countries in emerging markets.

Resources

The World Bank DataBank

DataBank is an analytical tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics, such as economic policy, debt, education, environment, financial sector, gender, health, infrastructure, poverty, private sector & trade, public sector, social protection & labor. Covers every nation in the world.

The International Data Base (IDB) of the U.S. Census Bureau

The IDB provides estimates and projections for 228 countries and aggregated regions which have populations of 5,000 or more. Population size (by single year of age and sex) and components of change (fertility, mortality, and migration) are provided from roughly 1950 through 2050, for each year.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Collects data on a variety of topics including the economy, trade, investment, finance, population, and employment. Includes some forecast data as well. Click on “Country” or “Topic”.

UNDP Human Development Indices and Indicators

Provides data on key human development indices and statistics. It includes an analysis of the state of human development—snapshots of current conditions as well as long-term trends in human development indicators across multiple dimensions and for every nation. The HDI’s measurement of national achievements and ranking comprises health, education and income.

International Data FRED

The economic service of the St. Louis FED.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Dynamics World Population Prospects 2024

The 2024 Revision of World Population Prospects provides population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the UN. The main results are presented in a series of Excel files displaying key demographic indicators for each nation, as well as a variety of aggregates such as development group, World Bank income group, geographic region, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), etc. Data cover the years 1950-2100.

Fragile States Index by The Fund for Peace (FFP)

The Fragile States Index (FSI) produced by The Fund for Peace (FFP), is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are outweighing a states’ capacity to manage those pressures. By highlighting pertinent vulnerabilities which contribute to the risk of state fragility, the Index — and the social science framework and the data analysis tools upon which it is built — makes political risk assessment and early warning of conflict accessible to policy-makers and the public at large. The strength of the FSI is its ability to distill millions of pieces of information into a form that is relevant as well as easily digestible and informative. Daily, FFP collects thousands of reports and information from around the world, detailing the existing social, economic and political pressures faced by each of the 178 countries analyzed.

Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International

The CPI scores and ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be by experts and business executives. It is a composite index, a combination of several surveys and assessments of corruption, collected by a variety of reputable institutions. The CPI is the most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on a variety of labor market indicators such as the unemployment rate, youth NEET rate, earnings, productivity, etc. for many nations.

The Freedom Index

Since 1973, Freedom House has assessed the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is used on a regular basis by policymakers, journalists, academics, activists, and many others. The Freedom in the World report is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for 195 countries and 15 territories. For each country and territory, Freedom in the World analyzes the electoral process, political pluralism and participation, the functioning of the government, freedom of expression and of belief, associational and organizational rights, the rule of law, and personal autonomy and individual rights.

Reuters news service

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news free of charge. Use the Search feature to find news on specific nations or topics.

Exchange Rate Data

Fiscal Data provides federal financial data. The Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service created Fiscal Data to consolidate federal financial data into one easy-to-use website. Fiscal Data offers data in machine-readable formats via file downloads and application programming interfaces (APIs).