Program Spotlights
2012
Dan Cathy’s Bag of Leadership
Armed with a barrage of props, Chick-fil-A president and COO Dan Cathy shared his lessons in leadership with students enrolled in an entrepreneurship class at Terry. He talked about Chick-fil-A’s current challenges of maintaining a balance between quality, service and the bottom line while growing his business.
Terry Professors in D.C.
When sweeping financial reforms brought the federal government into the insurance business, two Terry professors trekked to Washington, D.C. to teach policymakers the ins and outs of the industry.
Real Estate Case Competition
A team of Terry real estate MBAs won the NAIOP School Challenge in April with a plan to transform a crime-infested, southwest Atlanta corridor into an industrial epicenter.
2011
Terry Sales Competition
The atmosphere around the Terry Sales Competition has some similarities to another fall sport – those college football all-star games. In both cases, the people doing the hiring are scouting talent.
Next Top Entrepreneur
William Harper (MBA ‘08) and Christian Allen (MBA ‘08) have used Next Top Entrepreneur as a vehicle to give back to Terry and invest in startups at the same time.
Team 14h30
Terry Entrepreneur-in-Residence Mark “Dill” Driscoll is offering UGA students the kind of mentoring, coupled with hands-on work-place experiences, that are the pre-requisites to success in the business world.
2010
Terry Sales Competition
Held in late October, close to Halloween, the Terry Sales Competition tests students’ ability to overcome their fears and anxiety as much as it tests their salesmanship.
Foundations First
Beginning in the fall of 2010, Terry’s undergraduate program will be among the first major business schools adopting an innovative cohort model the college has named “Foundations First.”
2009 Spotlights
Boys and Girls Club
UGA professors and local record producers designed an $85,000 recording studio for a local Boys & Girls Club, and the Music Business Certificate Program is dispatching its students to show the youngsters the ropes.
America’s Next Top Entrepreneur
UGA students from all over campus, 114 in all, came to the Student Learning Center last November for a chance to be a part of "American Idol" — Terry style. The occasion was the inaugural event of UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur, a campus–wide competition that is the brainchild of Terry entrepreneurship program director Chris Hanks (BBA ’90), who says students quickly learned how much skill and stamina is required to transform creative ideas into a successful marketplace product.
Terry Business Academy
The Terry Business Academy is a highly selective, pre-collegiate program for high school students who demonstrate a strong interest in business and entrepreneurship. In its inaugural year, TBA attracted more than 20 Georgia high school students to campus this spring for an up–close–and–personal look at what the Terry College has to offer prospective business school majors.
The Cayle Project
Cayle Bywater had a simple desire to help people, says her friend and classmate Beth Daniell, who frequently carpooled with Bywater to take evening courses at UGA’s Gwinnett campus in the Master of Internet Technology program.
UGA STARTUPs
UGA STARTUPs is a monthly event at the Terry Executive Education Center and we put together panels of experts from contacts I have in the venture capital community. It’s informal and highly discussion oriented with the goal of giving them tools and resources they need to actually launch their business without an ulterior motive to sell products and services.
2008 Spotlights
CPA Exam Pass Rates
It’s a 14-hour right of passage split into four parts. It tests knowledge, organization, and expression through its battery of questions. Those who pass each section with a minimum score of 75 percent earn the initials signifying their technical excellence like a badge of honor. It is the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) licensing examination, and its difficulty is so renowned that the long–running joke among accountants is that CPA exam centers serve as their profession’s unofficial reunion place.
2007 Spotlights
Certified Financial Planners Program
The Executive Program for Financial Planning Certification offered by the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business is a registered program of the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards Inc. The Terry program, which is taught at the Executive Education Center in Atlanta, offers a unique advantage over conventional 18–month pre–certification programs available elsewhere.
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