Construction of the new Business Learning Community may have started six years ago in 2013, but the Terry College of Business has been building on its deeply rooted history for more than 100 years.
Americo Manufacturing Co. got its start in the basement of their family home, all of 50 years ago. But to carry on success, the Rones brothers had to reinvent their father’s business around an ever-changing model of environmental sustainability.
An employee at CentricsIT used the company’s 21st-century Suggestion Box — anonymous email to CEO Derek Odegard — to lodge a complaint about the malfunctioning toaster in the lunchroom.
Jim Price, Richard Stamper, and Jim Scott — primed almost four decades ago in the unofficial entrepreneurial incubator of UGA’s College of Business Administration — will tell you the soundtrack of a successful entrepreneur is not trumpets blaring, but of wheels grinding.
Walking into Studio 225 is like entering a startup culture only imaginable on a hip show about Silicon Valley, except this one takes place in downtown Athens.