April was to be the busiest month. The Terry College had prepared a packed calendar for this first spring with the Business Learning Community complete. Guest speakers and Employers of the Day were scheduled to dole out career advice (and sometimes chicken biscuits).
The coronavirus should have been noxious to a business that depends on elbows resting on bars, revelers standing closer together than six feet and marketing tours that help drive business. But Craig Moore (BBA ’00) has been an entrepreneur since he was 7 years old.
In times of crisis, inspiration comes from a variety of sources. Kayla Hittig (BBA ’11, MBA ’15) found hers in the Atlanta sewing community and a call to arms (and hands) to sew for health care workers.
As dignitaries gathered beneath a giant white tent pitched across the Coca-Cola Plaza on a sweltering September morning, a big smile crossed Sanford Orkin’s face as he thought, “I used to sleep here.”
Martee Horne is on the move. After 22 years at the University of Georgia with 20 at the Terry College, Horne is retiring in January, leaving a post and office she built from the ground up.
Ryan Leveille wants the ambitious business student to look at their résumé upside down. Leveille insists the right-side-up, conformist résumé obliterates what should be illuminated.
Failures.