Terry News

Marisa Pagnattaro, professor of legal studies in the Terry College, earned a $5,000 grant to create an innovation course called “Apple Inc.’s Global Business Strategies: Balancing Law, Ethics and Human Rights” that could begin in the fall.

I am finishing up a semester-long exchange program at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University in Beijing, CHINA. There are over 100 other students here from around the globe.

The Selig Center, known for its annual “Georgia Economic Outlook” forecast and luncheon (see “Events” below), has released its annual minority buying power report.

Now in its 4th year, the MBA Travels to China program attracted 30 full-time and evening students to spend spring break traveling together to Shanghai and Beijing, where they visited top companies and cultural sites.

This semester the IB Society has hosted two IB alums, Lyle Gore and Scott Borders, for speaking engagements. Lyle Gore, a manager from Atlantix Global, kicked off the semester by sharing his unique international business experiences to a standing-room-only crowd of students.

Beginning this fall, Terry undergraduates and MBA students will be welcome to spend one semester in Vienna, Austria at Wirtschafts Universitat Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

Temitayo Ige is no stranger to international studies. Originally from Nigeria, Ige has been living in the US for the last four years and studying at UGA in the Management Information Systems major.

IB Society and Terry Office of Diversity Relations organized the Terry Cup Kickball Tournament this year, held April 9 on the UGA intramural fields.

Dale Goodhue was selected by the Terry College of Business as the sole recipient of the 2012 Terry Outstanding Faculty Researcher. Janine Aronson received a 25-year service award by Terry. Dave Chatterjee was reelected as Chairman of the SIM Atlanta Chapter for a fifth term.

Marie-Claude Boudreau took over as the MIS department head mid-year, replacing Dale Goodhue. Maric has been a member of the MIS faculty for about a decade and is the fourth person to serve as department head since the founding of the program.

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