Arthur Blank has a favorite T-shirt. It reads, “There is no finish line.” That unofficial motto embodies his drive to break new ground and continue to give back.
Brian Powers, photographer in the Terry College Office of Marketing and Communications, joined the crowd to capture images from the Georgia Bulldogs national championship parade in Athens on Jan. 15.
New skill sets, new technologies, new ways to work with teams: Business professionals have a lot to learn to thrive in these demanding times.
Podcasting is one of the fastest-growing ways of communicating and, thanks to a partnership, there is a new studio on campus available to produce podcasts.
After almost two years balancing work-from-home schedules, proctoring remote classrooms and dealing with a global pandemic, a group of almost 300 businesswomen came together to celebrate their resilience.
A town’s motto says a lot about a place. Atlanta is a “City Too Busy to Hate,” while Athens is “Life Unleashed.” And now, with the help of a dedicated student team from the Terry College’s Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA), Georgia’s Colquitt County is “Where Life Grows.”
If she’s going to design a space for you, Erika Ward (BBA ’01) wants to nail it. And to do that, she asks for three hours of your time beforehand.
Effective leadership impacts every part of an organization, but there is still plenty to learn about what makes leaders effective, or even what effectiveness looks like.
The Georgia economy is on track to exceed its pre-pandemic peak and make a full recovery by the end of 2022, recovering faster than the national economy.
Five Georgia football players teamed up to take advantage of their newfound NIL privileges to help others and created the DGD Fund, which raises money for five beneficiaries, each selected by one of the five Bulldogs, with all monies equally distributed.
What does it mean to live sustainably? At a basic level, the concept evokes individual responsibility: Recycle those bottles. Join a carpool or, better yet, bike to work. Eat less meat. And please, avoid leisurely showers.
At the request of University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead, the University Cabinet voted unanimously to recommend that two facilities at the University of Georgia be named for some of the institution’s earliest and most distinguished African American graduates: a new residence hall in honor of Harold A. Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo and Kerry Rushin Miller, the first African American students to enroll as freshmen and complete their undergraduate degrees.
William Ross’ sense of fairness was apparent in his first business venture, a pine straw spreading business he started at age 16. It was successful enough that he was able to pay his workers $20 an hour, well over the minimum wage.
In the last year, Sweden has launched a digital version of its Krona and China has piloted a digital Yuan, but a U.S. Federal Reserve official pumped the brakes on the idea of rolling out a digital currency in the United States.
As Georgia emerges from two years of economic uncertainty, University of Georgia Terry College of Business experts will address Georgia’s recovery from the COVID-19 recession, the booming housing market and what to expect in the year to come at the 39th annual Georgia Economic Outlook series.
People have been making carpets for 5,000 years, so when Jay Henry explains that he’s the director of innovation for a company that manufactures carpets he sometimes gets a quizzical look.
In the last two decades, federal regulations tried to build more oversight into the roles of corporate boards of directors. There’s just one problem: it’s not a job board members want.
Rob Arnett was a young marketing research associate at Frito-Lay tasked with crunching data on ways to better market Tostitos to hungry consumers.
Before he could say a word, Greg Davis Jr. was in radio. “My father started the company a month and a day after I was born,” he says of Davis Broadcasting Inc., where he now serves in an executive role as vice president and Atlanta market manager. “I was born into radio,” he adds with a chuckle.
When Larry Richardson began the Executive MBA program at the Terry College, he wanted to transition from years of work in emergency medical services to the business side of public safety.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Adam C. Johnson was in his sophomore classroom at T.F. Riggs High School in Pierre, S.D., watching the television as the terrorist attacks played out halfway across the country. That moment sealed Johnson’s commitment to serve.
After dark on the day he turned 22 years of age, Harold Storey (BBA ’42) bedded down with a few buddies in the basement of a French house near the Moselle River.
This fall proved a memorable season in what was already an extraordinary life for Dr. David Quintero.
Class Notes for Terry College of Business alumni from Fall/Winter 2021.