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.
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.
During Jason Hedrick’s first year in Terry’s Full-Time MBA program, the former U.S. Army Aviation Officer discovered two surprises. The first was finding so many veterans in his classes, and second, that there was no social organization in place to help them get to know one other.
Five researchers at the Terry College of Business will have projects funded this fall through the college’s inaugural round of Business, Systems, and Technology Innovation Research seed grants.
Chuck Kinnebrew, one of the first five Black football players at the University of Georgia, has broken new ground his whole life. But after 50 years of pioneering firsts, it came time to pass the torch.
The Executive MBA Program at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is ranked one of the nation’s best in a global survey of EMBA programs published by the Financial Times.
“No-makeup” makeup sounds like an oxymoron. But ask anyone in the beauty industry, which is valued at $445 billion, and they’ll tell you a good chunk of those photos tagged #nomakeup online actually require multiple cosmetics to look so “natural.”
For several years now, large investment firms have used public proclamations, like BlackRock’s “Dear CEO” letters, to signal their commitment to corporate social responsibility. New research shows the companies these firms invest in are picking up the signal and repeating the message.