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.
Passings of Terry College of Business alumni from April 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
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.
Education has always been at the core of Andrea Smith’s life.
Employers who support new mothers when they return to work reduce the mothers’ stress level, as well as the stress level of their partners.
Using artificial intelligence and robots to support teams will become more and more common in the workplace and in the military.
Whether it’s because of COVID cancellations, labor shortages or increased demand, America’s supply chain system is choking.
Faculty accolades for the Terry College of Business in Fall/Winter 2021.
Terry College of Business professor Elena Karahanna was awarded the title of Distinguished Fellow by the INFORMS Information Systems Society.
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.
When an employee breaks the rules, what do you do? Enforce the policy, issue a slap on the wrist or look the other way?
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.