Class Notes for Terry College of Business alumni for Spring/Summer 2021
Passings for Terry College of Business for Spring/Summer 2021
Fueled by pandemic lockdowns and a consumer preference for more virtual interactions with businesses, companies are making the choice: Go digital or get left behind.
Hotfoot Plumbing, built on a border town in the Arizona desert, was the center of gravity for the Gonzales family.
Just because international travel was curtailed during the pandemic doesn’t mean international business ground to a halt — and neither did international business education.
When it comes to worker well-being, private equity firms aren’t usually seen as allies. But it turns out workers are often safer after their companies have been bought out.
Employees can experience longing for jobs they left or career paths they didn’t pursue. The lingering feelings can lead to distraction and poor job performance.
Funerals cost $7,200 on average, but little is known about what motivates the spending decisions associated with funerals.
For the third year in a row, a Ph.D. student from the Terry College’s Department of Marketing has won the William O. Bearden Doctoral Student Research Award as part of the Southeast Marketing Symposium.
As an assistant professor of management information systems, Carolina Alves de Lima Salge studies social networks, chatbots and computer algorithms in her research. Wrangling big data sets is the name of the game in her world.
Faculty accolades for Terry College of Business in Spring/Summer 2021.
University of Georgia senior Arden Farr, an Honors student from Memphis, Tennessee, has been selected for the fourth cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, a global graduate-level program at Stanford University.
For years, Terry College of Business professor Tina Carpenter has led her forensic accounting students through a cleverly designed whodunit to help teach forensic accounting.
When students can put their newly acquired knowledge into practice, everyone wins.
Superheroes blend into the world. It’s how they get the job done when trouble arises. Only a select few know about their true identity and full worth — if everyone knew who they were, they wouldn’t get a moment’s rest. They are there when we need them, and oftentimes stop problems before they start.
Several word suggestions appear when typing “Maria Taylor” into a web browser, but three that don’t are “certified public accountant.” It’s not for a lack of trying on her part.
A team of student workers at the Terry College of Business received the top group honor in the annual Student Employee of the Year awards program, co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Career Center.
When most people think of public transportation they envision populous, metropolitan areas. Not Moultrie, Georgia.
When you don’t have a home to store your belongings, a backpack is more than just a bag. It’s a mobile pantry, practical storage and some semblance of security.
Has stock trading become too much like a video game? One Terry College of Business student is betting his “tendies” that the parallels between gaming and trading are here to stay.
When you throw a glass bottle in the recycling bin, what happens to it? Glass is notoriously hard to recycle, but student startup KLAW Industries has developed a way to turn those old bottles into a material used in concrete manufacturing.
It’s not easy being green. Businesses often need outside help to make their operations more environmentally sustainable.
Last spring, Georgia softball player Mary Wilson Avant was in the same boat as thousands of student-athletes across the country after learning their seasons were shuttered by the COVID-19 virus.
Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, people may be more willing to trust a computer program than their fellow humans, especially if a task becomes too challenging, according to new research from data scientists at the University of Georgia.