Terry dedicates the M. Douglas and V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights, students gain experience in sales, entrepreneurship, and the creative economy, and Georgia 2025 Economic Outlook projects steady growth in 2025

Georgia’s economy is projected to grow 2.4% in 2025 — a slowdown from the 3.1% the state saw in 2024, according to the 2025 Economic Outlook presented on Dec. 6. However, the state GDP is still projected to grow faster than the nation’s. 

Two startups developed through the UGA Entrepreneurship Program — Gently Soap and Skunk Skins — are garnering attention for their promise to make the world a sweeter-smelling place.

Megan Moroney (BBA ’20) returned to the UGA Music Business Program to discuss the hard work of show biz and how her classes at the Terry College set the stage for her music career. [Gallery]

The Georgia Bulldog Angel Network, an entrepreneurial showcase founded to help build Georgia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, held its inaugural meeting in September at the Terry College of Business Executive Education Center in Atlanta.

Pam Rogers (BBA ’82) spent her life in risk management, and the way she sees it — so has everyone. The key to having a great life and a successful business is not to minimize risk. It’s to optimize it.

Terry College professional sales students wrap up their capstone sales class each semester with a sales pitch contest. The contest allows students to network with sales professionals and gain realistic experience. 

Georgia’s creative industry is a $4 billion, 60,000-job segment of the state’s economy. Terry College graduate students saw the inner workings of that creative ecosystem after touring Trilith Studios in Fayetteville. 

Senior Lecturer Marty Parker has turned LinkedIn into an extension of his classroom where his students — and the business management community — can come for advice on supply chains, leadership, and even mental well-being.

For the second year, the UGA Entrepreneurship Program Health and Wellness Pitch Contest showcased student-founded businesses built to help improve customer health. 

While the Georgia Bulldogs were on the field in Jacksonville, the Terry College’s Sales Dawgs were also in Florida competing for bragging rights at the “Collegiate World Cup of Sales.”

Monroe native and 2024 MIS graduate Hannah Brown found her passion for cybersecurity as a UGA CyberArch intern. With CyberArch, she led a team of students helping institutions across rural Georgia strengthen their cybersecurity practices.

The UGA Selig Center for Economic Growth found Georgia’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have an annual $1.6 billion impact on the state economy. “That’s the great thing about HBCUs, it’s not a one-year impact like perhaps holding something like a major sporting event, like a Super Bowl, or even hosting the Olympics,” Selig Center Director Jeff Humphreys told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The HBCU impacts recur year after year and tend to increase over time.” 

After Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton hit Florida within a month of each other this fall, U.S. News & World Report turned to Terry College associate professor Marc Ragin to discuss the implications for the insurance market. “This is ... certainly going to cause insurers to be concerned about continuing to insure in the market,” Ragin said. Average home insurance premiums in Florida surged nearly 60% between 2019 and 2023, and homeowners are worried that their companies may stop insuring them.