Terry College alumni work on Wall Street and spark innovation across Georgia; faculty and students embrace analytics as a keystone of business education
Whoever dubbed New York the “City That Never Sleeps” must have been an investment banker. Terry alumni Kevin Wong, Jasmine Chen and William O’Gorman share their working weeks on Wall Street and how the Terry College prepared them.
Terry College of Business photographers Brian Powers and Richard Hammcapture hundreds of photos of students, faculty and alumni each year. Here are the best from 2024.
Aaron Luque (MBA ’16) launched EnviroSpark Energy Solutions in 2014. Today, the company boasts more than 8,500 electric vehicle charging stations and 150 employees across North America.
Saajan Patel (BBA ’20) opened Prince Market in Athens as the everyday grocery store for the thousands of people who moved into the nine new apartment complexes in downtown Athens.
Executive Education at the Terry College serves industry leaders in Atlanta and beyond, bringing in participants for customized training on a wealth of business practices.
The Terry College strategic plan prioritizes efforts to expand and enhance analytics instruction across the college’s academic programs, allowing graduates to make data-driven decisions for organizations.
Through Terry College’s International Business COIL Program, students teamed up with their counterparts from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile, to analyze international business cases and become better global teammates.
John Campbell, Elena Karahanna, Troy Montgomery, Terence Saldanha and Erin Towery received Outstanding Faculty Awards from the Terry College for their contributions to teaching, research and service.
Management Information Systems Professor Emeritus Pat McKeown died on Dec. 5. McKeown played a major role building the reputation of the the college’s MIS Department as the founding department head.
IN THE NEWS
Car insurance rates climb even as inflation cools. Rob Hoyt, the Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair of Insurance and Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, told Marketplace the problem may have more to do with modern cars than the car insurance market. “Part of the problem is some of the minor accidents end up escalating in cost pretty significantly,” Hoyt said. “There’s a whole lot of work that has to go on by the technicians to reset a lot of that technology after it’s been repaired.”
Terry College Dean Ben Ayers introduced the Selig Center for Economic Growth’s 2025 Economic Outlook on Dec. 6. Georgia’s economy will grow by 2.4% in 2025 compared to 3.1% in 2024, Ayers told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “That (slowdown) reflects the pivot of the Federal Reserve,” which raised its benchmark rates to slow the economy and cooled inflation, Ayers said. “Because the 2025 economic slowdown is due to a deliberate policy shift and not economic shock or factors outside our control, we think the slowdown will be gradual and not last long.”
