Giving back, setting a bigger table, and celebrating a year of accomplishments. |
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Nothing says the holidays like family gathered around a Christmas dinner table featuring a Honey Baked Ham. The brand’s history has helped shape the warm culture of its stores, now guided by Terry alumni Jim Dinkins (BBA ’84) and Linda van Rees (BBA ’85). |
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Jason Matthews, a longtime senior lecturer in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the Terry College, was appointed director of the Full-Time MBA and Master of Science in Business Analytics programs. |
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Doug Ivester, former chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company and long-standing supporter of UGA, will deliver the fall undergraduate Commencement address at UGA on Dec. 12 at Stegeman Coliseum. |
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The Terry College of Business Sales Dawgs professional selling team brought home the Collegiate World Cup of Sales from the International Collegiate Sales Competition. |
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This fall, UGA Entrepreneurship students explored NASA’s treasure trove of patents and developed ideas to bring these technologies to market through a collaboration with NASA. |
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Biomedical engineering PhD student took home $10,000 at the Entrepreneurship Program Health and Wellness Pitch Competition to help move her seizure-sensing wearable device to market.
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Since 2017, Full-Time MBA students have worked with Athens-area nonprofits through the Nonprofit Board Fellows Program. This fall, students and nonprofit leaders celebrated these partnerships with the program’s inaugural match day. |
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Chip Chambers (BS ’18, AB ’18) was well known on UGA’s campus for his game-day suspenders and megaphone, but he found his life’s work in a white coat and stethoscope serving patients in rural South Carolina. |
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New research from the Department of Management suggests that invitations to after-work events can have positive and negative effects, depending on the individual. |
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The UGA School of Social Work and the Terry College of Business have launched two stackable MBA programs that join strategic excellence and social innovation.
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Marketing and public relations student Taryn Hooks still remembers the feelings she had as a little girl walking up to meet a cheerleader in uniform. Today, she’s inspiring a new generation of girls as a Georgette. |
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Discipler, a platform developed by a pre-business management student which handles intake, matching and follow-up for church mentorship, won the top prize at the UGA Entrepreneurship Idea Accelerator. |
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Like many siblings, Smitha Ganeshan (BS ’14) and Shreya Ganeshan (BS ’18, AB ’18) have plenty in common. Each sister studied at UGA as a Foundation Fellow, led tours through UGA’s Visitors Center, and followed an interest in technology into careers in data science in the Bay Area. |
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Just in time for office holiday parties, management professor Joanna Lin’s work on after-hours team building was picked up by Forbes. Lin has found that the pressure to be social can hurt the performance of some employees. “We always think that social activity is so great, right? If you’re social with your co-workers, you feel energized and connected. But those invitations are not necessarily always good,” Lin said.
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Jeff Humphreys, director of the UGA Selig Center for Economic Growth, discussed with Metro Atlanta CEO the economic impact generated by the Georgia Ports Authority’s inland port. He noted that statewide port activity supports 307,000 jobs in the Atlanta metro area. “Georgia’s ports are one of its strongest economic engines, fostering the development of virtually every industry,” Humphreys said.
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