Terry College students share the magic of reading, introduce new tech ideas, and welcome top finance students for SMIF’s annual Stock Pitch Competition
ILA Leonard Leadership Scholars dedicated their time and skills to help nonprofits — such as former UGA Bulldog and New England Patriot Malcolm Mitchell’s Share the Magic — thrive.
The Full-Time MBA ranked 11th among public universities in the U.S. by the Financial Times, which judged Georgia’s MBA as the No. 1 value for the money globally for the second straight year.
KBH Industrial — headed by Terry alumnus Tarun Ganeriwal (MBA ’09) — placed first in UGA’s 2025 Bulldog 100. This year, 48 businesses on the Bulldog 100 list included Terry alumni.
Changing weather patterns are straining property insurance markets. Terry College researcher Marc Ragin studies what the industry needs to do to protect homes and communities.
Atlanta YMCA CEO Lauren Koontz (BBA ’96) welcomed the third class of UGA Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA) Leadership Dawgs on Feb. 28. The program provides leadership training to UGA alumni statewide.
As a project manager for label licensing with TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Sara Berman (BBA ’17) sets the soundtrack for thousands of TikTok dance trends and fit checks.
Terry College’s Student Managed Investment Fund hosted 15 teams for its 2025 Stock Pitch Competition. A record 109 teams from 55 universities applied to participate.
Terry Trailblazers returned to campus in February to inspire today’s students to give back, create community and take full advantage of the opportunities in front of them.
Recent UGA graduates’ novel pool cleaning technology won $10,000 at the fourth annual UGA Venture Prize. A group travel company and horror festival series came in second and third, respectively.
As the career development specialist for Terry College’s Full-Time MBA Program, Jiwon Park uses his knowledge to prepare students for the obstacles they may face when applying for jobs.
Rachel Perry (BBA ’93), chief innovation officer at Aon and UGA Alumni Board affinity committee chair, has spent decades mentoring students to help them find and reach their goals.
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Regulatory agencies enacted various laws in the past two decades to force hospitals to post transparent pricing. But according to an article in the University of Pennsylvania’s The Regulatory Review based on the work of legal studies professor Greg Day, most medical pricing is still opaque. In Day’s article, published in The Washington University Law Review in 2024, he argues opaque medical pricing should be regulated as a matter of anti-trust law. Obscuring pricing, he writes, hinders competition and leads to higher prices by eliminating any incentive for health care providers to compete on price.
So far, seven states passed right-to-repair laws that guarantee consumers the right to fix their software-reliant smartphones, vacuums and tractors without repercussion from manufacturers. Terry College MIS professor and department head Jerry Kane argued in the MIT Sloan Management Review that this is a turning point in the tech products industry. “The emerging regulatory landscape presents an opportunity for technology manufacturers to redefine their relationship with consumers as a preferred service provider,” he wrote. He then discusses the potential benefits of marketing manufacturers’ service plans.
