Tag: Atlanta

Goizueta Impact Investors has kicked-off its Spring 2018 funding round. The student-run loan fund is looking to provide between $10,000 to $30,000 of affordable, short-term funding to nonprofits and social enterprises during Spring 2018.

The Start:ME Accelerator has selected 49 promising small businesses in the Clarkston, East Lake and Southside communities for its 2018 cohorts.

“Women Wired for Change” was the theme of the 2017 Executive Women of Goizueta conference held at Atlanta’s St. Regis hotel this past fall.

On the surface, and according to most news reports about the pending move, the city that lands Amazon’s second headquarters will be universally trumpeted...

While most students were off enjoying their weekend, the "hackers, hustlers and hipsters" were busy brainstorming and collaborating during the sixth annual HackATL event where teams spend 48 hours building a business to present to judges.

More than 250 women and men came together to hear from key stakeholders, network with fellow business leaders, and learn from faculty and alumni panels about women’s equality during Goizueta Business School’s second annual #GoizuetaENGAGE conference.

In late November, several Master of Science in Business Analytics students participated in the 2017 Atlanta Health Data Challenge.

It’s been just more than a year since I issued a call to the Atlanta business community to step up efforts in gender equality. I’m very grateful to the Atlanta Business Chronicle for publishing an op-ed and continuing to take time to recognize “women who mean business.”

To help kick off the inaugural Goizueta Latino Business Association Distinguished Speaker Series, Javier Goizueta, retired vice president, The Coca-Cola Company, and president of the global McDonald's Division, sat down with Graciela Chadwick, director of Chick-fil-A HELP (Initiatives and Insights) at Chick-fil-A Corporate.

Recently, SunTrust's Jerome Lienhard sat down with Dean Erika James for a fireside chat on the topic of risk. Lienhard is the chief risk officer at SunTrust Banks and is responsible for the company's risk discipline.

BrightHouse has hired Ashley Grice 03FTMBA as CEO. Grice, who worked at BrightHouse early in her career, succeeds Doug Shipman 95C, who left the firm to become president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta.

Several teams from various schools came to Goizueta Business School in October to put their marketing skills to the test.