Ángel Cabrera, Georgia’s Tech’s new president, revealed the university’s updated mission statement and contents of its new strategic plan to the attendees of the May 19 virtual session of the […]
Author Archives: Phil Bolton
Phil Bolton is the founder and publisher emeritus of Global Atlanta.
Posted inBusiness, Global Health, Manufacturing
JPMorgan Economist Foresees ‘Global Cool’ and ‘a New Globalization Story’
Having recognized the damage that the coronavirus has done to the U.S. economy, Jim Glassman, managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., took a […]
Posted inBusiness, Diplomacy, Global Health
ACIR: Hungary’s Achievements, from Handwashing to GDP Growth
Even kids know the value of washing hands, pestered as they are by parents to use soap and water before dinner or after playing outside. COVID-19’s mounting death toll has […]
Posted inBusiness, Education
Robinson Prof: Globalization to Return in ‘New Phase and a New Form’
With globalization increasingly under attack, Robinson College of Business Professor S. Tamer Cavusgil thinks that the future of the world’s economies will depend on individual and national character traits to […]
Posted inDiplomacy, Politics
France’s Former Ambassador to the U.S. Fears for the Future of the World’s Liberal Order
When France’s former ambassador to the U.S., Gérard Araud, was last in Atlanta, the Paris agreement on climate change still had not been signed. He had arrived a month prior […]
Posted inBusiness, Education
Endicott College: Part of the Legacy in Korea of a Former Georgia Tech Prof
South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in emerged from the April 15 legislative elections stronger than ever placing his party in a position to set the country’s political, educational and diplomatic agendas […]
Posted inBusiness, Education
The CDC Is the Latest Focus of a Wright Family Home-Produced Video
As the coronavirus was being recognized for the global scourge that already had resulted in the deaths in China and elsewhere including the United States, home-schooled, 12-year-old Samuel Wright approached […]
Posted inBusiness, Economic Development, Education
A Primary School’s Defiance of Local Vandals in Eastern Congo
Education has provided the foundation for Neema Namadamu’s career as a global activist. Even as a child living in a small, remote village in the violence prone Democratic Republic of […]
Posted inBusiness, Global Health
Korean General Praises His Country’s Anti-Viral Policies but Fears Future Pandemics
In a follow-up Zoom conference to members of the Southeast U.S. Korean Chamber of Commerce, Lt. General (Ret.) In-Bum Chun warned on April 13 that for the coronavirus to be […]
Posted inBusiness, Global Health
Korea Benefits From Testing in Combating COVID-19 but the Fight Isn’t Over
While South Korea has managed the COVID-19 pandemic adroitly, Lt. General (Ret.) In-Bum Chun warned at the end of a Zoom-based conference call members of the Southeast-U.S. Korean Chamber of […]