Editor’s note: The below story is based on an arrival interview with new U.K. Consul General Andrew Staunton, who will also be the featured guest at Global Atlanta’s upcoming Consular Conversations luncheon and public interview Aug. 22. Sign up here to eat something and learn something while meeting the South’s top British diplomat. Before taking Read more
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IBM Veteran Teaches Marketing Professionals How to Build Digital Playbooks
Editor’s note: This is a sponsored post written by the staff at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Showing up on Instagram isn’t enough. Marketers must know the nuances of their audience on every digital platform, engage with them effectively on each, and measure where their efforts are working as well as falling short. Read more
The Delta Student Success Center Launches Robinson as the ‘Business School of the Future’
For Robinson College of Business Dean Richard Phillips, glimpses of the future can be seen from as close as the smartphone on the table in front of him or as far away as the horizon seen from a medieval tower. First, the smartphone: “We can now produce, collect, analyze and send information on almost everyone Read more
‘Mercer On Mission’ Program Fits 10,000th Vietnamese With Prosthetic Leg
A Macon family foundation has provided funds for four clinics in Vietnam where local doctors and technicians can provide amputees, who have lost limbs primarily from unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War, with specially fitted prosthetics. Mercer University announced on June 26 that its “Mercer On Mission” program, which is served by the Read more
Innovative University in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, Seeks Board Members for Its Atlanta-based Foundation
An Atlanta-based foundation for the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB), an innovative institution in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire, which was launched in 2007 with the support of Georgia State University, seeks board members interested in serving its mission to develop the necessary resources to make the university “a center of excellence” for Read more
African Georgia State Graduate Sets an Example for Women in STEM Studies
While growing up in Côte d’Ivoire, Sarran Deigna knew that her mother had been a good student with a special facility for mathematics. “If my Mum was so good at math, I should also be a good math student,” she told Global Atlanta during an interview in her office at the Federal Home Loan Bank Read more
UPS CEO and Georgia State President: The Future Is Looking More Chinese
When David Abney was in high school, he took two years of Latin. Now, the United Parcel Service Inc. CEO and chairman is advising all six of his grandchildren to study Mandarin Chinese. “There is so much that is going to happen in the next 50 years in China and between China and the U.S., Read more
Prominent Georgia Tech Alum to Join Carnegie Endowment Board
Steven A. Denning, a Georgia Tech alumnus whose donations have resulted in $15 million in funding for its business-school programs has been named to the board of trustees for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Denning chairs investment firm General Atlantic LLC, in which joined in 1980. The fund now manages nearly $25 billion and has 13 offices Read more
World Affairs Council’s Board Elects New Chair, Peru’s Consul General Assumes Ex Officio Post
With a new strategic plan in hand, Hugh S. (Beau) Cummins III, Sun Trust Banks Inc.’s co-chief operating officer, has been elected chair of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta for a two year term, replacing former Coca-Cola Co. executive Clyde Tuggle who has co-founded Pine Island Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on small Read more
Georgia’s Mixed Grades on Economic Score Card Counter Customary Reports
Georgia receives poor grades in manufacturing health and human capital on a national report card judging the economic vitality of all 50 states, according to Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research located in Muncie, Ind. The recently released report gives Georgia a “D+” in terms of its manufacturing health. Its grades also Read more
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