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 rebuild whatever inter-connectivity is lost. In an online video addressing global crises exacerbated by COVID-19, Dr. Cavusgil said that he considers the trauma testing the […]

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 as it emerges from the threat of COVID-19, according to John Endicott, the former Georgia Tech professor who currently serves as president of a Korean […]

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 Nathan Crawford, a lead public health adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for an interview. Samuel had won in February a regional […]

Pandemic Speeds Up Launch of Global Health Crisis Center in Atlanta

A center tasked with deepening the collaboration between the private sector and Atlanta’s growing global health community launched this week, its timeline accelerated and relevancy accentuated by the coronavirus pandemic. The Global Health Crisis Coordination Center, or GHC3, is backed by $1 million in seed funding from Microsoft and the CDC Foundation, and has built […]

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 Congo, she was determined to walk to school with an improvised cane despite having been partially crippled by polio. It’s not really surprising that once […]

Emory’s Jag Sheth: Multinational Companies Should Coordinate Global Coronavirus Response

It is remarkable how swiftly governments of the world from China to European Union to the United States to India, have taken decisive measures to not only “flatten the curve” but also to source Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) such as face masks, gloves and gowns, as well as ventilators and other hospital supplies. In addition, […]

Civil Society: Goal of ‘Hero Rising Women’ in Eastern Congo

It is a profound tragedy that one of the most mineral rich areas of the world with the most fertile ground has been a killing field with roving bands of armed men and boys under the command of a variety of different warlords and clashing armies. Such is the recent history of the eastern Democratic […]

Business Case Competition Tackles Brazilian Beauty Market

To some students, Natura, the Brazilian provider of makeup and other beauty products, needed only cosmetic changes to grow its business within the South American country and beyond. To others participating in the Georgia State University Center for International Business Education and Research’s annual business case competition, the solution was an online makeover of the […]

30 Years Later: Kennesaw State’s Role in Romania’s Transition to an Open Economy

Editor’s note: This story is published via a sponsorship and content partnership between Global Atlanta and Kennesaw State University’s Division of Global Affairs. When Romania last year marked the 30-year anniversary of the fall of communism in 1989, it had much to celebrate. After some initial setbacks, the Eastern European nation’s economy by 1995 surpassed its output […]

Atlanta Students Engage in Service Learning on Bahamas Trip

Twelve students and five parents from Brandon Hall School, the private boarding and day school in Sandy Springs, spent their long President’s Day weekend on much more than rest and relaxation. They took their second trip to the Bahamas in fewer than six months, volunteering at local schools, churches and nonprofits in a country that […]

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