Georgia set a fourth-straight annual record for exports, eclipsing the $50 billion mark for the first time, and grew its imports substantively in 2024 as the trade landscape veered toward a period of uncertainty.
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Atlanta’s OneDigital Enters Canada With Acquisition
Atlanta’s OneDigital has made its first foray into the Canadian market with a purchase of Montreal-based PWL Capital, a wealth advisory firm with C$5.5 billion (just under $4 billion) in assets under management.
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Books 2025: Globetrotting Entrepreneur From Gwinnett on ‘Unsucking’ Your Business
Book: Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your Business Author: Jeffrey Spence Review by: Nick Masino, president and CEO, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Jeffrey Spence’s Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your […]
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Georgia State CIBER Strengthens Critical Link Between Academia and International Business
Georgia State University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) is expanding its role as a critical link between academia and industry, providing more opportunities in 2025 that foster global business competencies among students, educators and businesses, says CIBER faculty director Cuneyt Evirgen.
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Books 2024: A Presidential Biographer’s Personal Love Story
“An Unfinished Love Story” provides an unflinching, up-close-and-personal record of “the political cauldron of the Sixties,” in Kearns Goodwin’s words.”
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Books 2024: Stories of Turmoil Amid the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Book: The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Reviewed by: Jorge Fernandez, consultant at The Pendleton Group, retired U.S. […]
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Books 2024: How a German Polymath Influenced Global Influencers to ‘Invent Nature’
While reading, I was constantly amazed by the way the glitterati of the time were entranced by Humboldt, who by all accounts simultaneously informed, impressed, bemused (and sometimes annoyed) anyone who came into contact with him.
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Books 2024: A Mind-Bending, Paradigm-Shifting Foray Into a Hidden Reality
Book: Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Author: Naomi Klein Reviewed by: Michael Manely, family law attorney at The Manely Firm P.C. Naomi Klein has synthesized and collated many of […]
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Books 2024: Paging St. Paul and Ted Lasso
Bruni questions the notion of “micro” aggressions, perceived slights to eggshell egos beset by pinprick triggers and the notion that others are responsible for all our discomforts.
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Books 2024: A Sci-Fi Writer’s Premonition About the U.S. Today
I have read several dystopian books about the future of global destruction due to climate change and political dysfunction and continue to think about how to deal with this reality in our own family.