Book: Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend Author: Andrew Downie, published September 2017 by Simon & Schuster; 400 pages Review: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Chair in Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of Technology A detailed, brilliant, and evenhanded biography of the legendary Brazilian soccer player Socrates is a wonderful read at this moment when Read more
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A Swan Song for Longtime Global Business Professor David Bruce
David Bruce, who is retiring after more than 33 years in the University System of Georgia, received a heartfelt farewell from colleagues and students Dec. 5 during a luncheon held at the Rialto Center of the Arts downtown. Daniel C. Bello, director of the Institute of International Business at the Robinson College of Business, traced Dr. Read more
Chile Acquisition Could Expand Sovos’s Atlanta Office
The former base of Invoiceware International in Atlanta is likely to benefit from its new owner’s continued expansion into South America.
Orkin Expands Franchises in Brazil, Indonesia and Beyond
Orkin, the main pest-control brand of Atlanta-based Rollins Inc., has announced a raft of new international franchise agreements, mostly in Latin America. The company announced July 17 that it had added six new franchises in three Brazilian cities, plus Nicaragua and the international capitals of Lima, Peruand Jakarta, Indonesia. The Brazilian cities include Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo. As it does with all new franchisees, Rollins has Read more
Curiosity to Cure: Atlanta Traveler Explores Why the World Flocks to Brazilian Healer ‘John of God’
Contributed by Sucheta Rawal, For Global Atlanta Why are millions of people from all over the world — including some from Atlanta — traveling to a small town near the capital of Brazil in search of personal and physical healing? To find out, I flew to Brasilia, having extended my stay in the country after a Read more
Georgia’s Push and Pull Approaches to Global Fintech Dominance
Georgia’s biggest annual financial technology summit showed how the state is aiming to enhance its global reputation, both by attracting investment from overseas and helping homegrown upstarts take on industry challenges with international resonance. The event was a clarion call to defend and augment the state’s reputation as an international leader in an industry that is attracting more Read more
Brazil to Heighten Its Presence at This Year’s Meat and Poultry Expo
Brazil is taking this year’s International Production and Processing Expo to be held in Atlanta Jan. 31-Feb. 2 more seriously than ever before with 32 companies, associations and government entities attending and hosting a “Brazil Summit” on the eve of the event to highlight the high health standards of its livestock and poultry. Known for Read more
Atlanta’s Diplomatic Door Continues to Revolve in 2016
Perhaps more than any year since we started tracking it, the revolving door of the Atlanta Consular Corps rotated rapidly in 2016, with key arrivals and departures among the city’s always churning cadre of diplomats. Notably, the deanship — the title of longest-serving member, who runs the communal functions of the consular corps — was passed to El Salvador’s Read more
Books 2016: Art From the Trash Heap and Beyond, A Catalogue of Vik Muniz’s Legacy at the High
Book: Vik Muniz, The Catalogue Authors: Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Calif.; Brett Abbott, Donald and Marilyn Keough Family curator of Photography and Head of Collections, the High Museum of Art Review by: Phil Bolton, publisher of Global Atlanta; Amanda Villa-Lobos, photographer There is so much to say Read more
Brazil: Confidence Growing, but Tough Medicine on the Horizon
For Brazil’s beleaguered economy, the best long-term investment may be spending political capital to ensure that the government keeps its purse strings tight — at least according to one expert. That seems to be what’s happening now in South America’s largest economy, where a constitutional amendment that would cap spending at the previous year’s Read more
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