The Georgia Department of Economic Development has opened applications for its yearly celebration of export achievement. GLOBE Awards — Georgians Leveraging Opportunities By Exporting — are given to companies based in the state that have expanded into a new country in a given year. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 1, with companies needing to […]
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Adams and Reese Names New Partner in Global Trade, Logistics Practice
Brian F. Hansen has joined the Atlanta law office of Adams and Reese LLP as a partner in its global trade, transportation and logistics practice. Mr. Hansen has deep experience in litigation defending logistics, trucking and poultry companies in accident cases, as well as a focus on construction law, where he has successful prosecuted claims […]
How One Atlanta Company Drives the World’s Lotteries Through Manufacturing Innovation
The founding fathers may have used lottery tickets partly to fund the Revolutionary War, but even they couldn’t have foreseen how high the stakes would get in the new country they were helping mint. “We actually have a collection of antique lottery tickets from around the world signed by people like Thomas Jefferson and […]
Big Data Firm’s Equifax Deal Could Drive Financial Inclusion Globally
Atlanta-based Urjanet has landed a global partnership with credit information provider Equifax Inc., a fellow Atlanta firm with 11,000 employees, that could help improve financial inclusion around the world. Urjanet is tied into 6,500 water, waste, power, gas, cable and telecom utilities in 47 countries, gaining access to their customers’ billing and payment history. Provided on-demand […]
Greenlight to Accelerate Financial Literacy Mission With $54M Investment
Tim Sheehan only has to look at his own household to see the global applications for the financial technology company he founded. Three of the Greenlight Financial CEO’s four children have used its accounts to kickstart savings toward study-abroad trips to Germany and Spain. Starting with the eldest, each raised $900 through odd jobs and […]
Atlanta Airport Trails Other ‘Megahubs’ on Global Connectivity Ranking
Atlanta may boast the busiest airport in the world, but Hartsfield-Jackson trails other “megahubs” around the world in global connectivity, according to research firm OAG. ATL ranks seventh in the world Megahubs International Index, which ranks the top 200 hubs based on the ratio of scheduled international connections and total number of destinations served. Out […]
Former Chevy Exec: How Foreign Language Accelerates Global Careers
Tim Mahoney had one dream while in college: to become a pilot like a good friend’s father, who lived a romantic life traveling the world for Pan Am and experiencing the world through the windshield of a jet. But Mr. Mahoney’s vision didn’t pan out, in more ways that one. As a rising junior he […]
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Retains Busiest Airport Crown, Sees Growth Potential Globally
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport remains the busiest in the world, growing 3.3 percent to reach nearly 107.4 million passengers in 2018, according to Airports Council International. New numbers released by the trade group Sept. 16 confirmed a prediction earlier this year that ATL would retain its crown. Hartsfield-Jackson once again again fended off a challenge from second-ranking Beijing […]
GSU PhD Candidate Seeks to Ally Insects With Humans to Cure the Earth’s Ills
Sarah Ku, a PhD candidate at Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business, has her own vision of how to deal with the earth’s environmental challenges. Be they how to feed 8.5 billion people by 2030, or how to clean the pollution coagulating in the oceans or the mountainous ranges of landfills circling the world’s great […]
UGA Law Dean: New U.N. Treaty on Mediation Holds Promise for Georgia
Georgia may have had to play catch-up when preparing its legal environment for international arbitration, but it has a chance to lead the pack when it comes to another form of commercial dispute settlement, thanks to a new United Nations treaty. Signed in August, the Singapore Convention on Mediation aims to smooth out the enforceability of […]
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