It drew a gubernatorial visit for the groundbreaking and press coverage hailing a southern textile renaissance, but five years later, a $70 million Indian investment in Screven County has failed to materialize. Shrivallabh Pittie Group was to set up a 250-job factory in Sylvania within an industrial park pre-certified by the state to accelerate investment. […]
Indian Media Firestorm Surrounds Emory Professor’s Award Presentation to Prime Minister Modi
On his current trip to India, Emory University marketing expert Jagdish Sheth’s agenda included a seemingly simple delivery that has set off a politically driven firestorm on Indian media. Dr. Sheth, a chaired professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, reportedly presented the “first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential Leadership Award” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It’s named after one […]
Diplomatic Digest: Georgia Consular Corps Turnover During 2018
Georgia‘s diplomatic door continued to revolve as expected in 2018, with some consuls general ending their stints here and others just getting started as the year closed. But the most consequential shifts for Atlanta’s global standing were those that resulted in new outposts from countries that had covered their expatriate communities and business interests in […]
Books 2018: The Underdog Empire of the Portuguese
Book: Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire Author: Roger Crowley Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Chair in Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology One of the great curiosities of history is how Portugal, a peripheral, poverty-stricken country of less than a million inhabitants, was capable […]
Books 2018: India’s Indictment of Unbridled Capitalism
Book: Capital: The Eruption of Delhi Author: Rana Dasgupta Review by: Trevor Williams, managing editor of Global Atlanta I’ve traveled to India once. It’s a pulsating place, loud with the din of lives crashing against each other and people trying to get by. I’ve seen this with my own eyes and can say it with […]
Q&A: Can a New Chamber Deepen Atlanta’s India Outreach?
Editor’s note: Atlanta has long benefited from an active, prosperous community of Indian-origin immigrants that some estimate to number more than 100,000. Many metro companies have deep operations in India, and the city has been the venue for billions of dollars in Indian-backed acquisitions. Indian tech giants like Wipro and Tech Mahindra employ thousands of Atlantans and […]
Khabar: India’s New Consul General Gains Community Welcome
India’s new consul general in Atlanta was welcomed by nearly 70 Indian organizations at a banquet that drew attendees from across the region she covers. Swati Vijay Kulkarni, a medical doctor by training and a diplomat with more than two decades experience, spent the evening of Oct. 6 with community groups from Georgia, South Carolina, […]
Did Foreign Graduates Help Lure Amazon Away From Atlanta?
Greater availability of recent foreign graduates in Washington and New York may have played a role in Amazon’s decision put its second and third headquarters operations in those cities, passing over other top-20 metro hopefuls like Atlanta. Reports have speculated that the expected challenge of finding talent drove Amazon’s last-second decision to split its planned 50,000-job […]
Cardlytics to Open First Asia Office in India
Atlanta-based Cardlytics plans to open its first Asia office next year in Visakhapatnam, an eastern Indian city making its case as a financial technology hub. The office will open in early 2019 and will ramp up to 80 employees by the following year, according to a news release by Cardlytics, which helps banks and other […]
Commentary: Fast Track No Longer: Talent-based Green Cards Face Unprecedented Delays
Editor’s note/disclosure: This sponsored commentary piece was written by an attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP under an advertising arrangement with Global Atlanta. Historically, foreign national employees who meet the lofty threshold for qualifying as individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, or multinational managers have enjoyed a fast track to […]
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