Tag: Alumni

Get to know Jonathan Baker 06BBA in Goizueta's Know Your Network series.

Get to know Lauren Dawson 17MBA in Goizueta's Know Your Network series.

The challenges of global business go well beyond language barriers. To create lasting, authentic partnerships, one must embrace culture, history, and societal norms.

Proper exposure to international business requires multiple lenses. Yet one resource sometimes overlooked is the international elements across the university. Goizueta’s Dean Erika James, with an eye toward collaboration, has challenged the school to create more opportunities to prepare for international immersion and partner across campus.

For some, international exchange can sharpen independence; for others, exposure to a country can kickstart a career. Matthew Williams 05BBA is a vice president at Blue Water Energy in London, where he’s lived since 2009.

For the last four years at commencement, I have had the honor of welcoming GBS graduates across all programs to the Goizueta Alumni Network. It is an exciting time of the year, with new beginnings and an opportunity for new challenges and impact.

Jenny Yao Harrison’s boss in Shanghai told her the first day, “You will always have work that was already supposed to be done yesterday.”

Ivo Tafkov 09PhD, as an associate professor of accountancy at Georgia State University, uses economics and psychology to research how management control systems influence employee behavior.

When Jeff Miller 10MBA graduated from Goizueta, Snapchat, his current employer, did not exist.

Unlike many high-octane leaders, Insight Sourcing Group founder and CEO Tom Beaty 97MBA wants to make sure his employees aren’t working too much.

Paula Fontana is one determined soul. Every morning she’s up at 4 a.m., has a protein shake and some supplements, then heads to the gym.

Nikolay Osadchiy grew up in Tula, Russia, a town 120 miles south of Moscow. Tula does not jump off the map, but it is the hometown of Leo Tolstoy, author of two of the world’s great novels: War and Peace and Anna Karenina.