Tag: Business and Society

Not every start-up aims to be the next Uber or Airbnb. Many are budding social enterprises located “outside of the streetlight,” explained Peter Roberts...

The Start:ME program provides select business owners with know-how, mentorship support, and early-stage capital. A total of $31,500 was awarded to entrepreneurs April 9, with recipients decided by peer voting.

ATLANTA  – Forty-seven promising entrepreneurs in the Clarkston, East Lake and Southside Atlanta communities have completed an extensive mentoring and business training program offered...

Each year, Grounds for Empowerment, a specialty coffee program powered by Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, visits coffee country in Nicaragua with a group of interested travelers. Watch the video and follow along as the GFE team takes you through origin in Nicaragua!

The second annual Microbusiness Support Colloquium, presented by Northern Trust, brought together twenty microentrepreneur support organizations from twelve states to Goizueta to discuss data,...

Thanks to a matching gift challenge by Goizueta’s Dean Erika James to spur contributions, the Start:ME Accelerator Program is off to a rousing start....

Fifty promising small businesses from Clarkston, East Lake, and Southside Atlanta have been selected for the 2019 Start:ME Accelerator, a free, intensive 14-session business training program for promising ventures in underserved metro-Atlanta communities.

Each summer, SE@G co-invests with social enterprise partners to provide stipend funding that creates opportunities for MBA students to work with social enterprises as interns.

“Tonight is about the big picture, big questions, big ideas — audacious ideas,” Assistant Professor Wesley Longhofer said as he welcomed students to the third annual Audacious Ideas Night, part of his Business and Society course for Goizueta undergraduate students.

This holiday season, the Social Enterprise @ Goizueta team has ideas for those who would like to give gifts with social impact, authentic local connection, empowerment and purpose.

Recently, the Goizueta Nonprofit Consultants Club hosted its annual Nonprofit Case Competition. This event is designed to give MBA students practice solving real-world growth challenges, a means to develop meaningful connections with the Atlanta non-profit community and the neighbors they serve.

Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal, chairman of FEMSA, and John Santa Maria Sr., CEO of Coca-Cola FEMSA, spoke at Goizueta on sustainability and social responsiblity before sitting down for a chat with Dean Erika James. Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world, with bottling plants across Latin America.