Tag: Business and Society

Goizueta Impact Investors has kicked-off its Spring 2018 funding round. The student-run loan fund is looking to provide between $10,000 to $30,000 of affordable, short-term funding to nonprofits and social enterprises during Spring 2018.

The Start:ME Accelerator has selected 49 promising small businesses in the Clarkston, East Lake and Southside communities for its 2018 cohorts.

Grounds for Empowerment -- a Social Enterprise @ Goizueta initiative -- is partnering with Nicaragua’s Vega Coffee to provide even more economic opportunities for women coffee specialty coffee farmers.

What may seem like the golden age of entrepreneurship, Ross Baird, president of Village Capital and author of “The Innovation Blind Spot,” says otherwise.

At this year’s second annual Grounds for Empowerment Community Forum attendees had the opportunity to experience something unique. Four GFE farmers, Ivania Calderón, Alexa Marin,...

The Start:ME Accelerator is currently recruiting promising entrepreneurs in and around Clarkston, East Lake, and the Southside through November 6th for its 2018 programs.

Professor of Organization & Management and Academic Director of Social Enterprise @ Goizueta Peter Roberts talks about how startup accelerators have become more popular in emerging markets in the Harvard Business Review.

Erika James, John H. Harland Dean of Emory University's Goizueta Business School, delivered her annual Town Hall address Wednesday afternoon to a capacity crowd of faculty, staff and students. James, who is entering her fourth academic year leading the school, took the opportunity to detail success stories from the past calendar year and inspire action as the school nears its centennial celebration.

Climate change. The UN international treaty on climate change dominated the headlines in 2017. President Trump caused consternation for some, celebration for others, when in May...

Recent observations from Goizueta's Transparent Trade Coffee project found the cost to purchase a pound of specialty coffee is lowest in the South. The project also suggests that coffee is the most expensive out West.

Academic Director of Social Enterprise Peter Roberts and the Transparent Trade Coffee team have launched a new column series in Daily Coffee News exploring transparency in specialty coffee markets.

Grow with the Flow founders and entrepreneurs Reggie and Roger Ramos begin to grow business with help of Start:ME program.