Tag: Business and Society
Start:ME accelerator program for micro-entrepreneurs begins
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta (SE@G) at Emory University is partnering with Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), Friends of Refugees and the East Lake Foundation to offer the Start:Micro-Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (Start:ME) to support the most promising micro-entrepreneurs.
Goizueta research sheds light on success of female entreprenuers
What does data tell us about women in early stage entrepreneurship? Sean Peters, Program Director of The Entrepreneurship Database program at Emory, shares important...
WSJ: Roberts, SE@G creating payment benchmarks
Professor Peter Roberts provides info to the WSJ in regards to speciality coffee and fair wages for the industry's farmers.
WSJ: Goizueta develops index for coffee trade transparency
Goizueta's Peter Roberts and the Social Enterprise team have developed an "index that tracks 60 'blue chip' coffee brands in an attempt to bring transparency to growers and buyers
Multi-million dollar partnership to study startup success
“We want programs to produce systematic and comparable data, so they can learn what does and doesn’t work,” says Peter Roberts, professor of organization and management at Emory and academic director of Social Enterprise @ Goizueta.
Goizueta part of alliance to examine global accelerators
$2.3 million committed to improving the effectiveness of accelerator programs through research and analysis.
Start:ME brings social enterprise know-how to Atlanta market
To many, the phrase “startup accelerator” conjures images of support networks for 20-somethings working on the next great app.
Likewise, the word “microentrepreneurship” often is...
$70K in Loan funds invested in East Lake and Clarkston micro-entrepreneurs
May 11, 2015 – Social Enterprise @ Goizueta (SE@G) at Emory University has teamed with Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), CDF: A Collective...
Evening MBAs provide research, knowledge to local non-profit
Five Goizueta Evening MBA students volunteered their time and management knowledge to help create a sustainable and refined business plan for nonprofit re:loom. The students,...
Goizueta researchers build index to track specialty coffee
The Specialty Coffee Retail Price Index (SCRPI)* is being developed by researchers at Social Enterprise @ Goizueta to track the retail prices charged by a representative group of “blue chip” North American specialty coffee roasters.
Start:ME and Goizueta helping entrepreneurs in Atlanta
That's when Massiah found out about Emory University's Goizueta Business School's 14-week entrepreneur accelerator program, Start:ME, and its work in her East Lake community.
'Personally, this program has...
Commentary: Roberts offers closer look at the TOMS model
Coffee communities might actually be better off if we simply pay farmers appropriately, and then allow them to procure clean water for themselves.
If you...