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When B-School Meets the Arts

When students shuffled into Wesley Longhofer’s Business and Society class this August, they were expecting to learn about the social responsibilities of business—a class...

Shop Small for Local Holiday Gifts from Your Goizueta Network

The hustle and bustle of the holidays has taken hold. Light the candles, jingle the bells, wrap the presents, and get ready to celebrate...

Certified B Corps: Students Explore Business as a Force for Good

When three entrepreneurs from Atlanta envisioned their brewery, they wanted to bake in sustainable, humane business practices. Just as superior beer requires careful fermentation,...

The Case for Change: University Students Encouraged to Enter John R....

Now in its third year, the groundbreaking John R. Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition (JLCC) focuses on the intersection of business and racial inequity...

Start:ME Accelerator Program to Offer $30K in Grants to Small Businesses...

The Goizueta Start:ME business accelerator program is currently recruiting promising microentrepreneurs in and around Clarkston, East Lake, and Southside Atlanta for its 2023 programs....
Teens learning about business

Goizueta Partners with The King Center to Kick Off New Youth...

Emory University’s Goizueta Business School recently had the honor of participating in the inaugural year of the Beloved Community Leadership Academy (BCLA), a program...
Goizueta alumna Vanecia Thompson 22EvMBAand SwemKids

Purpose-Driven Work in a Capitalism-Driven Society

“It can be challenging--but not impossible--to focus on purpose-driven work in a capitalism-driven society,” says Vanecia Thompson 22EvMBA, a past Business & Society Institute...
Fact vs. bias

Student TikToks Creatively Counter Workplace Bias

To tackle bias in the workplace, companies often require employees to attend training for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Research has shown, though, that...
Young African leaders attend session at Goizueta Business School

Goizueta Hosts Young African Leaders

In 2010, President Barrack Obama partnered with Nelson Mandela to create the Young African Leaders Initiative, or YALI for short, to “support an emerging...
Fjords of Norway

Goizueta Students Travel to Norway & Explore Social, Cultural, and Geopolitical...

In May of 2022, MBA students took part in a joint experience to the Kingdom of Norway that was the result of a collaboration...
Goizueta Business School Interim John H. Harland Dean Karen Sedatole, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Accounting

With Steady Leadership Through Turbulent Times, Interim Dean Karen Sedatole Has...

As the Interim John H. Harland Dean of Goizueta Business School, Karen Sedatole has faced innumerable and unprecedented challenges to the familiar phrase “business...

48 Atlanta-Area Microbusinesses Complete Goizueta’s Start:ME Program and Receive $33,000 in...

On Thursday, May 12, a virtual graduation ceremony was held to recognize the 2022 Goizueta Business School’s Start:ME Accelerator participants. The intensive, place-based accelerator...