It was a gray November 2023 afternoon, chilly and damp. But inside the Business Learning Community, the mood was festive and bright. A crowd gathered inside Amos Hall’s Casey Commons to celebrate a milestone for the Terry College of Business: the University of Georgia’s Department of Economics had a new name.
Debates about ESG or corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns often pit a company’s shareholders against its stakeholders, but evidence from the markets paints a different picture.
Faculty at the Terry College of Business earned new accolades and grant funding in first half of 2024.
They say variety is the spice of life, but what if eating, listening or watching the same thing on repeat, rather than constantly switching among them, actually prolongs your enjoyment of a favorite snack, song or video?
Too many after-school activities can not only hurt teen’s social-emotional development but also stalls their academic development.
Jan Recker, Terry College’s inaugural visiting international scholar and Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and Nucleus Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, has built a career studying the different ways people put technology to work.
Terry College of Business faculty collaborated on three research projects receiving funding from the 2023 round of Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants at the University of Georgia.
Salge and co-authors — Elena Karahanna of UGA and Jason Thatcher of the University of Colorado-Boulder (formerly of Temple University) — recently won best paper awards from the Association for Information Systems, the academic association for information systems scholars, and from MIS Quarterly, a premier information systems journal, for their investigation into the ways bots impact the information ecosystem online.
With the rapid pace of technological change, the most significant thing an academic program can give its students is the ability to evolve, said Gerald Kane, who was named head of the Terry College of Business Department of Management Information Systems on Jan. 1.
“Location, location, location” may be the mantra when choosing the right home, but new research from the University of Georgia finds it also might be key when choosing the right real estate agent.