The right internship can be the first building block to a successful career in business, but what happens when a pandemic scuttles the entry-level experience of a summer internship?
This summer, children across the country got more screen time than parents thought possible, but one young entrepreneur discovered a novel way to turn game time into learning time.
For four decades, Terry College of Business management professor Robert Vandenberg has found new ways to accurately assess the attitudes, feelings and behaviors that employees experience in the workplace.
A student startup that wants to be a hub for gift-givers to buy local and regional hotel stays won the $2,000 top prize at UGA’s 2020 Summer Design Sprint virtual pitch competition.
The Big Data revolution has changed nearly every aspect of business, and the seismic shift has been felt throughout the accounting profession.
University of Georgia alumnus Chip Chambers has been selected as a recipient of a Marcus L. Urann Fellowship by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
Movie studios estimate that they lose billions of dollars to digital movie piracy. But a new marketing study from the University of Georgia finds that piracy can actually boost ticket sales in certain situations. The reason: pirates talk.
“Lightning never strikes the same place twice.” It’s a comforting thought for someone who just lost everything in a once-in-a-lifetime disaster. But it’s not the kind of advice that should be applied to property insurance decisions.
While it’s been much quieter inside the Business Learning Community this summer, there has been a lot of work behind the scenes to prepare for the return of Terry College students to campus this fall.
Employees who feel they are treated fairly by their supervisors perform better at work, but new research finds perceptions of fairness are swayed by the mood and outlook employees bring to work.
Even with a filing extension, income tax returns became more complicated to fill out in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. With tech-savvy relatives kept at a distance and many tax preparers closed to drop-in appointments, some taxpayers needed a place to turn for help.
Seven honorees of the University of Georgia’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2020 earned a degree from the Terry College of Business. The list includes five Terry alums with an undergraduate degree in business and two who earned an MBA.
The course began as a study of insurer operations and policy, but ended as a lesson in servant leadership, and giving back to communities most in need.
The United Nations projected in April that 2.7 billion workers around the world — four out of five employees globally — will have their work lives disrupted by efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19.
Digital technology has transformed almost every type of work in the last half-century, but on the open range a lot of the heavy lifting is still done by a cowboy and a horse. Soon, those cowboys may be getting airborne assistance.
Imagine what would happen if we retrained our brains to focus less on the inconveniences of a problem and more on its possible solutions.
Alex Reed, an associate professor of legal studies and director of the Legal Studies Certificate Program at the Terry College of Business, answers questions about the legal doctrine behind the June 2020 Supreme Court cast that prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Every year, digital marketing students at the University of Georgia can put their skills into action through the UGA Digital Marketing Case Competition.
Since joining the faculty of the University Georgia Terry College of Business 10 years ago, Anindita Chakravarty has built a reputation as an expert in digital marketing and marketing performance metrics.
Class notes from Terry College of Business alumni as of Spring/Summer 2020.
Passings for Terry College of Business alumni for Spring/Summer 2020
Like a lot of entrepreneurs these days, Kaitlin Lutz is paying attention as new problems arise — not necessarily in terms of how those problems might derail her young company NewCrew, but how she might find an opportunity to deliver a solution.
In the world of venture capital there are big names, there are small names, and there are hometown heroes. In Athens, one important source of venture capital is run by University of Georgia students.
Female and minority inventors are less likely to have their patent applications granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. Applications with feminine-sounding names, as opposed to androgynous names, are less likely to be approved, too.