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Fall Term Company Implementing Suggestions of Winning Georgia Tech MBA Brand Auditing Team The Georgia Tech MBA students who won the brand audit contest in the fall Strategic Brand Management course did such an impressive job that Air2Web has decided to implement many of their recommendations. Read More... College of Management Faculty Members Receive Numerous Honors Widely recognized for excellence in teaching and research, faculty members of Georgia Tech College of Management continue to raise the business school's profile through their professional activities and honors. Read More... CareerBuilder Gets Great Return on Executive MBA Investment Since 2007, CareerBuilder has sponsored some of its best and brightest stars in Georgia Tech’s Executive MBA programs. Read More... Senior John Schneider Gaining Global Competence through International Plan When John Schneider first heard about Georgia Tech’s International Plan as an entering freshman, he knew it was his ticket to a world of business opportunities. Read More... Evening MBA Student Diana Orrego-Moore Is Building Connections Evening MBA student Diana Orrego-Moore well understands the importance of a strong professional network. That’s a big part of what attracted her to Georgia Tech College of Management. Read More... Study: Auditors' Reports Affect Loan Decisions When auditors issue adverse opinions of a company’s internal controls, bank loan officers take note. They are less likely to extend businesses a line of credit, according to a study conducted by Georgia Tech accounting professors Bryan Church and Arnold Schneider that was published in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Read More... Full-time MBA Student Gordon Hwang Wanted to Return to Tech for Degree When Gordon Hwang decided to earn an MBA to develop his leadership ability, Georgia Tech’s full-time program was the obvious choice. Read More... Executive MBA Student Tracy Cummings Taking Her Career to Next Level Having built a successful career in information technology, Tracy Cummings enrolled at Georgia Tech College of Management to strengthen her understanding of other business areas. Read More... Georgia Tech's Full-time MBA Ranked 29th by BusinessWeek Georgia Tech College of Management broke into the top 30 of BusinessWeek's latest rankings of the nation's top full-time MBA programs. Read More... IMPACT Series to Feature Silberline CEO Lisa Scheller on November 12 Georgia Tech College of Management’s IMPACT Speaker Series will feature Silberline CEO Lisa Scheller discussing, "An Accidental CEO – Stepping up to Today’s Challenges." Read More... TI:GER Team Syzygy Places in Idea to Product Global Competition A team of Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students placed second in a challenge round of the Idea to Product Global Competition for their plan to commercialize technology from a Georgia Tech Materials Science laboratory. Read More... Charles Evans to Discuss Business of Doing Good Work in November 5 IMPACT Lecture International Health Services Group President Charles R. Evans will discuss "The Business of Doing Good Work" on November 5 in Georgia Tech College of Management's IMPACT Speaker Series. Read More... Learn Revenue Management Strategies for Top Line Growth at Georgia Tech Conference How can companies proactively manage uncertainty? What actions can be taken to assure that they not only survive, but also thrive as circumstances change? Georgia Tech College of Management and Revenue Analytics are providing a forum for discussing these issues as hosts of the Fourth Annual Revenue Management and Price Optimization Conference. Read More... Undergraduate Profile: Michael Warwick Won SEC Internship When Michael Warwick interviewed for an internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission for summer 2008, he noticed that SEC officials were particularly impressed by the high-tech business perspective he was gaining as a management major. Read More... Study: Demand-supply Mismatches Increase Equity Volatility Demand-supply mismatches caused by product introduction delays, excess inventory, and supply chain disruptions lead to a major increase in firms’ equity volatility, according to a new Georgia Tech College of Management study. Read More... Executive MBA Student Neil Kimber Climbs to CTO For Neil Kimber, the next logical step in his career was rising from director of technology for TalentQuest to CTO of the company. He knew he'd need a solid business education to take him there, so he enrolled in Georgia Tech's Executive MBA in Management of Technology. Read More... Study: Women in IT Must Leave Profession to Close Wage Gap Receiving lower pay than their male counterparts has motivated many women to leave the information technology profession in the last 20 years, according to a new study by a Georgia Tech College of Management researcher. Read More... Preparing for Takeoff: Management Training Helping NASA Launch Orion Developing a brand-new spacecraft capable of taking humans into orbit is no easy task. That kind of multi-year, multi-billion dollar undertaking requires an immense amount of project management expertise, says Ellen Ochoa, deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Read More... General Atlantic Chairman Steven A. Denning to Discuss Globalization in October 22 IMPACT Lecture General Atlantic Chairman Steven A. Denning will discuss "Investing for the Long Term: Embracing Globalization" on October 22 in Georgia Tech College of Management's IMPACT Speaker Series. Read More... IMPACT Series Featuring Paul Hofmann of SAP Labs on October 8 Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series will feature SAP Labs' Paul Hofmann on October 8. Read More... Turner Broadcasting System's Jim McCaffrey to Discuss Innovation in October 1 IMPACT Lecture Georgia Tech’s IMPACT Speaker Series will feature Jim McCaffrey discussing innovation at Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) on October 1. Read More... David Herold to Discuss Leading Change in September 24 IMPACT Lecture Georgia Tech’s IMPACT Speaker Series will feature organizational behavior expert David Herold discussing effective ways to approach change management on September 24. Read More... IMPACT Lecture September 17 Features Air Quality Sciences CEO Marilyn Black Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series will feature Air Quality Sciences (AQS) CEO Marilyn Black on September 17. Read More... Ledbetter Establishes Professorship in Real Estate Development In the world of real estate, experience has always been the best teacher. It was this knowledge that led seasoned real estate veteran Robert H. Ledbetter Sr., IM 1958, to make a $1 million gift to the College of Management to establish and endow the Robert H. Ledbetter Sr. Professorship of the Practice of Real Estate Development. Read More... College of Management Dedicates New Acuity Brands Plaza Georgia Tech College of Management dedicated its newly renovated Acuity Brands Plaza in an evening ceremony on September 8. Read More... Philanthropy, Social Change Subject of September 3 IMPACT Lecture by John Bare Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series features a discussion on philanthropy and social change by John Bare on Wednesday, September 3. Read More... College of Management Dedicating New Acuity Brands Plaza on September 8 Georgia Tech College of Management will dedicate its new Acuity Brands Plaza at 7:30 PM on Friday September 8 in front of the business school's building at 800 West Peachtree Street. Read More... New Exec Ed Course on Mastering Management Concepts Runs October 6-10 Georgia Tech College of Management's Huang Executive Education Center is offering a brand-new five-day program on Mastering Management Concepts: Moving from Tactical to Strategic Thinking from October 6-10. Read More... Study: Individual Personal Ties Strengthen Teams' Overall Creativity With more employees working in teams, it's critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work. Read More... Study: Behavior of Online Reviewers Affects Their Credibility Consumers increasingly rely on recommendations in online forums, such as Amazon.com and Angieslist.com, when deciding which products and services to buy. But, in most cases, they've never met the posters of these reviews. Read More... Recent Graduate Colleen Gootee Ready for Major Responsibility at Caterpillar Logistics Supervising workers many years older than her was a little strange at first for Colleen Gootee, 22, who graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in management in spring 2008. Read More... Alumnus Greg Owens Changing the Auction Game with IronPlanet Greg Owens, IM 1982, thinks of his impressive career history like a book – one that he's still writing. Read More... Fall IMPACT Speaker Series Kicks off August 27 with Andy Fleming Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series returns August 27 with a lecture by Andy Fleming, founding principal of Core Growth Partners. Read More... U.S. News & World Report Ranks Georgia Tech's Undergraduate Business Program Among Nation's Best U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia Tech’s undergraduate business program 35th in the nation in the magazine's 2009 guide to “America’s Best Colleges.” Read More... Summer Term Global Executive MBA Students Lending their Expertise to Small-town Cause A chance glance at a hospital bulletin board motivated Global Executive MBA student Joe Urban to aid a disabled girl in rural Alabama. He's enlisted all of his classmates in the drive to help seventeen-year-old Megan Harman live more like a normal teen. Read More... Georgia Tech Offers Summer Finance Camp for Local High School Students Elease Dillard, 15, isn't planning for a career on Wall Street. But she understands that the better she understands finance, the better off she'll be in the future. That's why she decided to enroll in Wall Street on West Peachtree, a day camp for local high school students that ran from July 21 to 25 at Georgia Tech College of Management. Read More... U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao to Speak at College July 30 U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao will speak at Georgia Tech College of Management on July 30, discussing the federal workforce and career development initiatives. Read More... New Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair Holder is Journal of Marketing's New Editor Ajay Kohli, who just joined Georgia Tech College of Management as the Gary T. and Elizbeth R. Jones Chair holder, was also recently named editor of the prestigious Journal of Marketing. Read More... College of Management Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Honors Widely renowned for their research and teaching, College of Managment professors continue to earn prestigious honors, grants, and editorial positions. Read More... Study: Potential Heroes May Go Overlooked in Recruitment of Risky Professions Understanding what makes likely heroes tick might help recruiters of police officers, firefighters, rescue workers, and other risky professions make better hiring decisions, according to a new study. Read More... Undergraduate Student Chinedu Ezeamuzie Gaining Real-world Marketing Experience Unlike a lot of entering freshmen, Chinedu Ezeamuzie knew exactly what kind of career path he wanted to follow when he started at Georgia Tech. Read More... Global Executive MBA Student John Tovar Climbing High at Home Depot When John Tovar learned three years ago that his career at The Home Depot would move him from Los Angeles to Atlanta, the first mental association he made with his future home was Georgia Tech. Read More... New Book by Georgia Tech Researchers Changing How Leaders Approach Change Popular wisdom suggests that about 80 percent of all change initiatives end in failure. More alarming still for top managers, a 2005 survey reported in BusinessWeek found that 31 percent of CEOs fired by their boards were removed because they mismanaged change (more so than for any other reason). Read More... Georgia Tech Offering Summer Finance Camp for Local High School Students Thanks to a new summer enrichment program of Georgia Tech College of Management, 40 local high school students will be able to learn the fundamentals of finance, investments, and financial management. Read More... Spring Term Eight Faculty Members Awarded Term Professorships This Spring Georgia Tech College of Management recognized the vision, achievement, and leadership of its alumni April 25 at the business school's Fifth Annual Awards Celebration, inducting five Georgia Tech College of Management has awarded term professorships to seven more faculty members. Read More... Students, Faculty Recognize Each Other for Excellence As the 2007-08 academic year came to a close, Georgia Tech MBA and undergraduate students took time to honor their peers and faculty members for their dedication and excellence. Read More... Global Executive MBA Student Samuel Gude Owns One of Atlanta’s Fastest-growing Companies Samuel Gude sees Asia in the big picture for his Atlanta-based business, Gude Management Group. Read More... Junior Brandi Herringdine Gaining Real-World Experience through Co-op Program Within a month of starting her Co-op job at Wandering WiFi in early 2007, management major Brandi Herringdine was running the whole marketing department for the wireless technology startup. Her supervisor, the company’s only other marketing person at the time, had left for another job. Read More... College Honors Distinguished Alumni at Fifth Annual Celebration Awards Georgia Tech College of Management recognized the vision, achievement, and leadership of its alumni April 25 at the business school's Fifth Annual Awards Celebration, inducting five leaders into the Hall of Fame, Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and Council of Outstanding Young Alumni. Read More... Georgia Tech Researchers Win 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Prize Georgia Tech researchers recently won the 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award for their holistic examination of strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms for innovating in the realm of biotechnology. Read More... MBA Alumnus Adam Tichelaar Helping Ease Drivers’ Pain Adam Tichelaar, MBA 2006, feels the pain of motorists who must bear the time and expense of trial-and-error car repairs. Read More... Executive Master's Alumna Robin Bienfait Running BlackBerry Operations Like a lot of today’s business leaders, Robin Bienfait always keeps her BlackBerry mobile device within easy reach. She learned to depend on it during her years heading AT&T’s Global Network Services (an operation with 6,000 locations in 137 countries). Read More... Technology and Management Program Attracts First Corporate Affiliate Georgia Tech College of Management is pleased to announce that Caterpillar Inc. is the first company to become a Corporate Affiliate of the Technology and Management Program, which will cross-train undergraduate business and engineering majors. Read More... New Programs Helping Attract Outstanding High School Students to the College New outreach programs are helping attract top high school students to Georgia Tech College of Management by inviting them to special events on campus and bringing high school guidance counselors here as well. Read More... Global Business Forum April 23 to Explore Business Opportunities in Post-Olympic China Georgia Tech's 14th Global Business Forum on April 23 will focus on "Post-Olympic China - Business Opportunities and Challenges for U.S.-based firms." Read More... First-year MBA Students Prevail at Marketing Case Competition Georgia Tech MBA students continue to excel in major business plan and case competitions, frequently surpassing the performance of their peers at the world's best business schools. Read More... Gary Jones Named Professor of the Practice of Finance Georgia Tech College of Management has named Gary Jones as Professor of the Practice of Finance. Read More... Georgia Tech's MBA Program Ranked 29th in U.S. News & World Report Georgia Tech College of Management is ranked 29th (11th among public universities) in U.S. News & World Report's latest rankings of the nation's top full-time MBA programs. Read More... Professor Sundaresan Jayaraman Receives $100,000 State Grant Professor Sundaresan Jayaraman recently received a $100,000 research grant award from the State of Georgia that was personally presented by Governor Sonny Perdue. Read More... College to Hold Alumni Reunion for Executive Master's Graduates Georgia Tech College of Management will hold its first annual Alumni Reception for graduates of the Executive Master's (MBA) in Management of Technology Program on Friday, March 12. Read More... Statistics Show College's Growing Academic Impact in Business and Economics Thomson Scientic’s new ScienceWatch.com site spotlights Georgia Tech for achieving the highest percent increase in total citations in the field of business and economics. Read More... Top IT Executives Participate in Annual Panel Discussion on Technology Strategies When it comes to information technology management, students in Georgia Tech College of Management’s Executive MBA in Management of Technology program get to learn not only from great professors, but also from top executives. Read More... MBA Student Carrie Yang to Assist Financial Accounting Standards Board Carrie Yang has accomplished a first for a Georgia Tech MBA student, winning a prestigious internship position with the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Read More... Evening MBA Student Pratyush Lal Successfully Juggling School and Work For Pratyush Lal, entrepreneurship is a family tradition dating back generations in India. To follow in his forebears’ footsteps as a successful business leader, Lal is earning his MBA through Georgia Tech College of Management’s Evening Program. Read More... J.D. Clockadale Gaining Innovative Edge in Executive MBA in Management of Technology Program When he started his own business several years ago, J.D. Clockadale says he operated like a lot of new entrepreneurs, “learning on the fly.” Read More... AccelerEyes Wins Top Award in 2008 Business Plan Competition for Supercomputing Technology Technology enabling supercomputing on a standard PC won first place in the 2008 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. Read More... Teams Competing for Valuable Prizes in 2008 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition Five final-round teams will compete for a total of $63,500 in prizes on Friday, February 22 in the College of Management's eighth annual Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. Read More... Professors Parsons and Singhal Named Associate Deans Georgia Tech College of Management recently promoted two professors to the associate dean level. Read More... Georgia Tech Students Win Georgia Bowl Business Plan Competition For the first time, Georgia Tech students won first place in the Georgia Bowl Business Plan Competition. Read More... College of Management Faculty Members Receive Numerous Honors College of Management Faculty Members Receive Numerous Honors Read More... Sean Liang, BSM 2007, Taking Fast Track to Success When Zhanxiang “Sean” Liang, BSM 2007, moved from China to the United States at age 14, he had to start in seventh grade because he barely knew English. For two years, he carried a dictionary everywhere he went. Read More... EMBA in Management of Technology Program Paying Off for Stacy Gensler Though Stacy Gensler hasn’t yet earned her Executive MBA in Management of Technology (MOT), she says the degree is already paying off at work. Read More... Top MBA Students Strategize to Expand MedShare's Global Reach at Georgia Tech's First Case Competition MBA students from prestigious business schools competed recently at Georgia Tech College of Management to provide the best strategy for helping MedShare International increase access to medical care around the globe. Read More... Undergraduate Management Majors Showcase Their Skills at Reverse Job and Internship Fair Undergraduate management majors turned the tables on recruiters January 14 at the College of Management’s Reverse Job and Internship Fair. Fifty-two undergraduate students displayed their work on class projects, in research, or through internships to 45 representatives from 24 companies. Read More... Many Top Executives Share Wisdom in Management of Financial Institutions Course Gary Jones is proud that he’s recruited a roster of “business rock stars” to guest lecture in his Management of Financial Institutions class for undergraduate management majors and first-year MBA students this semester. Read More... Georgia Tech Ranked among Top Business Schools in World for Sustainability Georgia Tech College of Management recently made the “Global 100” of MBA programs that are effectively incorporating sustainability and social issues into the classroom and research initiatives. Read More... IMPACT Speaker Series Features Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst on January 16 Whitehurst, who will speak at 4:30 PM in LeCraw Auditorium, will discuss why "The Customer Comes First." Read More... DiagNano Team Excels in Rice University Business Plan Competition The DiagNano student team recently won a challenge round at the Rice University Business Plan Competition for its plan to market nanotechnology-based products for in-vitro cancer diagnostics. Read More...

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