This Day in Business History: America’s First Five and Dime Store Opens
February 22, 1878: The first F.W. Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1878 in Utica,…
Blog
Featured
7 Things to Do at the Library before You Graduate from the Bschool
So it’s finally safe to countdown the days to graduation. Congratulations! You’re almost to the finish line. But before you…
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Business Words of the Year: 1929-1938
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to…
Can I search Bloomberg Businessweek magazine using a GBL database?
Yes! The full text is available in Business Source Complete. Browse and search full text articles in PDF from 12/30/1996…
This Day in Business History: St. Valentine’s Day Becomes Big Business
February 14, 1913: Hall Bros. of Kansas City, MO (later known as Hallmark) offers its first valentine postcards. Two years later, a…
Decoding Disruptive Innovation: An Interview with GlobalData’s Oliver Allen
Oliver Allen is a Senior Account Manager at GlobalData. Oliver started work at GlobalData two and a half years ago…
Recent Blog
This Day in Business History: Facebook Is Founded
Feb 4, 2004: Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook. By December 2004, 1M people were using Facebook. The social media network now has 1.49 billion daily active users on Facebook...
Goizueta Faculty Interview: Andrea Hershatter on The Speech School, Campus MovieFes ...
Andrea Hershatter is Senior Associate Dean and Director of the BBA Program in Emory’s Goizueta Business School. She has led this program for approximately two decades and has helped to achieve nine consecutive Businessweek ranking in the Top 10, a...
This Day in Business History: Apple Macintosh Goes on Sale
Jan 24, 1984: The Apple Macintosh computer first goes on sale, featuring a graphical user interface and a mouse. Two days prior to the sale, Apple announced the new computer’s launch via a dramatic ad during Super Bowl XVIII. In the first three...
Consumer Brand Data at your Fingertips
The Goizueta Business Library has just added Consumer Brand Analytics (CBA) to its marketing databases. Drawn from a nationwide study of 5000 consumers ages 13 and over about their preferences and use of consumer brands, CBA provides analytics for the...