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 explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019. So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS Read More …

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 as an Account Manager before being promoted to his current position. When he’s not at work, Oliver spends his time playing guitar – he is self-taught player of five years and is currently learning Careless Read More …

Goizueta Faculty Interview: Andrea Hershatter on The Speech School, Campus MovieFest, and the Business Research Certificate (Part 2)

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 distinction held by only four undergraduate business programs in the world. Speaking with business librarian Nora Wood, Read More …

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 total market of 20+ different product categories and over 200 brands within these categories: Athletic Read More …

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Business Words of the Year: 1919-1928

As we start celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019.  So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS Read More …

Goizueta Faculty Interview: Andrea Hershatter and the Evolution of the BBA Program (Part 1)

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 distinction held by only four undergraduate business programs in the world. Speaking with business librarian Nora Wood, Read More …

More Group Study Spaces in the Goizueta Business Library

This summer we add an additional group study area in the business library. Located at the back, right corner of the library, next to Bloomberg Terminal 1, there is comfortable seating for up to 8 students, and a 65” digital monitor using Solstice technology. Using WiFi, Solstice allows an unlimited number of students to project images on Read More …

Two Bloomberg Terminals Now in GBL

Over the summer, a second Bloomberg Terminal was added to the Goizueta Business Library. Located at the back of the library, opposite the original terminal, it is set up with a table that will accommodate 3+ students working together, and has the same quad monitor set up just like the other terminal. Now identified as Bloomberg Terminal 1 and Bloomberg Terminal 2, Read More …

This Day in Business History: The FDIC Is Founded as a Provision of the Glass-Steagall Act

June 16, 1933: Following the failure of nearly five thousand banks in 1929, which promulgated the Great Depression, the Glass-Steagall Act was signed into law. As a provision, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was established to protect bank customers’ deposits in the event of future bank failures. Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, Read More …