September 29, 1952: The New York Stock Exchange ended the Saturday trading session to create a five day work-week. To even out the reduced number of days, a half hour was added to the close of the Monday-Friday trading sessions. That made the sessions open from 10AM -3:30PM. Sources: MarketWatch, Friends of Business History Read Read More …
September 25, 1986: Honeywell announced partnership discussions to join one of its computer operations with the Japanese firm NEC and France’s Groupe Bull. This consolidation was in part due to IBM’s large market size, controlling over 50% in 1986. According to a company official quoted in the New York Times, ”We can’t deal with computers Read More …
Are you working on a project that requires you to gather valuable insights and evidence from a large group of people to support your recommendations? You can now use Qualtrics to build your survey! Earlier this year, Emory’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) acquired an enterprise-wide license of Qualtrics for use by all Emory students, Read More …
September 24, 1936: Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, was born in Greenville, Mississippi. His passion for puppets started in high school, and he would go on to create lovable characters such as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert & Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch. His organizations The Jim Henson Company and the Jim Henson Read More …
To ensure that folks using WSJ.com with an Emory.edu email are, in fact, still current students, staff, or faculty, WSJ requires users to re-activate accounts each year. If you try to login to WSJ, and it’s acting like you don’t have a subscription, it may be time to re-activate! Follow these simple steps to resume Read More …
September 15, 2008: After arduous but unsuccessful negotiations with the federal government and the leading investment banks of the world, Lehman Brothers files for the largest bankruptcy in American history. The company was originally founded in Montgomery, AL in 1850, and moved to New York City in 1869. The bankruptcy blindsided the American economy, leading Read More …
How will this help me? Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) offers a series of hour long workshops available via zoom, focused data visualization and digital scholarship tools. Workshops are held live from 1-2 PM on Wednesdays, and also recorded. To RSVP for any Fall 2024 workshops, and read more about the class descriptions visit the Read More …
You can use S&P’s Screening option to create targeted lists of different company and investment types. For example, to identify a list of PE/VC companies in Atlanta, follow these steps: Click Screening tab at top of page Click Company Screening Look to far right upper part of the screen – click “Go to old Screen Read More …
Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Questionert has nothing on the business librarians when it comes to asking just the right questions to learn things about our Goizueta community that we never knew before! We are continuing our video series, GBL Shorts: Library Questionary with Jaclyn Conner. Check it out!
August 29 1997: Netflix was founded in Los Gatos, CA. They mailed DVDs in little red envelopes, with a huge collection of movies and tv shows to choose from. Ten years later, in 2007, Netflix started offering subscribers the option to stream movies online. Sources: 6 Famous Companies That Launched in Summer (so Don’t Take Time Read More …
