Business Industry

The advertising people are studying our habits and languages, getting into our heads, doing the math and exploiting the gathered intelligence to win us over, telling us what we want before we know it. Angels and devils on the shoulders…

At a time when GEORGIA’S leaders continue to seek an-swers to traffic congestion, transit funding and aging infrastructure issues, community improvement districts, or CIDs, are pushing ahead with creative solutions to the region’s most pressing problems. Georgia has more than…

Biotech boosters are quick to tout the industry’s most virtuous goal: improving the health and well-being of life on the planet through innovative research. The other goal that hardly needs mentioning (and therefore, it rarely is) has to do with…

In 2007, Lil Easterlin was at a meeting in Augusta where Gov. Sonny Perdue was giving a speech, during which he unveiled a program designed to improve Georgia’s workforce. “He talked about this program that worked with educational systems to…

Reproduction can be pressing business, fraught with challenges. But two University of Georgia scientists made a breakthrough discovery in reproduction and regeneration that has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging possibilities, including new therapies for devastating human diseases and the…

When Georgia’s bank closure rate began to accelerate in the fall of 2008 and the number of troubled banks began to grow, it appeared the state was destined to lead the nation in the number of failed banks, which it…

Kirk Wilson says St. Joseph’s Health System was trying to ensure that it would still be providing the kind of care it does today 50 years from now. That’s why it entered into an agreement to merge with crosstown rival…

It’s no secret that times are tough, and the economy has taken a toll on Georgia businesses. Georgia Trend sought out three CFOs – one from a bank, one from a food products company and one from a member-owned power…

Lauri Jo Bennett was realizing two dreams at once. A year ago Bennett, who lives about halfway between Moultrie and Tifton in Norman Park, in the house she grew up in, had just landed the gig she’d been praying for…