Help Desks For Business
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…
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A Change In Strategy
Jerry Jennett is a hardnosed Valdosta businessman who keeps one eye on the bottom line and the other on opportunities for growth through expansion and the acquisition of marginally profitable companies that he can buy and improve. As CEO of…
Building It Green
Sustainability is hardly a trend. It’s more of a movement – and it’s happening from within. In a time of slow growth, builders are shifting from fast and cheap to the affordably sustainable model. It hasn’t exactly galvanized a non-start…
Georgia's Biotech Future
It was the kind of blockbuster news that gave hope to the dying, a bullish revelation that sent stock prices soaring. After decades of theorizing and testing and coming up with mostly nothing, medical scientists found a way of stimulating…
The Business Of Incarceration
Georgia’s prisons have had a bit of an image problem for a long time. Robert E. Burns’ best-selling book, I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang, brought the brutalities of the state’s penal system front and center to…
Mode Shift
Although Georgia leaders requested more than a billion dollars in federal American Recovery and Rein-vestment Act “TIGER” funds, when the awards announcement was made earlier this year, the state came away with nothing. The reason? Too much emphasis on road…
2010 Family Business Awards
The satisfactions of running a successful family business far outweigh the challenges, this year’s winners say. It helps to be enthusiastic – even passionate – about what you do. The 2010 Family Business Award recipients were selected by the Cox…
“We’re Doing Just Fine”
With several notable bank collapses in Georgia over the past 12 months and a rising number on the sick list, the state’s 165 credit unions have been quiet, a condition their executives seem to enjoy. In fact, credit unions across…
Pushing For Reform
Sharon Jenkins Tucker is living her second life. The first one fell apart and vanished like a dream. “I had a fabulous job,” says Tucker, who was putting her master’s degree to work as international admissions counselor for her alma…
2010 Industry Outlook
The director of the Selig Center for Economic Research at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business reports on prospects for some key Georgia industries this year. Lumber and Wood With the end of the homebuilding recession, production of…
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