Gena Abraham wasn’t like the other little girls. Growing up in a house filled with her older sisters’ dolls, she was more likely to sit on the floor playing project manager, building make-believe homes and cities, shaping her vocational infrastructure.…
Robert Sumichrast is grounded in a reality where physics, philosophy and business converge. He’s an academic, a scientist interested in how things work in the world, and humanity’s place in it. And he thinks he can guide the Terry College…
For decades the only retirees found on or near Georgia’s college and university campuses were rumpled professors shuffling into the library or graying, but still diehard, alumni and sports fans. Today there’s a new – and in some ways energizing…
Georgia’s Got Game: Since 2005, an emerging sector of the Georgia economy has tiptoed its way to importance, barely getting a glance from trend watchers. “It’s very, very low under the radar,” says Georgia Department of Economic Development Deputy Commissioner…
Two years ago, insurers posted their best underwriting performance in 57 years. They did that by emphasizing premium growth over market share. Last year, the industry’s re-focus on fundamental underwriting standards was sorely tested. Insurers flinched and premiums declined, but…
Talk about sports families: Who in the world can top the Rhinos of Atlanta, formerly of Charlotte, NC? In the professional ranks, there were prizefighters, Max and Buddy Baer; in baseball, Joe, Vince and Don DiMaggio, Dizzy Dean and Daffy…
“I feel like I’ve been in the construction business these last six years,” says Bill Jones III of the near-finished, $500 million restoration and expansion of his Sea Island Resorts. “I’m looking forward to getting back to the hospitality business.”…
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Michael Thurmond, sitting in the conference room of his Atlanta office discussing the job market for 2008, zeroes in on a key development. “The first baby boomer [has] qualified for Social Security,” he says. Thurmond is…
Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, provides electrical power to some 2.25 million customers in 155 counties in the state. The firm, which earned $787 million in 2006, formally requested a $406 million rate increase from the…
Like an American flag planted into the lunar surface, the shiny slab of black granite seems oddly out of place amid the hardwoods and rolling hills in a pristine patch of Canton in Cherokee County. It bears the inscription “The…
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