Features

Business Industry, Features, Health Care

The Hits Keep On Coming

Randy Southerland,

Earlier this year when athenahealth Inc. was seeking a headquarters for a major expansion of its sales, implementation and customer service operation, the Watertown, Mass.-based company bypassed many traditional tech centers for Ponce City Market in Atlanta. The $4-billion company,…
Education, Features

Kennesaw State At 50

Patty Rasmussen,

Kennesaw State University is all grown up. Originally chartered as a two-year junior college 50 years ago – Oct. 9, 1963, to be precise – KSU is now the third-largest university in Georgia with more than 24,600 students from 132…
Education, Features

Core Connections

Patty Rasmussen,

  Folks driving along busy Peachtree Road north of Buckhead have probably caught a glimpse of Oglethorpe University behind the stone walls and wrought iron fencing and imagined the place to be exclusive and stuffy. Those folks would be wrong.…
Business Industry, Features, Health Care

Cell Mates

Jerry Grillo,

  Nick Boulis has the audacity to believe, out loud, that discoveries and therapies designed to improve the human condition – world-changing breakthroughs that have been happening and are happening right now in Georgia – are just as important as…
Education, Features

Class Act

Jerry Grillo,

  Barbara Grimm couldn’t imagine sending her son Will to their Savannah neighborhood’s middle school, where the academic expectations were low and discipline was almost nonexistent – not the combination she was looking for. Grimm, a teacher who left the…