Georgia Tech invited business and civic leaders Wednesday afternoon to visit the site where the future High Performance Computing Center was given its code name – Coda.
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Commentary: Coca-Cola promotes foundation leader from within
One of the most important civic roles in Atlanta is the person who heads the Coca-Cola Foundation. The Coca-Cola Co. just named Helen Smith Price as the new president of its foundation – succeeding Lisa Borders, who left in March to become president of the WNBA.
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Atlanta Bicycle Coalition moving to bigger offices on Wylie Street
By Maria Saporta The success of the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition can be measured in the frequency the nonprofit has had to move its offices in the last eight years. And now the Coalition is on the move again. During the last week in April, the ABC will be moving from its current offices on Kirkwood […]
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Mayor Kasim Reed talks about being a family man and his post mayoral plans
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta Tuesday, got personal –talking about how becoming a family man had changed him.
In a moment of candor, the mayor admitted that at home he does not call the shots. For example, he said he wanted his daughter, Maria, to become a student in Atlanta’s public schools. But his wife was a student at the Pace Academy and went to the Suzuki school, a Montessori pre-school. So his daughter is going to the Suzuki School.
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Helen Smith Price named new president of Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Co. is naming Helen Smith Price as the new president of the Coca-Cola Foundation as well as the company’s vice president of Global Community Affairs – beginning her new role on April 16.
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Commentary: Ted Turner is a cornerstone of UN philanthropy
When Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner gave $1 billion in 1997 to establish the U.N. Foundation, it broke the mold of major philanthropic contributions.
Nearly 20 years later – Turner received the Global Philanthropist Award from UNICEF’s Southeast region at its Children First event on March 30.
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Bill Pulte III, grandson of founder, says PulteGroup is staying in Atlanta
The Pulte family wanted to send Atlanta a message Tuesday morning.
The company that Bill Pulte Sr. founded in 1950 is not moving its headquarters out of Atlanta. That’s what Bill Pulte III said in a phone interview Tuesday morning.
The younger Pulte even said he will be spending a lot more time in Atlanta seeking to fill the void left by the future departure of Richard Dugas, the CEO of PulteGroup.
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Pulte’s Richard Dugas on Atlanta: ‘I’m here to stay. I love Atlanta.’
Although his tenure as CEO of the PulteGroup is tenuous, Richard Dugas is sure about one thing. He is staying in Atlanta.
On Monday morning, the Atlanta-based PulteGroup announced that Dugas had informed the board of his intention to retire at the company’s annual meeting in May 2017.
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Column: Late John Imlay lives on through robust foundation
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 25, 2016
John Imlay, the late Atlanta technology giant and philanthropist, passed away suddenly from a heart attack a year ago on March 25. But Imlay, who was larger than life when he was alive, will live on through a much more robust family foundation.
In anticipation of its increased role, the Imlay Foundation is naming its first outside executive director – Rob Smulian, previously vice president of philanthropy for the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.
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Commentary: Rescuing Grady Hospital a life-saving choice
Ten years ago, Atlanta’s Grady Hospital was facing insolvency. A group of business and civic leaders stepped in, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, to transform the aging hospital into providing best-in-class healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured.
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College Football Hall of Fame names Dennis Adamovich as its new CEO
A veteran sports and entertainment branding expert has been named as the new CEO of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Dennis Adamovich, 53, has had more than 20 years of experience leading brand strategy, marketing and digital technologies for entertainment and sports – working across multiple platforms.
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Atlanta Committee for Progress names Duriya Farooqui as its next director
As a symbol of how important the Atlanta Committee for Progress has become to the business community, Duriya Farooqui has been named the new executive director of the public-private organization starting on May 2.
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Business leaders thank Gov. Nathan Deal for vetoing HB 757
Business leaders Monday were quick to applaud Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision to veto of HB 757, even though many expressed concern that the controversy over “religious freedom” legislation would not be going away.
“The Georgia Chamber agrees with Governor Deal’s thoughtful reasoning to veto HB757,” according to a statement from Hank Linginfelter, an executive with AGL Resources who is the 2016 chair of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
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Commentary: Ga. Tech envisions blueprint for greener future
Georgia Tech has just selected the architectural team of Lord Aeck Sargent and the Miller Hull Partnership to design what is expected to be the most environmentally-friendly building in the Southeast.
Imagine a building that produces more energy and water than it uses.
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Former Atlanta Constitution editor Hal Gulliver – a true old-style news guy – passes away
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A veteran Atlanta newsman – Harold S. Gulliver – passed away Thursday morning in a Valdosta Alzheimer’s facility, where he had lived for the past few years.
My mentor George Berry sent me an email telling me of the sad news – bringing me back to an amazing time when I was privileged enough to be a youngster in a gang of newspaper legends, politicians, historians and intellectual greats.
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Georgia business groups urge governor to veto HB 757
Top Georgia business leaders now are looking toward Gov. Nathan Deal to continue his stance against discrimination – as it relates to HB 757 – also known as the religious freedom bill.
Richard Dugas, president and CEO of the Pulte Group who chairs the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Public Policy Advisory Board, spoke out strongly against the the bill, which has now passed both the Georgia House and Senate and will rest on the governor’s desk.
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Commentary: Atlanta Inquirer continues tenacious journalism
In the early 1960s, the Atlanta Student Movement bubbled up from the historically black colleges on the west side of downtown.
They wanted to be able to eat at restaurants, shop at department stores and not live as second-class citizens.
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Architectural team selected for Georgia Tech’s ‘Living Building Challenge’
The architectural team of Lord Aeck Sargent and the Miller Hull Partnership has been selected by Georgia Tech to design the Living Building Challenge 3.0 project – expected to be the most sustainable building in the Southeast.
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Fulton, Atlanta weigh local legislation route to fund transportation
Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves met with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed last week to work on possible “local legislation” compromise for transportation funding that would address MARTA’s expansion plans.
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Atlanta marks International Women’s Day with a focus on global challenges
International Women’s Day came to Atlanta Tuesday.
The World Affairs Council of Atlanta thought it was about time for our city to mark the day, according to Charles Shapiro, its president and CEO.
So the Council brought together a panel of Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College; Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE; and Joyce Adolwa, CARE’s director of education programming.
