By Chad Hartnell Leaders often trumpet organizational culture as a source of competitive advantage, but it can also be the source of an organization’s demise. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen admitted to cheating U.S. emissions tests to grow its market share in vehicles with diesel engines, a scandal blamed […]
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Charter Schools: Changing Property Values in Georgia Communities
Georgia State University researchers are finding that charter schools are having an impact on property values around their communities, potentially providing increased tax revenues for local communities. Researchers dug through a vast amount of data from 2004 to 2013, covering 15 school districts and 52 start-up charter schools in Georgia. They evaluated how home sales […]
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WomenLead: How can we begin to level the playing field?
By Nancy Mansfield The statistics are well known: Women remain severely underrepresented in leadership positions, even though they now earn 60 percent of college and university degrees and are entering the professional workplace in greater numbers than ever. Somewhere along the way they get passed over, get stuck,or drop out. When they get to the […]
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“I Quit!” Predicting When and Why Employees Quit
By Ashley Goreczny, Sarang Sunder and V. Kumar Rather than working employees to the point of burn-out and seeing them leave, retaining employees can save companies millions of dollars, research shows. Quitting employees represent great costs to the firm, particularly in recruitment and training. Managers need to predict, “Which of my employees is likely to […]
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Creating a Digital University with Technology for Teaching and Learning
As we re-examine how we teach, Georgia State is using technology to enable new methods of instruction that can enhance learning moments in and out of class.
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Global Competency on the Business School Agenda
By S. Tamer Cavusgil Most of us have experienced a situation where, in a cross-cultural setting, we found the behavior of a foreign national hard to explain. We perceived this behavior to be odd, unusual, or perhaps improper. We may have felt anger or frustration, or at least felt uncomfortable and awkward. These feelings might […]
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Could Medicaid Expansion Be a Boost to Rural Georgia’s Ailing Economy?
By Carolyn Bourdeaux and Peter Bluestone With the election of Donald Trump as president, the plight of rural America has taken on increased prominence. A September 2016 report by the Center for State and Local Finance estimated that as of 2014 rural areas in Georgia had 58,000 fewer jobs than they had in 2007 (around […]
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Fast-Moving Change and the Scholar-Executive: The Executive Doctorate in Business
Change and adapting to change have become the norm in today’s business world. To be successful, executives need new learning and a more sophisticated understanding of the what’s, how’s and why’s than ever before.
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When Immigration and Refugee Issues Abound, Georgia State Tackles Them Here And Abroad
By Anthony Lemieux and Alexandra Pauley Few issues are as pressing and challenging as the complex interplay between forced migration, immigration and security. In the global city of Atlanta, we have a unique opportunity to study the causes, consequences and responses to significant and rapid increases in forced migration and immigration more broadly. For us, […]
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Diversity and Space to Innovate: Keys to Creating Georgia’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Georgia State’s student diversity is a major untapped resource for generating new ways of thinking and innovation, but most of our students do not know the entrepreneur’s path to success.
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Working To Keep Solar Flares From Affecting Earth: Georgia State Opens South Pole Solar Observatory
Stuart Jefferies, professor of astronomy, sits next to a new instrument at the South Pole Solar Observatory used to measure the sun’s activity. Weather isn’t confined to the clouds of Earth. What goes on with our erupting sun – unleashing plasma, magnetic disruptions and radiation – is part of what’s called space weather. And just […]
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Georgia State Prepares The Next Generation Of Problem Solvers In Business and Society
Georgia State University is preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs who will lead in business and address problems facing society.
