By Rebecca Baggett, MPH, Director, Programs and Communications, Emory Global Health Institute On Nov. 10, more than 250 members of the Clarkston refugee and immigrant communities, Emory and Georgia State University (GSU) researchers and volunteers, and community organization representatives met at GSU’s Clarkston campus to learn from each other and lay a foundation for future […]
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New Ph.D. Program Trains Students In Tackling Complex Urban Challenges
By Jan Nijman, Director and Distinguished University Professor, Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University This fall, Georgia State University will offer a new Ph.D. program in Urban Studies next fall, the first of its kind in Georgia and only the second in the southeastern United States. The program will give students at the highest […]
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How Relationship Conflict Between New Employees and Coworkers Affects Performance
Employees need many resources, especially task-related information, to fulfill their job responsibilities. But what if conflict between coworkers makes it difficult to obtain information necessary to perform their jobs? Conflict among coworkers is immensely harmful to work performance. It impedes information flow, negatively affects the ability of employees to do their jobs and is especially […]
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Working Differently to Achieve Better Results
By Kathryn Lawler, executive director, Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI) For several years, Atlanta has made headlines as the city with the greatest income inequality in the United States. Compared to other large metropolitan areas in the U.S., Atlanta has ranked the lowest or among the lowest for the last five years. Atlanta […]
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Georgia State University’s 2018: Innovation, Student Success and Discovery
Georgia State University’s reputation continued to rise in 2018, and the university is now widely recognized as the national leader in programs and initiatives that foster student success. Now ranked as the second most innovative university in the country by U.S. News & World Report, Georgia State continues to improve, refine and seek out new […]
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The Factors Affecting Expansion of Family Businesses
Family businesses have different priorities and agendas than nonfamily businesses. Controlling owners are likely to make strategic decisions based on family interests, values, identity and social status. Qian (Cecelia) Gu of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business conducted a study drawing on a sample of Taiwanese family business groups to examine how […]
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Ringing Up Goodwill Through Checkout Charity
Checkout charity, a phenomenon where cashiers or self-service technologies solicit charitable donations from customers during the payment process, is quickly becoming an established aspect of many retail and service experiences, including restaurants. It is a controversial practice, because many managers believe it is detrimental to the frontline service experience and thus hurts sales. But the […]
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Changing the Landscape of our Prisons, One Person and One College Course at a Time
By Katherine D. Perry, Associate Professor of English and Cofounder and Coordinator of the Georgia State University Prison Education Project Georgia State University’s Prison Education Project at Perimeter College (GSUPEP) was awarded a $210,000 grant in October from the Laughing Gull Foundation to help accomplish its mission to educate people in Georgia prisons. Led by […]
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Forecaster: Corporate Sector Bounce-Back Leads Georgia Job Growth
Georgia’s job additions in the third quarter nearly equaled the total job additions in the first half of 2018, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. “In the first six months of 2018, the Peach State saw job gains of 35,600, just slightly […]
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Building Health and Well-Being in Clarkston: Georgia State Hosts Refugee and Immigrant Health and Wellness Alliance Community Summit, Nov. 10
By Mary Helen O’Connor and Heval Kelli Metro Atlanta is home to the second-fastest growing population of foreign-born residents in the United States. According to the Atlanta Regional Commission, immigrants accounted for nearly two-thirds of the city of Atlanta’s population growth in the last decade. More than 17,000 refugees have arrived in DeKalb County since […]
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Why We’re Training The Next Generation Of Lawyers In Big Data
By Charlotte Alexander and Anne Tucker Artificial intelligence is transforming the traditional delivery of legal services. In general terms, the set of tools broadly called “legal analytics” promises to do two things: increase the efficiency of tasks that once required substantial time and human effort, and mine masses of data to discover new insights that […]
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Which Works Better, Carrot or Stick? Implementing Effective Employee Whistleblowing Systems
By Flora Zhou, Assistant Professor of Accountancy, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University Firms are under increasing pressure to implement effective internal whistleblowing systems to avoid the potential Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation, fines and negative publicity associated with external whistleblowing. While firms can provide incentives to encourage internal whistleblowing, it remains […]
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GSU Welch School of Art – MFA Open House 10/12/18. Photos by Kelly Jordan
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Georgia State And Georgia Tech Awarded $2.25 Million Grant To Establish Atlanta Global Studies Center
Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology have established the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), a National Resource Center and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program funded by a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The interdisciplinary center will focus on research and instruction geared to student populations […]
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What Does it Take for All Atlantans to be Healthy?
By Kathryn Lawler, executive director, Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI) Eating right, exercising, maintaining social connections, avoiding smoking and illegal substances and practicing safer sex. We have all heard this advice before. But for many Atlantans this advice rings hollow. Many in our community don’t have the option to choose healthy food. There […]
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Hunger Impacts Georgia Businesses: Have You Asked Your Employees?
By Debra Kibbe, senior research associate, Georgia Health Policy Center The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.” In Georgia, more than one in five children (21percent) live in food insecure households. The national average is 18 percent. About one in […]
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Forecast: Domestic-Demand Sectors Will Drive Georgia Job Growth
Georgia’s job creation in the first six months of 2018 primarily arose from domestically driven sectors, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. The state created 36,300 jobs in the first half of the year, lower than the last half of 2017 and […]
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Are Hedge Fund Managers’ Charitable Donations Strategic?
By Vikas Agarwal, Talmage Dobbs, Jr. Chair and Professor of Finance, J. Mack Robinson Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University There is a large body of research on individuals’ charitable giving, but the extent to which business professionals, such as hedge fund managers, strategically donate personal wealth to further their business interests has not received much […]
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Georgia State Has Record Freshman Class, Increase In Academic Quality, for Fall 2018
Georgia State University has enrolled the largest freshman classes in its history this fall at the university’s downtown campus and the five campuses of Georgia State’s Perimeter College. At the Atlanta Campus, more than 4,600 first-year students enrolled at the university, an increase of 700 students compared to the fall semester of 2017. The class […]
