Social Enterprise
Overview
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta focuses on integrating business principles and market-based solutions to achieve meaningful societal impacts. Students learn how business acumen can be applied to address a wide range of challenges. Through teaching, research and outreach activities, Goizueta provides students and faculty with experiences that deepen understanding of organizations striving to solve the world's biggest problems.
Student fellowships are available for the center which include tuition considerations and a role as a research assistant.
Faculty
Peter Roberts , Associate Professor of Organization and Management
Ray Hill , Assistant Professor in the Practice of Finance
Jan Barton , Associate Professor of Accounting
Susan Hogan , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing
Brad Killaly , Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management
Curriculum and Coursework
Program News
Net Impact Goizueta Receives Silver Status
Kyle Named Executive in Residence
Goizueta, Atlanta talk Sustainability
Fighting Poverty Through Wine
Student Involvement and Networking Opportunities
Through Emory University's alumni network and extensive contacts in the public health and non-profit fields, students have tremendous opportunities to develop first-hand experience working with organizations making a difference in the Social Enterprise area. Goizueta's approach is to offer students a variety of hands-on learning experience that enables graduates to be prepared for non-profit management roles or to serve as volunteer leaders while pursuing corporate roles.
Students also get involved in with co-curricular activities and student-run clubs:
Goizueta Board Fellows
Founded in 2007, the Goizueta Board Fellows Program is a student-run organization which strives to share talents and resources of the school with the metro Atlanta non-profit community through the development of MBA servant leaders engaged in board service. This is a hands-on opportunity to learn about the non-profit space and participate on high-profile boards. Students are involved through meaningful analysis and consulting recommendations.
Microfinance Club
The Microfinance Club at Goizueta manages an investment fund that provides low-interest loans to disadvantaged entrepreneurs while teaching applicative micro-lending practices and procedures to students and stakeholders.
Net Impact Goizueta
Net Impact Goizueta was founded in 2007 with the vision of inspiring and empowering MBA students to act as socially- and environmentally-responsible business leaders that serve as stewards in resource renewal, energy conservation and waste reduction.
EmoryMAC
Overview
EmoryMAC is a unique educational and research enterprise where leading scholars and business leaders assemble and collaborate to address issues related to marketing analytics and performance management for customers, employees and shareholders. As part of a Marketing Analytics certificate program, EmoryMAC provides students the opportunity to work directly with firms solving real-world marketing problems and work with faculty in developing new support models that aid marketing decision making. This research examines the increasingly important role of science-based, competitive strategy and differentiation in marketing management. EmoryMAC is actively involved with its founding partners including Delta and Ariba.
Student fellowships are available for the center which include tuition considerations and a role as a research assistant.
Faculty
Doug Bowman , Professor of Marketing, Area Coordinator
Sandy Jap , Dean’s Term Chair, Professor of Marketing
Tim Halloran , Executive Director, EmoryMAC; Adjunct Professor of Marketing
Curriculum and Coursework
Program News
Conference Explores Power of ‘Data’
Halloran: SkyMiles Changes Big for Consumer
Goizueta Launches Marketing Analytics Center
Student Involvement and Networking Opportunities
Students get involved through coursework and execution of the annual EmoryMAC conference held each spring. The one-day event is open to industry professionals, alumni and students. The conference connects academic theory with industry application and explores the latest marketing analytics techniques being used by top firms.
Real Estate
Overview
Launched in April 2007, the Real Estate Program at Goizueta Business School was developed in response to the industry’s growing demand for MBA-caliber graduates. Located in one of the most active and dynamic real estate markets in the country, Goizueta has strong real estate connections and resources in Atlanta. Through these resources and real estate coursework students gain knowledge and access to the industry. Students train in the nuances of real estate industry, with emphasis on factors that make up the market and the intricacies of properties as an asset in money management.
Faculty
Roy Black , Professor in the Practice of Finance
Marvin R. Banks, Jr., Adjunct Professor
Jim Grissett, Adjunct Professor
Lyle Fogarty, Adjunct Professor
Curriculum and Coursework
Program News
Experts: Real Estate Wounds Slow to Heal
Real Estate Team Wins Case Competition
WABE: Real Estate News on Atlanta’s Biltmore
Grissett on Atlanta Commercial Real Estate
Some Positive Signs in 2011 for Real Estate
Student Involvement and Networking Opportunities
Students in the Real Estate Program work on projects to assist an active alumni group and other practitioners. Real Estate students also take part in case competitions, including one hosted by Roy Black each year at the business school.
Each April, the Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) hosts its own case competition in which Goizueta students have seen unprecedented success. Student teams have placed first for five consecutive years and won eight of the last 12 competitions .
Students who study with a concentration in Real Estate also have many opportunities to develop critical skills and chances to join networking groups.
The MBA Goizueta Real Estate Group (GREG) improves the quality of new and existing communities by expanding the number of well-rounded, principled leaders in the industry. The group meets monthly to offer programming and career networking opportunities for MBA students.
Students also have access to the Goizueta Alumni in Real Estate (GARE), which has grown significantly in the Atlanta area.
CAI
Overview
Founded in 2008, the Emory Center for Alternative Investments focuses on developing research and information, providing education and building community with respect to several areas of alternative investments including private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and real estate. The Center aims to be a global leader in the Alternative Investments industry leveraging a University-based platform to provide independent intellectual support and learning opportunities for Institutional Investors around the world. The center also actively engages asset managers of alternative investments to provide balance, expertise and data in all its activities.
Student fellowships are available for the center which include tuition considerations and a role as a research assistant.
Faculty
Klaas Baks , Executive Director, Assistant Professor in the Practice of Finance
Roy Black , Professor in the Practice of Finance
Mark Bell, Chief Investment Officer at Brand Group Holdings
Jeffrey Busse , Associate Professor of Finance
Kevin Crowley , Adjunct Lecturer in Finance
Narasimhan Jegadeesh , Faculty Director, Dean’s Distinguished Chair of Finance
Kathryn Furman, Partner, King & Spalding Corporate Practice
Dr. Roman Kraeussl, Associate Professor of Finance at VU University Amsterdam
J.B. Kurish , Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance
Chris Rider , Assistant Professor of Organization & Management
Tina Stark, Professor in the Practice of Law and Executive Director of Emory’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice
Nicholas Valerio III , Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance
Curriculum and Coursework
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Healthcare
Overview
Courses in the healthcare concentration provide students with a rigorous theoretical and analytical approach for understanding the complex interactions among participants within and between the different sectors in the U.S. health care system. Courses in the concentration observe healthcare delivery system operational activities and incorporate “real world” managerial and business problems by partnering with Atlanta area healthcare organizations and firms, including Emory Healthcare. Students completing the Healthcare concentration are positioned to anticipate business opportunities and drive future transformations of the healthcare system.
Faculty
Maryam Alavi , Vice Dean of Faculty and Research; John and Lucy Cook Professor of Information Strategy
Steven D. Culler , Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
Anandhi Bharadwaj , Associate Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management
Chip Frame , Adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing
Rick Gilkey , Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management
Brad Killaly , Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management
Curriculum and Coursework
The US Healthcare System: Key Concepts of Financing and Delivering Care
Business of Healthcare
Healthcare Operations and Technology Management
Innovation in the Healthcare Industry
Rollins School of Public Health Courses:
Program News
Alumna Named MedShare CEO
Student Involvement and Networking Opportunities
Students studying healthcare connect in various ways to the industry.
Though the Goizueta Healthcare Association students enrich their MBA experience with healthcare-related coursework, directed studies, internships and extracurricular activities.
Students also host the Goizueta Healthcare Forum which brings together key alumni and top executives in the industry – from marketing, to finance, to consulting, to entrepreneurship – for discussion on emerging topics and critical issues.