Top Dawg! Ruth Bartlett (BBA ’76) Is the Fifth Consecutive Terry Grad to Serve As President of the UGA Alumni Association You Are the Center of Our Attention
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Fall 2016 Magazine for alumni and friends of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia Alumni’s Top Dawg! Ruth Bartlett (BBA ’76) is the fifth consecutive Terry grad to serve as president of the UGA Alumni Association You are the center of our attention. Building a lasting relationship with you and our community is important to us. And, it all starts with listening and simply being there for you, anytime. It also means understanding your needs and responding with solutions to meet those needs. Like family. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Talk to us today. synovus.com SYNOVUS BANK, SERVING YOU LOCALLY IN GEORGIA AS: Athens First Bank & Trust | Augusta First Bank & Trust | Bank of North Georgia | CB&T Bank of Middle Georgia | Citizens First Bank The Coastal Bank of Georgia | Cohutta Banking Company | Columbus Bank and Trust | Commercial Bank | Commercial Bank & Trust First Community Bank | First State Bank and Trust Company | Georgia Bank & Trust | SB&T | Sea Island Bank Banking products are provided by Synovus Bank, Member FDIC. Divisions of Synovus Bank operate under multiple trade names across the Southeast. Dean’s Message Getting the inside right As 2016 comes to a close, construction of the second phase of Terry’s Business Learning Community is making great progress. The Building Terry campaign, which culminated in 2015, was the largest fundraising effort in the college’s 104-year history. Starting from a $90 million campaign goal, the final fundraising total exceeded $121 million to provide support for all three phases of construction of the Business Learning Community, as well as new endowments for student scholarships, faculty support and academic programs. The BLC – composed of Correll Hall, Amos Hall, and eventually four other named buildings – will give us the state-of-the-art facilities we have long envisioned, replacing the venerable but antiquated Brooks Hall. Now it is time to redirect our attention from a highly successful building campaign to the public phase of the University of Georgia’s $1.2 billion comprehensive campaign and the three campaign commitments that will shape the university’s future, and Terry’s with it, by: • Increasing access to UGA for all qualified students • Enhancing the student experience • Solving world problems through research and outreach. With the new home of the Terry College of Business coming into CASSIE WRIGHT magnificent view at the corner of Lumpkin and Baxter streets, the next step of the campaign is made all the more clear: Change for the better what happens inside those walls. For Terry’s part, we are making the case to our alumni and friends for much-needed endowed support to enhance the student experience, infuse our programs with new offerings and challenging opportunities that prepare our students for a rapidly changing business world, and ensure that financial need is never a barrier to a Terry education and life-changing experiences like study abroad or an internship with a high-potential startup. We are in lockstep with the university’s unprecedented commitment to support experiential learning opportunities [see p. 32 for the full story]. In many ways, experiential learning is at the very heart of many of the most impactful student programs we deliver – from the Institute for Leadership Advancement and the Music Business Certificate Program, to the Student-Managed Investment Fund and the Entrepreneurship Program. And, of course, these amazing student experiences all come together through the brilliance and commitment of our faculty and staff. Endowed faculty positions help us recruit and retain inspiring faculty like Willson Distinguished Chair Jason Colquitt and Sterne Chair of Banking and Finance Annette Poulsen. Jason was recruited to Terry five years ago as the editor-in-chief of the flagshipAcademy of Management Journal and has been an award- winning teacher and valued co-author and mentor in the Management Department, which was recently ranked No. 7 for research productivity in the field’s top journals. Annette has been an all-star teacher and researcher in the Finance Department since joining Terry in 1987 and has advised the highly acclaimed Student-Managed Investment Fund for many years. And they are just two of the many examples of foresight and leadership found within our faculty that I am so honored to serve with and be a part of at the Terry College of Business. Sincerely, Benjamin C. Ayers, Dean Earl Davis Chair in Taxation [email protected] terry.uga.edu 3 Agenda Fine Print JANUARY DEAN Academic Directors Benjamin C. Ayers 12 Georgia Economic Outlook – Augusta ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR PROGRAMS 18 Georgia Economic Outlook – Savannah RESEARCH AND GRADUATE Robert H. Pinckney IV PROGRAMS 19 Terry Third Thursday Marisa A. Pagnattaro EXECUTIVE & PROFESSIONAL Speaker: Derreck Kayongo, CEO, Center for Civil and MBA PROGRAMS Richard L. Daniels Human Rights ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS FULL-TIME MBA PROGRAM 19 Georgia Economic Outlook – Coastal Henry J. Munneke Santanu Chatterjee 20 Georgia Economic Outlook – Swainsboro SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP Donald R. Perry Jr. ADVANCEMENT 23 Georgia Economic Outlook – Columbus Laura M. Little 24 Georgia Economic Outlook – Albany EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI MUSIC BUSINESS RELATIONS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM Martee T. Horne David Barbe FEBRUARY SENIOR DIRECTOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 1 Georgia Economic Outlook – Athens OF MARKETING & Laura L. Clark COMMUNICATIONS 3 Terry Young Alumni Board Meeting Michael Horn University Administration 3 Terry Winter Formal DIRECTOR OF ASSESSMENT PRESIDENT AND RANKINGS Jere W. Morehead 7 Georgia Economic Outlook – Middle Georgia Myra L. Moore SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT 16 Terry Third Thursday DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Speaker: Lee Thomas, Deputy Commissioner, Georgia Film, RELATIONS AND PROVOST Music and Digital Entertainment Office Randy S. Groomes Pamela Whitten 16 Terry Alumni Board Meeting DIRECTOR OF EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS (INTERIM) Terry Magazine Staff Donald R. Perry Jr. 21 Dean’s Alumni Reception in Charlotte EDITOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF David Dodson INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MARCH Brad J. Hunt ART DIRECTOR Marisa Castengera 15 Young Alumni Leadership Dinner DIRECTOR OF THE SELIG CENTER FOR ECONOMIC Contributing Writers: 16 Terry Third Thursday GROWTH Kinsey Lee Clark, Kent Hannon, Speaker: Dennis Lockhart, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Jeffrey M. Humphreys Lori Johnston, Charles McNair, Bank of Atlanta Lynsee Miller, Matt Weeks Department Heads Contributing Photographers: Marisa Castengera, Wingate Downs, APRIL J.M. TULL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING Matt Hardy, Kent Hannon, 14 Terry Leadership Speaker Series Theodore E. Christensen Jason Thrasher, Cassie Wright Speaker: Doug Benn (BBA ’76, MAcc ’82), EVP and CFO, ECONOMICS Contact: The Cheesecake Factory Christopher M. Cornwell David Dodson Communications Director 19 Terry Honors Day FINANCE Terry College of Business Jeffry M. Netter The University of Georgia 20 Terry Third Thursday 107 Brooks Hall Speaker: Glenn Lurie, President and CEO, Mobility and INSURANCE, LEGAL STUDIES Athens, GA 30602-6269 & REAL ESTATE Consumer Operations, AT&T (706) 542-5323 Robert E. Hoyt [email protected] 22 Terry Alumni Awards and Gala MANAGEMENT Terry magazine is published by the Robert J. Vandenberg Terry College of Business Office of MAY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Marketing and Communications. SYSTEMS terry.uga.edu/omc 5 Terry Graduation Convocation Marie-Claude Boudreau Cover photograph by Jason Thrasher MARKETING For more information on Terry events, including MBA Charlotte H. Mason information sessions and employer recruitment, go to: terry.uga.edu/events 4 terry.uga.edu Inventory SNAPSHOT 6 The last Homecoming on Brooks Hall lawn NEWSFEED 8 News about the Terry College of Business RESEARCH AND 14 INNOVATION A little pill can have a big effect on worker absenteeism. Biotech startup MiraBlue Bio took the top prize at a shark tank competition. Study shows the risky business that the Dodd- Frank legislation missed. GATHERINGS 18 UGA PHOTO Seen around Terry College UNIVERSAL RUTH 20 No matter where you look – from Commencement to Homecoming to her own island alumni DONOR PROFILE 37 chapter – you’ll always find Ruth Bartlett (BBA ’76), UGA’s steadfast Alumni Association Executive-in-Residence president, on the scene. Steve Goodroe (BBA ’71) By Kent Hannon GIVING SOCIETIES 38 SILICON JUNGLE 26 Honor Roll, Dean’s Circle Venture capitalist Ryan Gembala (BBA ’03) carefully mapped his of Giving, Pinnacle Society, passage from Athens to the San Francisco Bay. Now he is on Heritage Society, Second safari for “transformational technologies” with the potential to be Century Club, Class Gifts, 1912 Society pathbreakers. By Charles McNair CLASS NOTES/ 61 PASSINGS SOME EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 32 The Terry College’s take on UGA’s impressively big experiential learning initiative prepares students for success after graduation. By Matt Weeks (ABJ ’05, MPA ’11) A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY 63 Shanika Robinson (BBA ’15) watched her family create and grow their Jamaican-owned bakery business into the largest Caribbean franchise in the U.S. But Robinson got her own taste of entrepreneurship at Terry. facebook.com/terrycollege By Lori Johnston (ABJ ’95) twitter.com/terrycollege instagram.com/terrycollege terry.uga.edu 5 Terry’s last Homecoming on the lawn Terry alumni and friends congre- gated for the last Homecoming tailgate on Brooks Hall lawn, the college’s favorite patch of grass on North Campus. The Oct. 15 tailgate was a spirited culmination to a week of Homecoming activities that ended, as it always does, with the Bulldogs playing between the hedges. Decked out in Georgia red, Dawg fans ladled Southern tailgate classics onto their plates while a live band filled the unsea- sonably warm Athens air with an upbeat soundtrack. UGA mascot Hairy Dawg and a squad of Georgia cheerleaders stopped by to pose for photos beneath a canopy of leaves that had just begun their transformation to the yellows and browns of autumn. It was a picture-perfect finale to a tradition dating back to 1922, when the university hosted its first Homecoming.