Goizueta Business School
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| Goizueta Business School | |
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| Established | 1919 |
| Type | Private |
| Dean | Larry Benveniste |
| Location | Atlanta, GA, USA Coordinates: 33°47.4′N 84°19.28′W / 33.79°N 84.32133°W |
| Affiliations | Emory University |
| Website | goizueta.emory.edu |
Goizueta Business School (GBS) (pronounced goy-swet-ah) is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company. It is currently ranked as the 3rd best institution for undergraduate business education in the nation - as published by Business Week earlier in 2011.
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[edit] Academics
| School rankings (overall) | |
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| U.S. undergraduate business | |
| Bloomberg BusinessWeek[1] | 3 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg BusinessWeek[2] | 22 |
| Forbes[3] | 22 |
| U.S. News & World Report[4] | 22 |
| Worldwide MBA | |
| Economist[5] | 28 |
| Financial Times[6] | 38 |
The school offers a wide range of specializations, including Finance, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Management. Degrees are offered from the undergraduate through doctoral levels, in addition to executive education.
Seven degree programs are offered:
- Undergraduate Business Degree (BBA)
- Two-year full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- One-year full-time MBA
- Weekend Executive MBA
- Modular Executive MBA
- Evening MBA
- PhD in Business program
Goizueta Business School is AACSB Accredited.
[edit] Notable Faculty
- Narasimhan Jegadeesh - Dean's Distinguished University Chair in Finance
- Benn Konsynski - George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis
- Jeffrey Rosensweig - Director, Global Prospectives Program
- Jay Shanken - Goizueta Chair in Finance
- Jagdish Sheth - Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Marc Adler - CEO of Macquarium
- Paul S. Amos II - President, Aflac; Chief Operating Officer, Aflac U.S.
- Michael Cascone - COO of Discovery Digital Media, GM of HowStuffWorks.com, previous EVP of Homestar Runner
- John Chidsey - CEO of Burger King
- Marvin Ellison - Executive Vice President, The Home Depot
- Brian Gallagher - President and CEO of the United Way of America
- Lado Gurgenidze - Prime Minister of Georgia
- Billy L. Harbert - CEO of BL Harbert International
- Alan J. Lacy - Former Chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo - half-brother of Barack Obama
- Duncan Niederauer - CEO of NYSE Euronext
- Jordan S. Pious - Winner of The Amazing Race 16
- Lin Rogers - CEO of Rogers Electric
[edit] See also
- Emory Center for Alternative Investments
- List of United States business school rankings
- List of business schools in the United States
[edit] References
- ^ "Business School Rankings and Profiles: Undergraduate". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/. Retrieved 2011-1-19.
- ^ "Business School Rankings and Profiles: MBA". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/. Retrieved 2011-1-19.
- ^ "Best Business Schools". Forbes. 2011. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/95/best-business-schools-11_land.html. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ "Best Business Schools". U.S. News & World Report. 2011. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings. Retrieved 2011-1-19.
- ^ "Which MBA". The Economist. 2011. http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ "Global MBA Rankings". Financial Times. 2012. http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2012. Retrieved 2012-2-14.
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