GBA News

Commerce Club
34 Broad Street, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

The GBA is pleased to announce that our kickoff event will be held at Geisha House in Atlantic Station on Friday Aug 21, 2009. RSVP today!

The GBA is proud to announce Reginald J. Price has been appointed as President for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.

Wayne will be speaking about his career at the company, what his job entails, and about opportunities for MBA and MS students in the MSSP space. Wayne will be accompanied by Leslie Humphries, Manager of Human Resources & Recruiting.

Pictures from the Fall 2008 GBA Social.

The twice-yearly cocktail social for MBA & MS students will be held on September 12, 2008 at Vino Libro. For details see below:

Saturday, April 12, 9 am - 6pm We will NO longer be meeting at the Brookhaven or Alpharetta Campuses.  We will meet in the Olive Garden Parking Lot on Barrett Parkway.

Session 1 - March 21 ( Sold Out) Session 2 - April 4 ( Sold Out) Session 3 - April 25

New, current, and former Robinson Graduate Students, faculty, staff will have the opportunity to take golf lessons from PGA Golf Instructor Chris Knobloch. Friday, March 21, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Hurt Park - at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland

The GBA is excited that you will all be joining us for the Hawks Game and Speaker Series with Ailey Penningroth the VP of Strategic Planning. Please arrive by 5:45PM at which time we will be escorted up to the NuVox Conference Room.

There are no more tickets available for the upcoming GBA Hawks event.

Join Renee Jones, executive trainer and etiquette expert, for cocktails, an amazing four-course meal, and a lesson in business etiquette at the Commerce Club. This mix of necessary skill and great food is not to be missed!

Come watch the Atlanta Hawks take on the Cleveland Cavaliers! Friday, February 8th!

Come out to enjoy unlimited food and drinks with your fellow students!

Join MBA Students from the Metro-Atlanta Area At Midtown Tavern.

GBA members may join the new linkedin group.

We have reached capacity on the Etiquette Dinner

Visit the products page for more information!

Join Renee Jones, executive trainer and etiquette expert, for cocktails, an amazing four-course meal, and a lesson in business etiquette at the Commerce Club. This Mix of necessary skill and great food is not to be missed!

Join us on for this interactive panel discussion and more about the ups and downs of this fast growing career field! October 18th at 5:30 PM in the Commerce Club - Brown Room

Come join GBA and FHE in volunteering for Hands On Atlanta

Come out to enjoy a ball game, feast on All-You-Can-Eat Food, learn about marketing and CRM from the Director of Guests Services, Robert George, and Earn Speaker Series Credit!

Executive Luncheon - Pin Pin Chao - President Summit National Bank

Executive Luncheon - Dick Sullivan - EVP Marketing Falcons

Thanks to Axel Leblois and all who attended for a terrific event.

Thanks to all of our volunteers and clientele.

Thank you Mr. Abood (District Director for SCORE) for participating in this lunch.

Thanks to Clark Howard, famous radio show host and consumer advisor on WSB-RAdio 750AM, and everyone involved with the Habitat for Humanity project.

Thank you Mr. Hughes (Sr. VP, Communications of Atlanta Spirit) for participating in this lunch.

Here are some pictures taken at the Thrashers Event. Thanks go out to everyone for coming and helping start off the 2006 GBA year with a bang.

Check out these pictures from our end of semester social for Fall 2005. Thanks to everyone for showing up and making it a great time. Special thanks to the Black MBA Student Association for co-hosting the event.

Hands on Atlanta pictures

Here are some pictures from the Dean's Forum - Downtown.

Here are some pictures from the Dress for Success Event - Alpharetta.

Here are some pictures from the Beginning of the Semester Social hosted at the Westin.

Here are the pictures from the Socail last night. What a great event!!!

Thank you Mr. Giles (President and CEO of Clarity Matters) for participating in this lunch.

We are requesting that students bring textbooks that they won't use for charity.

Congratulations go out to Frank Weber, the new President for the 2005-06 school year.

Thank you Mr. Abood (District Director for SCORE) for participating in this lunch. Also thanks goes out to Eric Kimmerling for being a gracious host at the Georgian Club.

Thank you Mr. Baker (Publisher of the Atlanta Business Chronicle) for participating in this lunch. A special thank you goes out to Irene Lafleur for all the help she has given us with setting the lunches up at the Commerce Club.

We want to give a special thanks to Jeff Schumacher and Lisa Blondell for the HOURS they spent in putting this picnic together. Thanks also go out to Frank Weber and especially Dennis Lange for building a tap and supplying the beer for the picnic.

We want to thank Craig Mendel in his help in organizing the event. We also want to thank Ben Oviatt for moderating it. Also, a very special thank you goes out to Herman Russell, Jim Balkcom, Jim Beach and Gary Giles for participating.

Thanks go out to Jim Senn for inviting us to co-sponsor this event. Also, thanks go out to Ingrid Pepper and Bill Woolery for all of their help in the EMBA department.

Thanks go out to Melissa Liu for organizing the event. We want to give honorable mention to John Yuan, Lina Li, Jeff Schumacher and Raymond Liu for the extroadinary effort at the home site. These individuals went way beyond the expectations of the GBA.

Special thanks go out to Craig Mendel, Jim Senn, Bill Woolery and Ingrid Peper as well as Brad Bradshaw (President of Nissan Canada).

Thank you Mr. Lenny (CEO of Hershey's) for giving a great speech and Q&A session!

Thank you Dean Fenwick Huss for your time.

Thanks go out to Renee Jones for providing instruction and Trupti Vyas and Diane Fennig for organizing the event.

If you are interested in becoming the President of the Graduate Business Association, please send your resume and statement of interest to gba@gsu.edu.

For those of you that are interested, the deadline for purchasing a ticket to the etiquette dinner is March 1st at 3 PM. Please go to the products page on the website to reserve your seat.

Thank you Mr. Cantrell (former CEO of Laniew Worldwide and board member for Ann-Taylor stores) for participating in this event.

Thank you Mr. Concha (President of Georgia Pacific's Chemicals Division) for participating in this event.

Thank you Mr. Dunn (former President of Coca-Cola NA and current President of Grassy Lake Partners) for participating in this event.

We would like to thank the panelists Rod McGeachy (VP of Marketing for Russell Atheltic), Greg Watson (Director of Marketing to McDonald's for Coca-Cola), and Jim Pfeifer (VP of Marketing for the Atlanta Spirit) for participating in the event. We would al

Thanks go out to Melissa Liu and Dana Sause for organizing this event.

Thanks go out to Mr. Correll (CEO of Georgia Pacific) for the excellent speech.

We would like to thank Amanda Brown-Olmstead for inviting us to participate in this event. Special thanks also go out to Niki Klonaris, Jelena Crawford, Dave Bloomquist, Wendy Bojnowski and the other GBA members that participated.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our second recruiter's panel of the semester.

Thanks to everyone who came out and worked with the Salvation Army Angel Tree Program.

Thank you to all who participated in the Hawks Night with Michael Gearon Jr (One of the owners of the Atanta Spirit (Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers and Philips Arena)). Special thanks also go out to Tom Hughes, Kenan Woods, Wayne Watts, and David Elgin

The Hawks deadline is this Friday the 12th at Noon to get tickets to this special event.

Thank you to Mr. Littell and to all those who participated in this workshop.

Congratulations to all the winners of the Lunch with the Dean Raffle

Thanks to everyone for coming out to this great event!

Thank you for participating in Hands on Atlanta!

The business school is looking for volunteers to help out with Expo. Benefits of volunteering include meeting the employers before Expo, having access to the restricted area, and knowing which companies will be interviewing MBA candidates the next day.

Due to the horrendous weather on Thursday from tropical storm Ivan, the Dean's forum has been rescheduled.

Thank you to Stella Ringer (Coca-Cola), Carolyn Cartwright (SunTrust), and Lani Hall (General Electric) for participating in this panel. Special thanks also go out to Dirk Duran Smith for moderating it.

Thanks for joining us for our first social of the Fall '04 Semester!

Ron Grabowski, the President of the GBA, discusses the GBA's agenda for the 2004-05 academic school year.

Ron Grabowski: GBA President for 2004-05

See pictures from our social celebrating the end of the Fall '04 Semester!

Congratulations to Ken Higa

Here are some pictures from the Beginning of the Semester Social hosted at the Westin.

Here are some pictures from the Dean's Forum - Downtown.