The Global Perspectives Program at Emory

Who We Are:

The Global Perspectives
Program

Faculty

Jeffrey Rosensweig - Director
Shezad Mian - Global Finance
Sundar Bharadwaj - Global Marketing
Lori Sullivan - Instructor

Research Associates

Paul Coloma
George Iliev
Jinali Desai

Research Assistants

Michael Hudson
Gabrielle Broadie
Tiffany Soo
Matt Cohen
Elliot Strumlauf

THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES PROGRAM is a successful innovation in graduate management education. This Program connects the business community on a local and global basis to Emory University’s diverse student body. It features CEO-level speakers in public symposia, and in the largest course for MBA students at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. Taught since January 1989, the course involves roughly 150 MBA students each Spring and 100 executive MBA students each Autumn. A Directed Study option is also available to BBA and MBA students.

DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURERS: President Jimmy Carter (eight times); Jamaican Prime Ministers P. J. Patterson and Michael Manley; Republic of Georgia Prime Minister Lado Gurgendize (a former research assistant in the Program); Ambassador Andrew Young; Rajmohan Gandhi; Major General Perry Smith (fourteen times); Medal of Honor recipient Jack Jacobs (five times) Japan's Ambassador to Great Britain, Kazuo Chiba (twice); Great Britain, Austria, Greece, and Singapore's Ambassadors to the U.S. (twice each); and the following Chairmen and/or CEOs: the late Roberto Goizueta of Coca-Cola, Jan Leschly of SmithKline Beecham (twelve times), Bernie Marcus of The Home Depot (seven times), Arthur Blank of The Home Depot (eight times), Dan Amos of AFLAC (eight times), Mylle Bell Mangum of MMS Incentives (six times), Nick Shreiber of Tetra Pak (five times), Ed Artzt of Procter & Gamble (four times), Tom Chapman of Equifax (three times), Philip Carroll of Shell Oil, Don Keough of Allen & Company (three times), Tom Johnson of CNN, Jim Blanchard of Synovus Financial (four times), James Harmon of the US Export-Import Bank, Helene Gayle of CARE (three times), David Abney of UPS International (five times), Stephen Carter of Superior Essex, among others.