Work in the Field
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta offers students opportunities to work with organizations that are themselves dedicated to specific development projects. Given the growing interest in market-based solutions to poverty, we work to develop an ability to analyze and help make business cases for innovative projects, set both close to home in the southeastern United States, as well as within developing nations. These projects are faculty supervised during the summer and are not offered in conjunction with regularly scheduled classes. These opportunities are open to all Goizueta students, graduate and undergraduate.
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Poverty Fighting Wine Industry in EthiopiaProfessor Peter Roberts and a team of 6 students researched the feasibility of encouraging the development of a commercial wine industry in and around Addis Ababa. The team traveled to Ethiopia in July 2010 to assess the prospects of developing an economically-viable and socially-responsible wine cluster and then provided specific recommendations. To learn more, please go here. |
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Ophthalmological Surgical Facility in HondurasIn 2011, Professor Roberts and a team of students completed a plan to help Social Enterprise @ Goizueta client and partner, ECHO Foundation, establish an eye clinic in Honduras that will be a world-class, internationally-accredited and financially sustainable surgical facility that will provide more and higher-quality ophthalmology services to affluent, low-income and indigent Hondurans. To learn more, please click here, and visit Operation ECHO as well. |
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Atlanta Wealth Building InitiativeIn conjunction with the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative created by The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Professor Roberts and a team of students developed a plan for an employee-owned vegetable processing facility in an economically disadvantaged Atlanta neighborhood that will provide locally-grown purchasing options for the major institutions around Atlanta. To learn more about this business proposal, which was completed and presented in October 2012, please click here. |
