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Diverse beyond our walls

You Don’t Need to be in the Right Position to Move in the Right Direction

Diversity is a commitment to nurture and challenge the unique perspectives that will shape the future of business. It's a commitment to innovate in traditional fields and embrace emerging insights. It is the foundation of our intentions and actions. It is one of the core values by which we lead.

Voices of Goizueta

    • Student Participants

      in the 2021 John R. Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition
    • Microbusinesses by People of Color

      Supported by the Start:ME Accelerator
    • Women in Leadership

      on Goizueta Business School's senior & program leadership teams

      Goals

      • Enrich Our Community

        Exposure to cultural knowledge with an aim of increased self-awareness
      • Reflect Broader Society

        Achieve a composition of our faculty, staff, and student body that fully reflects the broader society
      • Improve Equity

        Inspire our community members to leverage the power of diversity to improve equity in business and society

        DEI Initiative Highlights

        • Culture & Inclusion Academic Concentration

          Delivered by faculty members with deep expertise in this important aspect of business culture; a minimum of three qualifying electives are required to earn the designation
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        • Start:ME Accelerator

          A program providing Atlanta entrepreneurs training, mentorship, and capital (82% of the 300+ micro-businesses supported are owned and operated by entrepreneurs of color)
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        • Strategic Alliances & Student Clubs

          Partnerships with a range of organizations to create opportunities for professional growth and learning for underrepresented and underfunded communities
        • Ally Education Series

          A forum for self-education and a safe space for honest dialogue for faculty, staff, students, and alumni seeking to be allies
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        • NextGen Finance

          A strategic, structural, and sustainable approach to increase diversity of thought and background across the finance field
        • LeadHERship Program

          Delivers a range of signature events and intimate workshops to create a bonded community and strengthen the professional networks
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        Degrees of Possibility

        With an impressive suite of degree and non-degree programs tailored to pique student interests and meet their needs for professional and personal growth, Goizueta Business School delivers academic offerings with a profoundly personal and highly transformational experience.

        Diverse Mindsets & Experiences

        We believe in diversity in all its forms – people, perspectives, experiences. Goizueta delivers this mix of diversity inside and outside the classroom using Atlanta and the world as the setting for learning and doing. Bold, welcoming, dynamic, diverse, and thoroughly innovative – Atlanta is third in the nation for Fortune 500 headquarters and home to some of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Goizueta is connected to it all – and you can be too. If you’re ready to learn how to be a business innovator in a global city, this is it. Go disrupt. Go create. Go reimagine. Go innovate.

        A Global Commerce Capital

          Diversity in Theory & Practice

          • Racial Bias is Everywhere

            Debunking the misconception that only racists are biased
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          • Recessions Stoke Racial Tensions

            Research reveals uptick in hostility toward Black Americans during tough economic times.
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          • Why are U.S. corporate boards under-diversified?

            The systemic shortage of female and minority executives making it onto shortlists for board appointments
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            Roberto C. Goizueta

            Former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company

            “We must all by deed and by example create the community we want.”
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