SOX for Private Companies By: Lynn S. Scott, Partner, King & Spalding LLP Today when we talk or read about “SOX” it usually isn’t the White Sox or even the Red Sox. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) resulted from the highly publicized scandals at ENRON and WorldCom, among others, that caused massive […]

      Improve your Marketing ROI through Email 2.0 By: Joe Schab, CEO, Creative Digital Group Despite a reputation for being skittish when it comes to adopting new technologies, the retail industry is, in fact, showing many other industries the way toward embracing Email 2.0. Tools like video, blogs, RSS, social content sites and […]

    A Primer on Finding the Perfect Candidate By: Vinay Chandra, President, Resourcis, Inc. What have you been doing to find the best candidates for your most important open positions? Having spent a good part of the last decade in the search business, this is a question that I ask a lot, to my […]

Communicating as a Newly Public Company By: Brad MacAfee, Partner & EVP, Porter Novelli – Atlanta During the last year, a number of privately-held technology companies in Atlanta were acquired including JBoss, which was purchased by Red Hat, CipherTrust, which joined Secure Computing and GuardedNet, which became a part of Micromuse (now a property of […]

 How Powerful Brands Impact Economic Development… A Marketing Leader’s Perspective By: Karen See, CEO, Abovo Group Atlanta has the third most Fortune 500s headquartered here (14 total), we are gaining in population, and we are still ranked high as one of the “top” cities to work/live/build a business. Will it be this way forever?

  Enterprise Search – How do you find what you know? By Michael Kogon, CEO Definition 6 Whether you are the CEO of a “backed” company or you view yourself as a shareholders’ advocate, you are charged with creating and capitalizing on the intellectual property of your organization. When employees leave or divisions disappear, valuable […]

    Keeping fit professionally is vital By: Deutsche Bank We all know that it’s not just down to working hard and delivering against objectives. Sometimes, through circumstances beyond your control, you simply don’t get the break you need to make progress. That said, there are a number of common-sense strategies out there that can […]

Hodges L. Golson, Ph.D. President & Founding Partner Management Psychology Group Life’s tough; And life at the top’s tougher than you think By: Hodges L. Golson, Ph.D. Most executives are too busy trying to stay on top of the wide demands of their jobs to reflect on the unanticipated facets of life at the top […]

    Marketing Your Office Space for Sublease By: David J. Rubenstein, Principal, The Miller Richmond Company There are many reasons companies choose to market excess or unneeded space for sublease. However experience shows that it is important to identify potential hurdles, fully understand what you have to sell, and develop a strategy to efficiently […]