Elease Dillard, 15, isn't planning for a career on Wall Street. But she understands that the better she understands finance, the better off she'll be in the future. That's why she decided to enroll in Wall Street on West Peachtree, a day camp for local high school students that ran from July 21 to 25 at Georgia Tech College of Management. A chance glance at a hospital bulletin board motivated Global Executive MBA student Joe Urban to aid a disabled girl in rural Alabama. He's enlisted all of his classmates in the drive to help seventeen-year-old Megan Harman live more like a normal teen. Ajay Kohli, who just joined Georgia Tech College of Management as the Gary T. and Elizbeth R. Jones Chair holder, was also recently named editor of the prestigious Journal of Marketing. Popular wisdom suggests that about 80 percent of all change initiatives end in failure. More alarming still for top managers, a 2005 survey reported in BusinessWeek found that 31 percent of CEOs fired by their boards were removed because they mismanaged change (more so than for any other reason). Understanding what makes likely heroes tick might help recruiters of police officers, firefighters, rescue workers, and other risky professions make better hiring decisions, according to a new study. Widely renowned for their research and teaching, College of Managment professors continue to earn prestigious honors, grants, and editorial positions. Georgia Tech researchers recently won the 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award for their holistic examination of strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms for innovating in the realm of biotechnology. | 
