100 Years of Taking Care of Business
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Emory College is established in Oxford, Georgia.
The school is named in honor of John Emory, a Methodist bishop who helped found New York University, Dickinson College and Wesleyan University.
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The U.S. Civil War begins.
Emory closes its doors, and as the war makes its way to Georgia in 1863, the school is transformed into a hospital, and later, a headquarters for the Union Army.
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Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invents Coca-Cola in Columbus, Georgia.
Pemberton’s experiment began in an effort to treat his chronic chest pain—caused by a saber wound to the chest during the Civil War’s Battle of Columbus. He would sell the rights to Coca-Cola’s formula soon after.
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Emory’s School of Business Administration, now known as Goizueta Business School, is founded after the dean of Emory College, Howard Odum, recommends the Board of Trustees create a “school of economics and business administration.”
The school offers courses in economics, accounting, and business law.
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Emory’s School of Business Administration’s enrollment hits 145 students.
The school also employs one faculty member, one full-time assistant and five staff members.
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Roberto Goizueta graduates from Yale University with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
He immediately returns home to his native Cuba, and after replying to an anonymous want ad in his local newspaper, Roberto gets a job working for Coca-Cola bottlers. Soon after, Fidel Castro comes to power and transforms the nation into a communist state. Goizueta and his family defect to the U.S.—where Roberto quickly lands on his feet, and continues working for The Coca-Cola Company in Miami.
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Emory’s Graduate Business Association hosts the very first Intercollegiate Games—a nation-wide competition in which teams from the country’s best business schools are selected to participate in a variety of games using computer simulations.
Now 35, Roberto Goizueta moves to Atlanta to become Vice President of Technical Research and Development at the Coca-Cola Company. He is, and remains, the youngest person to hold this position at the company.
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Emory introduces an Executive MBA degree—the only one of its kind in the South.
Roberto Goizueta is named President of the Coca-Cola Company.
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Atlanta plays host to the world’s largest sporting event, the XXVI Olympics.
Roberto Goizueta, in his role as CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, is instrumental in bringing the games to the Peach State.
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Erika James is named Dean of Goizueta Business School—the first woman, and African American, to lead the school.
During Dean James’s tenure, Goizueta consistently ranks as a top-20 business school by U.S. News & World Report, Businessweek, The Economist, and Poets & Quants.
