Henry Unger

Sunday Business Editor

Henry Unger is Sunday Business Editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also writes a weekly column, "5 Questions for the Boss," that appears in the Sunday Business section. He has worked at the AJC for 22 years in a variety of reporting and editing positions. Prior to that, he was a reporter in Los Angeles. He is a Bronx native and a graduate of Queens College.

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UGA Athletic Director Vince Dooley standing on the sidelines during a game against Southern Mississippi in Athens in 1996. (Photo/W. A. Bridges, Jr.)

Vince Dooley: ‘Coaching is about surviving a series of crises’

Once in a while, you have to break your own rules. In this case, blame Vince Dooley. The legendary football coach, who led UGA to one national championship and six SEC titles, talked about a wide range of issues during a two-hour interview last week. Instead of five Q&As, there ...

Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate falls to 8.0 percent in August

Metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate fell substantially in August — to 8.0 percent from 8.6 percent in July as layoffs declined and hiring increased, the state labor department said Thursday. Employers cut 25.9 percent fewer jobs in August than in July. Many of the 17,563 initial claims for jobless benefits came ...

Southwire CEO: ‘Put the company first and your own self-interest second’

Big and family owned. That’s the type of company Stu Thorn has worked for during most of his career, from SC Johnson (cleaning products) to Beaulieu of America (carpet) and Southwire. As CEO of the Carrollton-based manufacturer of electrical power cable and wire for the past 12 years, Thorn has ...

Georgia’s jobless rate falls slightly to 8.7 percent in August

Georgia’s unemployment rate, which had been rising for three straight months, dropped to 8.7 percent in August from 8.8 percent in July, the state labor department said Thursday. “The primary reason the rate dropped is that we had a significant reduction in layoffs, in fact, the fewest since September 2007,” ...

Sally Quillian Yates is the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

U.S. Attorney Sally Yates: ‘Nobody is a success on their own’

There’s more than one way to become the first in something. For Sally Quillian Yates, the first woman to be named U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, it was a combination of hard work, wise mentors and luck. Yates, 53, leads about 100 federal lawyers who prosecute a ...

Manhattan Associates CEO: ‘There’s no backing out or backing down’

One out-of-the-blue phone call can change an entire career. That’s what happened to Eddie Capel one Friday night in England, when he was the only person left in the office. Capel’s experience reinforces the notion that careers aren’t planned. They’re built, one seized opportunity on top of another. Now CEO ...

Michael Adams: ‘I’ve broken one of the basic corporate rules’

The average tenure of a college president is about seven years today. Michael Adams went 16 at UGA before stepping down this summer after helping to turn the state’s flagship university into one of the nation’s top public colleges. Adams, a skilled fundraiser who learned that trade in politics, helped ...

Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate drops to 8.6 percent in July

Metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent in July from 8.8 percent in June as private employers added to their payrolls, the labor department said Thursday. A total of 15,945 more workers were hired in July, with several key sectors providing the bulk of the gains. Employers in construction ...

Sam Massell: ‘I didn’t think much of me and my principal didn’t either’

At 85, former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell has accomplished many things in his life, but shedding his workaholic behavior is not one of them. As president of the Buckhead Coalition, Massell still works every day, trying to promote economic development in the upscale area while improving the quality of life. ...

Georgia’s jobless rate rises to 8.8 percent in July

Georgia’s unemployment rate rose to 8.8 percent in July from a revised 8.5 percent in June, as summer layoffs continued to plague the struggling job market more than four years after the recession officially ended. “The rate increased primarily because there was a significant number of new layoffs, and non-contract ...