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About Eric Tanenblatt

Authored 24 articles.

Articles

• Eric Tanenblatt: The Midterms Are Coming. Is Your Business Ready?

  Features, August 03, 2026

  The 2026 midterm elections are still months away, but for business owners, executives, investors and directors, the time to prepare is now.

• In SK Plant, Trade Secret Thief Gives Georgia False Choice Between Jobs and Justice

  Features, February 16, 2021

  The future is electric, and Georgia has spent a great deal of energy—and hundreds of millions in development incentives—to secure its position in the economy of tomorrow as a high-tech manufacturing corridor.

• Eric Tanenblatt: To Heal America, Look to National Service

  Features, July 08, 2020

  Massive demonstrations and unrest stretching from America’s biggest cities to its smallest towns, a pandemic that’s already claimed the lives of more than 130,000 and a sputtering economy that’s displaced upwards of 21 million workers: By any measure, America is in a crisis.

• Eric Tanenblatt: A National Service Response to a National Disaster

  Features, May 08, 2020

  The crises the United States knows best — fires and floods, hurricanes and tornadoes, school shootings and mass violence — have all been proximate to individual communities or states. Government and civil society are prepared for this backyard disaster paradigm because we’ve been called to respond to so many before. But the coronavirus pandemic is a uniquely national crisis affecting every nook and cranny of the country, and policymakers have struggled to develop a “whole of America” response.

• Transportation on the Entire BeltLine in 10 Years for a Fraction of the Cost? Autonomous Shuttles are the Answer.

  News, June 04, 2019

• Eric Tanenblatt: The George Bush I knew

  Features, December 06, 2018

  George Herbert Walker Bush, whose careful custodianship of the unraveling of the old Soviet Union shaped a safer world for hundreds of millions, was mourned by a grateful nation Wednesday in a state funeral that brought together Republicans and Democrats in an increasingly rare demonstration of civility.

• In Era Of Government Scarcity, Public-Private Partnerships Bridge Community Needs

  Features, July 05, 2018

  Solving problems like poverty, or inequities in housing, education or healthcare, is an expensive undertaking, and the gap between what’s required and what’s actually available, especially from public resource pools, is dramatic and widening.

• Eric Tanenblatt: The Barbara Bush I Knew

  News, April 26, 2018

• Eric Tanenblatt: Preparing for Our Electric, Autonomous Future

  News, March 05, 2018

• Eric Tanenblatt: These Georgia Businesses Are Changing How We View Social Responsibility

  Features, December 06, 2017

  The spirit of consumption that envelops our nation each year in the days that follow Thanksgiving was punctuated this year by something remarkable, something pointedly not about self-indulgence or flashy gadgets: a “global day of giving” that encouraged and celebrated altruism. The occasion, dubbed “Giving Tuesday” in the mode of our year-end shopping calendar, was said to have raised in excess of $200 million, a significant increase from years prior.

• Lessons From Harvey: We Can All Be A Hero to Someone

  News, September 07, 2017

• Eric Tanenblatt: The Rise Of Autonomous Cars May Mean The Fall Of Ridesharers

  News, June 01, 2017

• Eric Tanenblatt: In Budget Math, Make National Service A Priority

  News, March 06, 2017

• Eric Tanenblatt on Uberizing Big Trucks: 18 Wheels Have Never Been So Cool Or Important

  Features, February 15, 2017

  For the commute-weary driver, autonomous technology represents a sexy splurge, but for fleet operations, full autonomy represents the singular business imperative of the 21st century.

• Eric Tanenblatt: National Service, Not Government, Will Make America Great

  News, January 19, 2017

• Eric Tanenblatt: Donald Trump, Political Heir to Georgia’s Sonny Perdue

  Features, November 30, 2016

  As an outsider, they said he couldn’t win his party’s nomination against mainline, monied rivals. As a political renegade, they said he couldn’t create a winning general election coalition. Now, you would be forgiven for assuming I meant Donald Trump, whose stunning victory earlier this month defied political science and all electoral modeling. But it wasn’t Mr. Trump’s victory I meant to recall, rather the campaign for governor of Sonny Perdue.

• Eric Tanenblatt on Robots and Red Tape: Regulatory Uncertainty in Uber’s Self-Driving Bet

  News, September 13, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: In Wake of Orlando, Answer the Call to Serve

  News, June 24, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: The Reason Why the ‘Next Uber’ Might Never Exist

  News, June 08, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: Gov. Nathan Deal's Conservative Choice

  News, April 11, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: In Debate, Appeal to Better Angels Not Base Instinct

  News, March 16, 2016

• Commentary: The Disruptive Caucus: Parties Must Choose Innovators Over Incumbents

  News, February 17, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: In New Session, Gold Dome Holds Keys to State’s Future

  News, January 13, 2016

• Eric Tanenblatt: Demographics Don’t Make Destiny

  Features, November 18, 2015

  It’s not an especially rough time to be a Republican in Georgia these days. And yet in time the political dynamic may not be so rosy–that is to say, red–in the Peach State if GOP’ers fail to heed and respond to emerging demographic trends.