The latest rankings of undergraduate business specialties released online by BusinessWeek listed Florida International University’s College of Business Administration (FIU Business) in the top 20 in the nation in two areas: 9th in operations management and 18th in accounting. As part of BusinessWeek‘s Best Undergraduate Business Schools ranking, thousands of senior business majors at more […]
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Women-led firms coping better with recession.
A survey released Thursday shows women-led businesses are surviving the recession better than most other businesses, according to Florida International University’s Center for Leadership and The Commonwealth Institute South Florida. The reason: women-led businesses traditionally have taken on little debt and therefore have the flexibility to maneuver during tough times. Instead of going to banks […]
Jose Tillan (BBA '90) named general manager/executive vice president of MTV Tr3s.
NEW YORK, May 18 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Stephen Friedman, general manager of MTV, announced today that Jose Tillan (BBA ’90) has been appointed to the position of general manager /executive vice president of MTV Tr3s. Tillan will be based in New York City and Miami, reporting to Friedman. Tillan, who was senior vice president […]
Schools get social with CRM.
Florida International University (FIU) College of Business Administration is one of the first schools to use the Intelliworks Social Marketing application as part of its student recruitment strategy. Read DMNews article.
FIU College of Business breaks new ground with “Uncommon Thinkers” Facebook application
Are you more of a revolutionary than a visionary? Maybe you fit in with the creative crowd instead. A new Facebook application (http://apps.facebook.com/uncommonthinkers) created by Florida International University’s College of Business Administration will let you know. As part of the business school’s award-winning “Uncommon Thinkers” campaign, the Facebook application asks users a series of questions […]
FIU Business “Uncommon Thinkers” branding campaign wins national award
Florida International University’s College of Business Administration has been selected as the winner of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals’ (NAGAP) 2009 Award for Promotional Excellence. The Promotional Excellence Award recognizes best practices in the area of graduate enrollment management. This year’s topic was Branding a Graduate School or Program. FIU’s business school is […]
Nimble South Florida companies own weapons to fight recession.
According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the nation will pull out of the recession by the third or fourth quarter of this year. Of course, the likelihood of that happening is about the same as Octomom Nadye Suleman being invited to give the keynote address at the annual meeting of Planned Parenthood. Read MiamiToday […]
Summit of the Americas: Much Ado About Nothing
Searching for substance in the summit’s declaration is akin to looking for a polar bear in a snowstorm. Summits of the Americas traditionally have been vacuous, mind-numbing conventions of inter-American heads of state and their acolytes in which pompous, sermon-style pontifications and amorphous and anodyne declarations—substance-free and coma-inducing—are delivered to the press and whoever else […]
FIU’s College of Business selected top 15 schools by The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools”
Florida International University’s College of Business Administration is one of 15 schools named to The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools” in the operations category, one of six categories showcased. The list will be published in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur, the nation’s leading publication for and about entrepreneurs. Operations management deals […]
Business School Students Team with Commerce Department Financial Services Specialists
An innovative program brings together “virtual” interns from Florida International’s University’s Chapman School of Business with the Department of Commerce to benefit U.S. businesses and a new generation of business students. Read article from the Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Newsletter.