Dear members of the university community: Now that FIU is closed and each of you has gone home to prepare for the effects of Hurricane Irma, it is a good time to focus on safety and start thinking about post-event recovery. The most important part of being ready, is being informed. Please monitor local media […]
Full Name John Cuadra (BBA, BAcc ’16) Undergraduate Major Management Information Systems (MIS) and Accounting Graduate Major Master of Science in Accounting (currently enrolled at FIU) Internship: KPMG, Charlotte, North Carolina, in IT Audit & Assurance. KPMG is one of the “Big 4” international accounting firms. Offered a full-time position in IT, Audit and Assurance […]
Students in the College of Business’ marketing study abroad program spent a packed 12 days in Spain, Italy and France getting a first-hand look at important local manufacturing and service-based companies including the Codorniu Winery in Barcelona and the L’Occitane manufacturing facility in Provence, as well as the Port Authority in Nice. Their hotel: Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the […]
Maria C. Alonso (MBA ‘91) was named president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Miami-Dade. She was previously senior vice president and Miami market manager at Bank of America. Felipe Inoa (MS ’07) has started a new job as head of information technology for the Americas at TMF Group, which provides financial […]
By Samuel Nichols This summer, I interned at Next Level Marketing, an award-winning digital marketing firm in Florida. My title: SEO, Social Media, and Content Strategy Intern. It seems like a long title, but those are just a few of the fields I was engaged in. I also wrote blog posts and performed administrative […]
FBLA-PBL at FIU ranked third overall in the nation, with nine individual Top 10 finishes, as more than 200 college chapters and 1,800 college students traveled to Southern California for the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) National Leadership Conference, held June 24–27 in Anaheim. At the conference, themed Legacy of Leadership, students competed for over $95,000 […]
“You can’t talk about real estate without talking about transit,” said William Hardin, director of the Hollo School of Real Estate. “How you get there. How you don’t. How you sit for 30 minutes to travel three blocks. How it impacts the value of real estate.” Amidst a fast-changing urban landscape and increasing traffic nightmares, […]
They conquered challenges and embraced leadership. They used their education to solve real-world problems. These are some of the success stories of four College of Business Worlds Ahead Graduates honored by President Mark Rosenberg at FIU’s Summer 2017 Commencement ceremonies on August 1, 2017. Chapman Graduate School Rebecca Samuelsson A golf scholarship first brought Rebecca […]
This summer, BizNews will present highlights of College of Business events held throughout the year. New insights, new colleagues and new inspiration: these were the takeaways for more than 200 attendees of the second annual PowerUp Women’s Summit. The conference, presented by the College of Business and its Women’s Alumni Advisory Council, took place on […]
This summer, BizNews will present highlights of College of Business events held throughout the year. Stephen Bittel, chairman and founder of Terranova Corporation, a South Florida real estate developer and innovator with over $1 billion in its commercial real estate portfolio, was the keynote panelist at Florida International University’s Bi-Annual Jerome Bain Developer Luncheon, held […]
