Between June 12th and 25th, 2011, Gabriel Mendoza (BACC ’11) and Mohales Deis, a junior majoring in management and international business, got an up-close view of what an MBA curriculum at an Ivy League school looks like. As part of the highly selective Yale School of Management Pre-MBA Leadership Program, they immersed themselves in classes—sometimes […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
New PhDs capture full-time, tenure-track academic appointments.
After years of toiling in college, particularly at the graduate level, and most particularly as doctoral students, four recent PhD graduates from the Department of Management and International Business in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) will be starting their next semester in the role of teacher. Despite the difficulties in […]
Faculty Notes: July 2011
School of Accounting Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership, was recently appointed to a team that is helping the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) set standards related to the preparation and issuing of audit reports by registered public accounting firms. Stewart Appelrouth, Manuel Dieguez, Meghna Singhvi and Shawn Wolf […]
College welcomes new employees.
The College of Business Administration is pleased to announce the following new staff members. Frinee Berrios is a program assistant for the Master of Science in Finance (MSF) and the Master of Science in International Real Estate programs (MSIRE). She fields phone calls, greets visitors, maintains logs, schedules appointments and provides basic information on both […]
Ana Estevill retires.
Ana Estevill retired in May 2011 after 21 years of service to the School of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). She began as senior secretary in 1990 and in 1999, was promoted to office manager. She was the assistant to Mort Dittenhofer, then the school’s director, and worked […]
Mercedes LaRue joins Pino Center as director of the Family Business Forum.
With entrepreneurship as one of its strategic areas of focus, the College of Business Administration is happy to welcome Mercedes LaRue to the Eugenio Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center as the director of the center’s Family Business Forum.
College welcomes new employees.
The College of Business Administration is pleased to announce the following new staff members. Alwyn Malachi Berkeley Jr. (BS ’11) is an assistant programmer in the college’s Tech Center. He assists in the college-wide implementation and rollout of the business school’s CRM application Intelliworks. Also, he provides support for the college’s faculty and staff with […]
Faculty Notes: June 2011
School of Accounting C. Delano Gray, instructor, was the first College of Business Administration professor to be the grand marshal for the College of Law commencement. The event took place on May 27, 2011 in the U.S. Century Bank Arena. Department of Finance and Real Estate Ken H. Johnson, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center […]
Officials from China’s Qufu Normal University visit FIU.
A delegation from Qufu Normal University, a major university in China’s Shandong Province, visited Florida International University (FIU) on June 18, 2011. It was the first time representatives from the two institutions had met. One of the stops on the tour was the College of Business Administration, where the group from China had conversations with […]
Lewis Davidson honored at retirement party.
After a career long enough to have taught approximately 15,000 students, Lewis Davidson retired from the School of Accounting at Florida International University (FIU). Forty-four friends, colleagues, former students and family gathered at the College of Business Administration on April 27, 2011, to honor Davidson, who taught at FIU from 1984 on after stints at […]