Bloomberg Businessweek just released their prestigious biannual ranking of business schools based on full-time MBAs. Once again, the Chapman Graduate School of Business is placed among the country’s top business schools. FIU’s full-time International MBA has been included in the ranking’s third tier in each biannual listing since 2002. “We are very pleased to have […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
FIU Business faculty member’s baseball research captures attention of Malcolm Gladwell.
The Florida Marlins may not have made it to the World Series this year but interesting baseball news in South Florida persists even for those not following the series. It comes via an article in The New Yorker, written by Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, among others. In “The Talent […]
Chapman Orientation mixes new and proven, celebrates record enrollment.
About 450 of the newly admitted students in the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU) got a taste of the new during one of the fall orientation events: meeting fellow students, administrators, faculty members and program staff while getting acquainted with the facilities at the Modesto A. Maidique […]
FIU contingent furthers Dual Degree relationship with university in China.
Late this summer, a four-person group from the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), went to China for four days as part of the evolving relationship between the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business and Southern Medical University (SMU) in Guangzhou. Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam, Associate Dean Christos Koulamas, […]
Faculty Notes: October 2010
Department of Management and International Business Malcolm Gladwell frequently refers to research by Aya Chacar, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, in his article in The New Yorker titled “Talent Grab.” The references were to her co-authored paper, “Institutional Settings and Rent Appropriation by Knowledge Based Employees: The Case of Major League Baseball,” […]
Chapman Graduate School recognized again as one of the best business schools by The Princeton Review.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU) is ranked in a publication of The Princeton Review: Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition. “For this edition, we’ve collected the opinions of more than 19,000 students at the best AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools […]
EMBA residency holds surprises for experienced executives.
Donna Skees (BBA ’99) was sure she would fail at public speaking. Angel Medina Jr. (BBA ’92) thought he would sail through a challenging ropes course. Both were wrong. Along with the rest of their group, they discovered unexpected strengths and areas for improvement during an intense five-day residency in the Florida Keys that marked […]
Alumnus’s company named co-winner in national IBM competition.
CareCloud, a web-based software and services company that modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care through a cloud computing technology-based solution, was one of two companies to receive the “IBM SmartCamp Silicon Valley” award. Albert Santalo (EMBA ’97), who serves as the […]
Annual luncheon recognizes faculty contributions.
Faculty members toil long and hard on behalf of their students, the College of Business Administration and Florida International University (FIU). That dedication gets recognized annually at the Faculty Awards Luncheon, this year held on September 24th and attended by approximately 65 dedicated colleagues. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as those from student organizations […]
Executive Dean announces prestigious faculty appointments for 2010.
William Newburry, associate professor, Department of Management and International Business, and Stephen Lin, associate professor, School of Accounting, have been appointed to three-year endowed professorships in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). Newburry is the SunTrust Bank Professor and Lin is the Morrison, Brown, Argiz, & Farra, LLP Professor. Both were […]