In just its second appearance in a national sales competition, the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) placed 23rd. Representing the college at the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC) were Jessica Carbajal, Joseph Mendola, Juan Mugica, Jose Nunez and Daniel Torrens. The rigorous competition puts students through a number of elimination rounds. Using […]
Information about healthcare information turned out to greatly interest 79 students at Piper High School in Sunrise, Florida. As a presenter in ITWomen’s Role Model Speakers Program, Neera Bhansali, a faculty member in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) and executive director, biomedical informatics, FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, helped the […]
In March 2013, nine Healthcare MBA students from the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) traveled to China as partial fulfillment of their Master Research Project. During their 10-day stay, group members conducted research comparing the U.S. and China healthcare systems in the areas of physician/nurse/patient relationships, medical errors/patient safety issues and the […]
Enactus enables students to apply business concepts and entrepreneurial action in projects that positively affect their communities, combining two key focus areas for the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU): entrepreneurship and community service. When a team from FIU Enactus showcased their projects at the Enactus United States Regional Competition in Atlanta, Georgia […]
Five members of the executive board of ALPFA FIU, a student organization in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), won the 2013 Johnson & Johnson (J&J) case competition, outperforming nine other teams at the national competition. Adrian Cabrera, Marc Diaz, Martin Falconi, Jerome Lynch and Boris Mizrahi were selected by three judges […]
A topic dear to many, but also a cause for concern—especially with news about fragility in the finance sector—is retirement. On March 27, 2013, 82 people gathered to hear Helen Simon, a ten-year veteran of the Finance Department in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), who has nearly 30 years of experience […]
Internet searching has proven to be very useful to Stephanie Thomas (BS ’99). When she was looking online for graduate options in Florida related to her undergraduate degree in health information, she found the new Master of Science in Health Informatics and Management Systems (MSHI&MS) program in the College of Business at Florida International University […]
Students in the Healthcare MBA (HCMBA) program in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) won the 2013 South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum’s (SFHEF) student case competition, earning regional recognition and a $1,000 award. This year’s event, held on March 23rd at the Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, focused on physician leadership issues. […]
The 35nd Annual International AMA Collegiate Conference proved a winner, 16 times over, for the AMA chapter in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU). “Live the Marketing Life” was the theme of the event, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21-23, 2013, at which more than 300 chapters competed. Chapter awards set […]
School of Accounting Antoinette Smith, associate professor, was the subject of an article titled “Going for it” in the spring 2013 issue of FIU Magazine. Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Chris Ellis, instructor, was featured in Florida’s MBA professors are pushing the limits, an article in the March issue of Florida Trend. Department […]
