For Bruce Welch (IMBA-MSF ’07, BBA ’05), multi-tasking is a way of life. Currently a financial analyst at Cargill Latin America—whose parent company has sales exceeding $120 billion—he faces tasks that span the daily calculation of the business unit’s multi-million dollar commodity futures trading exposure to overseeing weekly sales of structured financial products with investment […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
Top-notch Hispanic students get professional development boost at high-powered institute.
In four intense days, thanks to the Karen Marquez Institute (formerly the Hispanic College Fund), Daniel Zamora, an accounting major in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) and 34 other college students from across the country, gathered in Washington, DC where they advanced along their career path. Members of this elite […]
Contracting positions stay viable in contracting economy.
Jackie Naranjo (BBA ’08) embodies the notion that an unexpected career option can turn out to be extremely rewarding. Through the summer internship program offered by the Hispanic National Internship Program (HNIP) of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), she landed a position in the contracting office of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). […]
Fall Commencement helps close 2009 on upbeat note.
For students and their families and friends, there’s no more exciting event than when all the hard work, dedication and sometimes considerable sacrifice is recognized in the form of a college commencement. That was true for the more than 5,500 students who graduated from Florida International University (FIU) on December 14 and 15, 2009. Among […]
ExxonMobil generously donates to College of Business Administration . . . again.
“ExxonMobil has a commitment to educational activities wherever we do business around the world,” said Bennett P. Hansen, president and sales director, ExxonMobil Inter-America Inc. and new member of the Dean’s Council in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). While that commitment shows itself in such activities as a partnership with […]
Faculty Notes
Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, has joined the Technical Advisory Panel for the Health Council of South Florida’s (HCSF) Miami Matters. Miami Matters is a new web-based information system that will serve as a conduit for informed and resourceful community action on community issues. Chiarini Tremblay, who teaches […]
FIU President Mark Rosenberg meets with business school faculty.
At the invitation of Joyce J. Elam, executive dean, College of Business Administration, Mark Rosenberg, the new president of Florida International University (FIU) spoke to the college faculty on November 2, 2009. Since becoming president, Rosenberg has been describing his commitment to “Hit the Ground Running.” The plan seeks to: revitalize and expand the financial […]
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Joyce J. Elam, executive dean, was appointed to the Baptist Health Board of Trustees on November 10, 2009. Brian E. Keeley, president and CEO of Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF), described the appointment as “another great addition to the BHSF board.” During 2008-2009, Elam served as a member of the Baptist Health Enterprises Board of […]
Employee Service and Recognition Awards Ceremony honors dozens.
Approximately 500 people attended the most recent Employee Service and Recognition Awards Ceremony, during which Mark Rosenberg, president of Florida International University (FIU), traced the history of the university by focusing on milestone events in increments of five years, matched to the equivalent years of service of those being honored. The theme of the event, […]
One day affords two opportunities for faculty to absorb new research.
Both the Finance and Real Estate Department and the Department of Management and International Business provided colleagues from across Florida International University (FIU) the chance to flex their intellectual muscles during two seminars held on November 6, 2009. Wayne Ferson, University of Southern California, confirms validity of Nobel Prize winning model. “The ‘Out-of-sample’ Performance of […]