The Financial Management Association International has honored the College of Business Administration’s Financial Management Association (FMA) and the Finance Honor Society (FHS) chapter for their effective efforts to increase membership. The FMA’s receipt of a Bronze Membership Development Award for 2005-2006 puts the college’s chapter in the elite company of other chapters that successfully recruited […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
Alumnus selected as South Florida CEO speaker.
Albert Santalo The Business Alumni Chapter, along with South Florida CEO magazine, will present the South Florida CEO Speaker Series on October 19, 2006, from 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the Biltmore Hotel. Albert Santalo (EMBA ’97), president and CEO of Avisena, will be the featured speaker. Santalo is one of South Florida’s youngest and most […]
New Business Alumni Chapter Board plans next series of events.
New chapter board members have been selected for the 2006-2007 academic year. They include Manny Matalon (BACC ’01) as president; Gilbert Santiesteban (BACC ’02) as president-elect; José Perez (BBA ’02) as vice president, and James Rivera (BACC ’01) as director of development. The new board is looking forward to many exciting developments for the Business […]
New scholarship endowment sparks the entrepreneurial spirit.
Margarita Gonzalez Student and entrepreneur Margarita Gonzalez rarely follows the traditional path. Already the chief financial officer of AccuBANKER, the company she and her husband founded in Miami in 1981, Gonzalez decided to pursue her Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Florida International University—at the same time her own children were heading off to college. […]
Traveling Happy Hour Series hits the road.
From left, Manny Mantalon (BACC ’01) , Business Alumni Chapter president; Monique Catoggio (EMBA ’03), director of the college’s alumni and partner relations; Gilbert Santiesteban (BACC ’02) , chapter president-elect; Michelle Joubert, marketing manager for alumni and partner relations; and José Perez (BBA ’02), chapter vice president. Business Alumni Chapter members met at Martini Bar on […]
College of Business Administration establishes strategic alliance to offer interactive online certification program in customer relationship management.
It began with the arrival of an email message from the College of Business Administration announcing a course in customer relationship management (CRM). It continued with the recipient, Manny Buigas, principal of Axis Integrated Solutions, enrolling. And now, it has resulted in the development and initial offering of a one-of-a-kind, interactive CRM online certification program […]
Alumna credits her parents and education for her success.
Diana Montenegro Diana Montenegro (BBA ’86) attributes her success to her parents and her upbringing. Her parents, college-educated Cuban immigrants who didn’t speak any English, obtained domestic jobs upon their arrival in the U.S. and worked hard to obtain a better quality of life. They were great role models, she said, full of ambition and […]
Chapman School captures Top 10 ranking for Hispanic MBAs.
The Chapman Graduate School of Business ranks in the Top 10 among graduate schools in the country for Hispanic MBAs, according to an article titled “2006 Hispanic Business Diversity Report: Education,” in the September, 2006, issue of Hispanic Business. Among the other schools in the Top 10 were Stanford University, Graduate School of Business; University […]
Study helps show what’s in store for shopping center rents.
William G. Hardin III Understanding the rent potential of shopping centers has consequences for developers and retailers alike. As developers determine where to build or redevelop and as tenants weigh their options for where to locate, the question of which spaces can expect to command premium rents—and why—needs careful attention. Research by William G. Hardin […]
BBA+ Weekend class “lights the night” with commitment to community service.
Chances are, we all know someone—be it a friend, family member, or neighbor—whose life has been touched by cancer. Just such a personal connection with the difficulties faced by a loved one fighting leukemia lit the spark fueling the community service project that students in Group 21 of the current BBA+ Weekend program are supporting. […]