The College’s Business Alumni Chapter held yet another successful “Traveling Happy Hour” on October 20th with more than seventy alumni mingling at Tarpon Bend in Coral Gables. Alumni and guests enjoyed complimentary drinks and appetizers from the event’s participating sponsors, Bacardi and Tarpon Bend. This is the second event of the networking series which are […]
Author: Beverly Z. Welber
Alumni Circle plans to tackle new projects.
Members of the College’s Alumni Circle will be dividing into sub-committees to work on two new initiatives—a community service project to affect an educational non-profit organization and the development of a new “Business Readiness Unit,” which will be added to the College’s portfolio of undergraduate student services. Circle members will be gathering in November to […]
Real Estate Awards Luncheon features Frank Kowalski.
The Frank Kowalski FIU Real Estate Alumni Affinity Council (REAAC), in partnership with The Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute and the FIU Real Estate Student Association, hosted the Fifth Annual Real Estate Awards Luncheon on October 7th, 2005, at the Bankers Club in Downtown Miami. More than 100 alumni and real estate professionals gathered at […]
Chapman School expands its focus on China.
José de la Torre, dean of the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University, recently returned from a six-day trip to China where he met with officials from several business schools to discuss possible joint programs. Preliminary proposals with the Graduate School of Business at Nankai University, located in Tianjin, and the International […]
Building for Business Campaign nets two major new gifts for new building complex.
Steven M. Berwick (BACC ’74), Kaufman, Rossin & Co. College of Business Administration alumni at Kaufman, Rossin & Co., one of Florida’s largest independent accounting firms, and at IKON Office Solutions, Florida International University’s office solutions partner, have shown their commitment to the College by securing gifts for the Building for Business Campaign.The generous donations—when […]
Bank mergers and risk: Research offers encouraging news.
“Naïve investors focus on the possible return on their investment without realizing a basic tenet in finance: if there is return, there has to be risk and vice versa,” said Arun Prakash, Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management research professor in finance in the College of Business Administration. Prakash and Suchismita Mishra, assistant professor […]
College volunteers pack bags for kids in need.
Students in the BBA Weekend program assembled 137 book bags for kids in a local shelter. Hundreds of area kids started school this year with smiles on their faces thanks to new, well-filled packs on their backs, courtesy of three separate efforts by members of the College of Business Administration. About fifty faculty and staff […]
College creates Executive and Professional Education unit.
As part of its ongoing commitment to ensure exceptional customer service to the business community, the College of Business Administration has created the Executive and Professional Education unit to deliver a variety of non-credit programs for executives and managerial professionals. Its range of offerings will enable business professionals to keep current, refine their skills, and […]
Chapman Graduate School contributes sponsorship and expertise to forum.
José de la Torre, dean of the Chapman Graduate School, was moderator of a panel on “Remittances: What This Represents for Latin America.” The panelists with him are (left to right): Sergio Bendixen, president, Bendixen & Associates; José Maria Ayuso, executive vice resident of Product Management & Member Relations, Visa International; and José Guerrero, CEO, […]
Alumni Notes
Carlos A. Zarraluqui (BBA ’98) has been named vice president of marketing and special projects for Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Leonely Valdes (BBA ’91) has been appointed accounting manager at The Allen Morris Co. Luis Munoz (BBA ’91) has joined Bright Star Credit Union as an investment representative. James M. Bond (BACC ’89; […]