Jennifer Elias of Carnival Corp. watched as FIU Sales student Melanie Crespillo pitched an advertising spot to the owner of a family-owned furniture store looking to expand in South Florida. The owner’s objective: get a competitive edge versus business rivals. Her pitch explained how advertising could be targeted geographically and demographically on channels watched by […]
Shakir Simon was a part-time teller at a Chase branch in Hollywood, FL, starting her FIU classes at 7:50 am, going to work around noon and returning for classes that ran until 10 pm. That grueling scheduled ended in the fall of 2014, when she received a scholarship from the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA). […]
The magnitude of cybersecurity threats has never been higher and shows no sign of slowing down. The global cost of cyberattacks is forecast to grow from $400 billion today to $2.1 trillion by 2020 and experts anticipate a 2 million person shortage in information security professionals by the same year. The Cybersecurity Certificate is offered […]
Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business international business programs remain academic leaders, with the undergraduate program ranking seventh in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 edition of Best Colleges. “This ranking speaks to the recognition of our programs being of high quality in business education,” said William Newburry, chair of the Department of […]
Florida homeowners will bear the brunt of the wind-related costs A team of researchers headed by FIU College of Business professor Shahid Hamid, using the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model, estimates that Hurricane Irma caused $19.4 billion in wind-related losses to Florida residents alone. The data doesn’t cover flood losses. Of that total, $6.3 billion […]
Barely five months into her tenure at FIU, College of Business Dean Joanne Li received an intense South Florida welcome: Hurricane Irma. The hurricane forced Li, brand-new to Miami, and her family to crisscross south and central Florida, heeding evacuation orders from both Miami and Naples. “It was pretty stressful,” Li said after the storm. […]
Offering financial support and words of comfort, U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta visited a specialized shelter for displaced victims of Hurricane Irma at FIU’s main campus. All are residents of Monroe County and many of their homes are destroyed. “The big message is that Florida is not alone,” said Acosta, who until recently was Dean […]
Two-time College of Business graduate Jose Tomas began his rise to human resource leadership working at Publix Super Markets in Miami. Over the next 20 years he held top-level positions in the healthcare, food service and transportation and logistics industries. On July 1, 2017 Tomas became the senior vice president of global human resources at […]
Recognized for its significant assistance to small businesses in South Florida, the Florida SBDC at FIU and its associate director Brian Van Hook received two important state-wide awards from the Florida SBDC Network. The Florida Best Practice of the Year Award was presented to the Florida SBDC at FIU in recognition of its Bizaster, a […]
The College of Business extended a heartfelt thank you to a broad range of partners and supporters at the 2017 Beyond Giving reception, recognizing their efforts to help set a path for new opportunities for students at FIU. Over one hundred people attended Beyond Giving reception, held June 15, 2017 at the College of Business […]
