“Your competitors are not just down the street anymore; they are truly around the globe and you absolutely must be in tune internationally.” That strong message from Herb Payan (MBA ’09), Sony Music Entertainment vice president, Digital Business Development (U.S. Hispanics, Latin America, Spain & Portugal), was part of a panel discussion presented to members […]
Category: Undergraduate School
Food for thought: Boris Hirmas shares dinner, firsthand experiences with FIU Business students.
In his new role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration, Boris Hirmas wanted to start a conversation with undergraduate students about how they envisioned their careers in international business after graduation and how entrepreneurship played into their plans. The result is a dinner series, “Brainfood with Boris,” presented by the […]
Undergrads serve as editorial team—and writers—for CUIBE international business journal.
Having a keen focus on international business isn’t the only differentiator for the Journal for Global Business and Community (JGBC), an academic journal from CUIBE, the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education, with 30 member schools. The multidisciplinary journal, housed at FIU, is a project of the International Business Honor Society (IBHS), a student organization […]
IBHS members visit Miami International Airport, Federal Reserve Bank.
Miami International Airport (MIA) is the largest U.S. gateway for Latin America and the Caribbean and one of the leading international passenger and freight airports in the world. Over 80 airlines provide flights to approximately 150 destinations around the globe. Members of the International Business Honor Society (IBHS), a student organization within the College of […]
From factory tours to dinner in the desert, students enjoy study abroad in Dubai.
Since the discovery of oil in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the early 1960’s, the country has been transformed from an impoverished region of small desert principalities to a modern state with a high standard of living. Enabling students from Florida International University (FIU) to learn about the exciting business environment of Dubai, one […]
Guess who’s coming to class? Heavy-hitters visit international real estate students all semester long.
“I read about these people in the news but never expected to have the chance to meet—and talk–to them,” said Raymond Clamens (MBA ’11), now a student in the Master of Science in International Real Estate program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). Clamens is speaking of the guest lecturers […]
PhD Pipeline workshop works to increase minority count.
While minorities are nearly a third of the U.S. population, African-Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans are estimated to be only four percent of the faculty of business schools nationwide, primarily because minorities do not apply to PhD programs. That’s part of the information students learned during the PhD Pipeline Opportunity workshop on November 29, […]
Honor students have “eye-opening” experience at Memphis leadership forum.
With just weeks until his college graduation, the time was ideal for finance major Alejandro J. Medina to contemplate his future. Happily, Medina was one of two students from Beta Gamma Sigma, the student honor society in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), selected to attend the organization’s National Student Leadership […]
FBLA-PBL members learn, compete and promote FIU at State Leadership Conference.
The Fall Leadership Conference offered by Florida’s Future Business Leaders-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) on November 4, 2011, had an agenda packed with opportunities and the representatives from the FBLA-PBL chapter at Florida International University (FIU) took advantage of each and every one. The conference, held in Clearwater Beach, drew approximately 400 people from across the […]
Students gain from international business case competition in Boston.
Four undergraduates from Florida International University (FIU) joined teams from other leading business schools offering international business programs for a case competition November 3-6, 2011. Northeastern University hosted their second annual International Business Case Competition in partnership with the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE). Luis Gasparini, Ana Perez, Belinda Sardinas and Luciano Viola, […]