When the pandemic shut down on-campus classes at FIU on March 11, 2020, the president of the FIU chapter of ALPFA (Association of Latino Professionals For America), Maria Jose Pineda, looked despairingly at a packed schedule of in-person events, all canceled. But in the space of a few weeks, the ALPFA chapter board recouped, and […]
The FIU Chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA FIU) won the Southern Region Outstanding Chapter of the Year award at the organization’s 2020 convention, “Insight Reimagined,” which was held virtually July 8 – 9, 2020. In 2018, a dozen business students re-launched NABA’s dormant FIU Business chapter to create a support network […]
Poets&Quants, a leading online publication for business education news, has ranked the FIU undergraduate business program at No. 40 among all public business school programs. FIU Business is the only public school in Florida to appear in the publication’s third annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools report, which was released in December 2019. This is the […]
Editor’s note: Daniela Rico is a marketing and international business major who serves as an International Student Ambassador in the Office of Global Initiatives.She reflected on her first experience in Paris as a study abroad student spending the semester at the Dauphine Paris Business School. I had never felt this anxious, excited, and scared all […]
The undergraduate international business program at FIU Business is ranked No. 2 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020 Best Colleges rankings, released September 9. The international business program jumped four spots, up from No. 6 last year. This is the sixth consecutive year that the program at FIU Business […]
As far back as second grade, I’ve been intrigued with Spanish language and culture, and I studied the language avidly through middle and high school. In 11th grade, my AP Spanish Language teacher preached something to our class that stuck with me: the concept of “immersion”. To really learn a language, she told us, one […]
Two FIU Business student organizations focusing on professional development for accounting, finance and other business fields came away from their August national conferences with high recognition for excellence and achievement. Beta Alpha Psi – FIU, the honor society for accounting, finance and management information systems, was one of only eight student chapters out of more […]
Name Sasha K. Mallet Degree and date of graduation BBA – Major in Finance and Certificate in Banking – December 2016 Where are you working? BBVA Compass in Austin, Texas as a commercial relationship associate How did you get your job? I started with the bank as a commercial underwriting specialist. After a couple of […]
Jorgie Milan BBA ‘18, Major in Marketing, certificate in Social Media and E-Analytics Where are you working? I am an Account Manager at Gartner in Fort Myers, FL. (Gartner, Inc. is a global research and advisory firm providing insights, advice, and tools for leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, legal and compliance, […]
Many businesses sell on Amazon. And SellersFunding, which provides loans and capital to small businesses, wanted to find the stars among the small-marketplace online merchants, and identify which might be good investment opportunities. They turned to the students in Assistant Professor Tala Mirzaei’s Business Analytics Applications class to find out. It was a unique […]
