First Horizon Foundation has committed $35,000 to FIU Business to establish a scholarship for students who are the first generation in their family to pursue a college degree. The First Horizon Foundation First Generation Business Scholarship Endowment will provide aid for students enrolled in FIU Business who demonstrate financial need. Additionally, each recipient will have access to mentoring […]
Amid the backdrop of employers confronting a tight labor market and employees enjoying a newfound sense of power, more than 200 people logged on for an FIU Business discussion and Q&A on the state of employment today, nearly two years into the pandemic. Top leaders in their industries joined moderator Marc Weinstein, faculty director of FIU’s […]
As part of its ongoing efforts to develop the next generation of leaders, The Kemper Foundation has donated $130,000 to FIU Business. The gift will fund the Kemper Scholars Program, a new scholarship program for FIU students that offers scholarships, mentorship and career navigation resources. The donation also supports grants for FIU faculty. “The purpose […]
What drives people to leave their homes, their families, their culture, and confront the struggles of immigration? Last summer, Seema Pissaris, FIU Business clinical professor of international business, tried to answer this very question as part of a small team helping Afghan migrants in Greece. Pissaris was a volunteer for Focus Humanitarian Assistance, a non-governmental […]
Growing up in Haiti, Macdeur Alabre (MBA ’21 BBA ’19) – known to most as “Mac” – was pretty sure he would be a doctor. After all, law or medicine were family traditions. But then the entrepreneurial bug found him after a 2016 move to South Florida. In short order he earned a degree from […]
Students from five Miami-Dade County public high schools received a firsthand look at the process of admissions and financial resources as part of the FIU Business College and Career Readiness initiative. The one-day visit, which included a tour of FIU Business and the university’s Modesto Maidique Campus, brought the students outside of the traditional classroom, […]
As high school graduations near and students begin to face the challenges of applying for college, budgeting money and paying for their education, FIU Business and the Truist Foundation presented the “I am C2” College & Career Ready Conference. Designed to increase college readiness and financial literacy for students from public high schools in Miami-Dade County, “I […]
The graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs at FIU, which include programs at FIU Business, have been ranked among the top 50 entrepreneurship programs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe. The rankings, which will appear in the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine, were developed through a partnership between the magazine and The Princeton Review. The FIU graduate […]
Deepak Ohri leads one of the world’s most admired luxury brands by marshalling his team to push boundaries. He once challenged his staff to create the ultimate dinner – and they did, creating the world’s most expensive meal of its kind in 2007. Yet he still remembers how a simply packaged toothbrush was marketed as […]
Florida International University has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Community Navigator Pilot Program. The funds are earmarked for improving underserved entrepreneurs’ access to government programs that provide assistance in launching a new venture, growing a business or managing unexpected business interruptions. The Miami-Dade Small Business Resource Navigator Program […]
