A life full of experiences can give a person the tools and resources to face daily situations with better response capacity, but few will inspire you as much as travel. Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to participate in a study abroad program called “Business at Sea,” aboard a transatlantic cruise on Royal Caribbean’s […]
It was a scorching hot South Florida weekend, yet Nancy Richmond, Florida International University College of Business marketing professor, wanted to see it heat up even more – in a social media sense, that is. And it did. More than 350 students, alumni, bloggers and business people attended FIU’s second annual Social Tech Live! The […]
Miami businesses have the advantage of being located in a trade and logistics hub that is also the Gateway to the Americas. Despite these natural business advantages, three out of four of Miami-Dade County’s private-sector workers are engaged in business activity that stops selling goods/services at the shores of the U.S. Most businesses still believe […]
The College of Business welcomed its supporters back to campus in late June to thank them in a unique way. The Beyond Giving event, a first for the college, aimed to foster an awareness of how many ways community, alumni and donor support contribute to student achievement at the college. The event was held June […]
Albert Amaya, a human resource management major at Florida International University (FIU), has been elected as president of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL), the largest collegiate business student organization in the world. The announcement was made at the National Leadership Conference for PBL, the collegiate division of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), which was held […]
At first glance, spending seven hours locked in a hotel room doesn’t seem like much of an honor. But that’s what it was for four undergraduate Florida International University College of Business students, all members of the Phoenician Investment Fund (PIF). The quartet was chosen as one of 24 university teams to participate in the […]
There isn’t much that College of Business professors Louis Melbourne and Donald Roomes haven’t shared. They each have two curriculums, the one they taught and the one they took; and two sets of deadlines, the ones they assigned and those assigned to them. The professors met in 1988 during the first semester of studying for […]
A gift of over $800,000 of artwork has been made to the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) from Albert Scaglione, CEO and founder of Park West Gallery, a commercial art gallery well known for their art auctions on cruise ships around the world for almost 25 years. The collection given to FIU […]
By SBDC at FIU Dawn Dickson may be donning flats, but she’s walking tall these days. The Miami-based entrepreneur and founder of Flat Out of Heels won second place in the 2016 InnovateHER: Innovating for Women Business Challenge, the Small Business Administration’s nationwide business competition. The prize: $20,000. Now in its second year, the competition […]
Thirty years ago, a group of Florida International University accounting students came together to establish a chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the honor society for accounting, finance and information systems students. Several decades later, FIU warmly welcomed back over 100 of those who made Beta Alpha Psi part of their College of Business experience. The […]
