World travel. A path to top management positions. Mastering the underlying language of business. Those are some of the opportunities in the field of accounting that recent high school graduates and upcoming seniors learned about during a two-day School of Accounting event in mid-July. “It’s not just sitting in a cubicle and crunching numbers,” said […]
Malcolm Butters graduated from a Master’s program at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business in 1984. He started his career in real estate with a big advantage: no student loans to pay off. He chose the job he wanted and started saving for a car, a home, and later, an entrepreneurial venture, without the […]
Principles of the business world are of significant value to school principals. Now, the fifth class of principals from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools is benefiting from that multidisciplinary idea, the basis of the Principals Leadership Development Program from the Center for Leadership of the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU). “A principal […]
Philanthropic and business leader R. Kirk Landon, president of The Kirk Foundation, will receive the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Florida International University (FIU) College of Business’ 15th annual Hall of Fame awards. In addition to Landon, the business school will honor five alumni for their entrepreneurial and business achievements at the Hall of […]
Some students may dread it, and others can’t wait. But the day will come when, as professionals, they will work on teams with overseas colleagues they can’t shake hands with and may not understand. These challenges of global teamwork will already be familiar to students who participated in Florida International University (FIU) College of Business […]
Communicating the vast opportunities at the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) is just one of the goals of the two students recently named as Mr. FIU Business 2014 and Miss FIU Business 2014. “It was only after I arrived as a student at FIU that I began to fully understand and appreciate […]
Robert Reisert, accounting teacher at Coral Gables High School, has many students who want to be stock brokers, investment bankers, fund managers or other financial industry professionals, Reisert wanted to enhance the curriculum by bringing his students for training on the Bloomberg terminals after he participated in the Academy of Finance I Am C2 College and […]
Immense pride and heartfelt joy filled the U.S. Century Bank Arena on Sunday, April 27, 2014 as 958 students in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) received their business degrees, as their friends and relatives, along with Dean David R. Klock and the College of Business faculty witnessed the occasion. In an […]
A Florida International University (FIU) graduate’s innovative pair of eyeglasses that reads text to the vision-impaired will be featured at eMerge Americas Techweek, May 5-6. FIU has partnered with the Technology Foundation of the Americas to host the FIU Pavilion at eMerge, a conference that brings together civic leaders, industry titans, entrepreneurs and global thought […]
Time is running short to register for eMerge Americas Techweek, a groundbreaking conference designed to showcase Miami as a tech hub and entrepreneurial gateway to the Americas. FIU community members are eligible for a 25 percent discount on registration for the conference, May 1-7, 2014, which will bring together the South Florida and Latin American […]
