Obama’s New Budget The road to recovery out of the recent recession has been tough and filled with mixed feelings on the future. Many initiatives have come to fruition since the credit crunch of 2008. Financial regulation with the Dodd-Frank Act, troops being existed from the Middle East, and increased pressure from United States citizens […]
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Weekly Market Wrap Up, February 7-11, 2011
Pandora Files with SEC for IPO On 11 February 2011, Pandora Media Inc. officially filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission. The investment banks underwriting the shares are Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan; however, the number of shares and the IPO price has yet to be determined. The company is […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, January 31-February 4, 2011
AOL Inc. Purchases Huffington Post at 10x EBITDA AOL Inc. announced on Monday morning that it will acquire liberal newspaper giant The Huffington Post for $315 million, at a cost of over half of the firm’s cash reserves. The firm paid a multiple of 10x EBITDA with $30 million in current EBITDA as a result […]
Faculty Development in International Business to India resonates for participants.
Despite the impact of the global economic slowdown, the economy of India is outpacing many other countries. That’s just one aspect of the country that makes it a fascinating and essential place for business faculty to experience firsthand. Since 2008, the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Florida International University (FIU) has […]
Haitian entrepreneurs are winners in more ways than one.
Although Haiti continues to struggle in the face of challenges, the entrepreneurial impulse remains strong, and with the help of mobile telecommunications operator Digicel and Florida International University (FIU), it recently got a boost. As part of a new awards program sponsored by Digicel, 24 Haitian CEOs and entrepreneurs—selected from a group of 250 applicants—traveled […]
FIU strengthens relationship with Universidad Externado de Colombia.
The arrival of students from Universidad Externado de Colombia for an Inbound Study Tour provided a clear sign that the relationship between the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) and the Colombian university is strengthening. “Universidad Externado is a leading Colombian business school with which we will be signing an undergraduate dual […]
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl delivers on many dreams.
“To support the football team and see snow.” “To not witness a blowout and to see Florida International University (FIU) get wider attention.” Those hopes from Anezka Martinez-Rios (BBA ’01) assistant to the executive dean and the associate dean of the College of Business Administration, and Clifford Perry, associate dean, Landon Undergraduate School, came true […]
Fall Commencement celebrates excellence, dedication.
Fall Commencement at Florida International University (FIU), held on December 13, 2010, began a new phase for those graduating—approximately 584 students in the R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate School of Business and approximately 300 students in the Alvah H. Chapman Graduate School of Business. Among the undergraduates, Adriana M. Ross maintained a 4.0 and nine others […]
Personal plans for advancement help Baptist Health executives be "Women on the Move."
When Roymi Membiela attended the executive leadership development program “Women on the Move” at Florida International University (FIU), she was an assistant vice president at Baptist Health South Florida. At a recent reunion of program participants from Baptist Health, Membiela was now the organization’s new corporate vice president of marketing and public relations. Giving women […]
Generous gift from State Farm promises to increase financial literacy in South Florida.
One of the jewels in the College of Business Administration’s building complex at Florida International University (FIU) is its 2,200 square-foot state-of-the-art trading, research and teaching laboratory. The facility features 50 high-end, networked workstations, advanced audio-visual systems, and LCD screens with real-time data from fixed income, equity and foreign exchange markets, using Bloomberg as the […]