Even after the leaking well is permanently sealed, the Deepwater Horizon drama won’t be anywhere near over. Just in Thursday’s BP oil spill update, the MMS director is out, the spill is resized, and hearings proliferate on Capitol Hill. So far, so good is the word as America waits for the results of the so-called […]
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CFO Roundtable examines what healthcare reform means to South Florida.
Nancy Borkowski, director of the Healthcare MBA program in the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University’s (FIU), opened a CFO Roundtable with an unusual challenge: Be the first to assemble six pieces of brightly colored foam into a pencil cube. More than 150 executives, alumni and students gathered at the College of […]
FIU Business and MIT Sloan aim innovative marketing strategies at specific student demographics.
“Targeting the Market,” an article showcasing the award-winning Uncommon Thinkers branding campaign for the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) appears in the May/June 2010 issue of BizEd. This prestigious bi-monthly magazine, published by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), is read by members and partners in 76 countries […]
FIU marketing major scores a media relations internship with the Florida Marlins.
In April, 1993, when he was six years old, Tony Valdes (BBA ’09) attended his first Florida Marlins game. It also was the first game for the newest team in Major League Baseball’s National League. A graduate of G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School in Miami, he has cheered at many Marlins games since. Now, […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, May 15-21, 2010
U.S. Equities Major Earnings Announcements This week (as of Thursday (5/20/10)) the U.S. large cap stock index fell almost 6% on what many are calling “Continued Euro Worries”. There, could be a number of issues ranging from technical levels to global economic issues, politics, or simply over priced equities that could explain the recent market […]
Credit union executives choose FIU to learn strategies for 2010 and beyond.
Last year’s financial crisis underscored the need for global participants to actively manage and insulate their institutions from unpredictable market forces. When executives from credit unions in the Caribbean wanted to learn more about these forces and incorporate protections against risks, they turned to the expertise of the College of Business Administration at Florida International […]
Disney Institute program stresses importance of service quality in healthcare.
Hospitals, clinics, group medical practices, dental practices and freestanding medical care providers share a common goal: distinguishing themselves through the delivery of quality healthcare services. To learn more about how to achieve this objective, nearly 200 healthcare professionals recently gathered at Florida International University (FIU) to attend the Disney Institute’s “Approach to Quality Services for […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, May 10-14, 2010
Global Markets React to Euro Bailout This Monday we saw the EU, along with the IMF release a near trillion dollar rescue plan of the EU region. After the sharp and historical selloff the markets witnessed last week, Monday opened much higher (close to a 4% gap in most indices) on the news of the […]
FIU Business’s use of social media wins national award.
For the second consecutive year, Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration was selected as the winner of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals’ (NAGAP) award for promotional excellence, the longest-standing award granted by the organization. No other school has won the award twice since its initial presentation in 1998. According to the […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, May 3-7, 2010
U.S. Market Crashes Intraday On Thursday, May 06, 2010, the U.S. market saw extreme volatility that may not have been seen since Black Monday in 1987. At about 2:45 EST the S&P 500 reached a low of 1065.79, this was 100 points lower than the open, or about – 8.6%. Within 20 minutes of this […]