FIU Business this fall welcomes nine new faculty members with expertise ranging from international finance, global corporate strategy and insider trading to technology selection and adoption. Silver Chung joins FIU Business’s School of Accounting as an assistant professor after earning her PhD from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. Her research focuses on […]
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Faculty Notes: November 2011
Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam was featured along with nine other deans of business schools in an article titled “Ten on Ten,” which appeared in the November/December issue of BizEd, a publication of AACSB. Her section was called “Where is IT taking us?” Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor […]
Faculty Notes
School of Accounting C. Delano Gray, instructor, was elected vice chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2010-2012 academic years. According to a study published in Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting (2010) Robert W. McGee, director, Center for Accounting, Auditing and Tax Studies (CAATS), ranked #1 in North America for the 23-year […]
South Florida's tofu king gives back.
During the late 1970s, in the heart of one of Miami’s roughest neighborhoods, George and Einez Yap borrowed money from family and friends to launch LEASA Industries to grow and sell bean sprouts. When the Yaps started, they knew nothing about hydroponic farming, and their first year in business was brutal. Einez worked two jobs […]
Alumni Notes
Luis Arrizurieta (BA ’87) has joined real estate investment firm J.I Kislak as chief financial officer. Braulio Baez (BBA ’88) has joined Holland & Knight’s public-policy practice as senior counsel. He has been a Florida public service commissioner since 2000 and chairman of the panel for two years. Joy Venero (BBA ’92) has been promoted […]