The College of Business Administration congratulates eight faculty members on their recent promotions to the next rung of the academic ladder. The following were promoted from associate professor to full professor: Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, Knight Ridder Research Professor of Management Information Systems and director, Eugenio Pino and Family Global […]
Tag: Department of Management and International Business
Haar to heart: The quest for talent–a never-ending challenge
Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google have it. Fred Smith of FedEx, Steve Jobs of Apple and Carlos Ghosn of Renault and Nissan also have it. Vikram Pandit of Citicorp, Jeffrey Immelt of GE and Bob Nardelli, recent CEO of Chrysler and Home Depot before that, do not. I am speaking of talent. The 19th […]
Haar to heart: We, the people, chose to be Ponzi prey.
In casting the net of blame for our current economic predicament, we’ve hauled in Wall Street bankers, mortgage lenders, realtors, financial intermediaries, stock brokers and bond traders, insurers, politicians, the Federal Reserve, rating agencies and other alleged instigators, culprits and accomplices. Conspicuously absent from the list-for to include them would be politically incorrect, not to […]
Executive MBA students hit the road to see how China does business.
Executive MBA students visiting General Motors in Shanghai The College of Business Administration’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program offers entrepreneurs and professionals the opportunity to integrate new knowledge and apply new skills and insights into their current work. Classroom learning—including courses on international business and global finance—plays a key role in the EMBA experience. The coursework […]
Is continual change always a good thing?
Chris Changwha Chung presents his dissertation in the dissertation panel session at the Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting. Change remains a constant factor in today’s business world—one that affects organizations of all types and sizes, including international joint ventures. To succeed in this volatile environment, conventional wisdom suggests that managers should alter their organizational […]
College of Business Administration organizes international conference.
José de la Torre Members of the faculty and staff of the College of Business Administration and the Chapman Graduate School are busily preparing to host the 42nd annual meeting of the Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA), which will take place in Miami in the college’s new business building complex on October 28-31, […]
Alumni Profile: Joseph E. Brown (BBA ’97)
Major at Florida International University: Management and International Business Joseph E. Brown (BBA ’97) Additional Education: Master’s in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University Current Employment: Administrative officer for the United States Department of Defense Here to There: Brown was in law enforcement while attending the university. After 9/11, he felt it was his calling […]
BBA+ Weekend group takes community service to new level by entering the policy-making process.
How bright is the Sunshine State when it comes to autism? Weekend BBA+ class with Professor Robert Hogner That’s the question students in the Business in Society class, part of their BBA+ Weekend program in the College of Business Administration, asked in their required community service project. The answer: Not very. Although the conclusion takes […]
BBA+ Weekend class reaches out to better the lives of children in Guatemala.
Just south of the Mexican border, small villages dot the mountainous areas of rural Guatemala. The inhabitants, mostly Mayan families, have overwhelming needs but almost no access to resources of any kind. Education for many Guatemalan children is rudimentary at best. Health aid, sufficient food, adequate housing, clean water—life’s most basic necessities—are out of reach […]
College captures second contract with the Inter-American Defense College.
The College of Business Administration has begun work on a ten-module, graduate-level online training program on civil-military relations for the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Defense College (IADC). The project brings together the expertise of FIU Online and the Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management to create the program, which is aimed at senior-level military officers […]