Between the hard work of earning a college degree and the next exciting step in a person’s life comes a ceremony of pride and recognition, a time for tears, hugs, handshakes and quite a bit of “woo hoo-ing.” Approximately 1,088 students in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) graduated in the summer […]
In just its second appearance in a national sales competition, the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) placed 23rd. Representing the college at the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC) were Jessica Carbajal, Joseph Mendola, Juan Mugica, Jose Nunez and Daniel Torrens. The rigorous competition puts students through a number of elimination rounds. Using […]
With the effort to capture a new customer costing eight times what retaining a customer does, companies understandably see customer retention as a competitive advantage. Recently, one of City Furniture’s retail stores was the beneficiary of input from students in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) who proposed ways for the store […]
Neither Ashley Castillo nor Joseph Mendola had ever done anything like this before. But both students turned their keen interest in business sales into winning performances, making a name for themselves and the College of Business at the recent International Collegiate Sales Competition (ICSC). The competition focuses on developing the critical skills today’s collegiate sales […]
