At no time in recent history has prudent investing been more important. A group of students in the College of Business Administration will try their hand at the process using real money—thanks to generous donors—and under the guidance of an eleven-person advisory board composed of members of the business community. “The board will ask tough […]
Tag: Joyce Elam
College partners with Beacon Experience to deliver memorable holiday for at-risk kids.
Joyce J. Elam is well known as the executive dean of the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) and as vice provost of FIU Online. Dany Garcia, founder and CEO of a Miami-based investment firm, is also well known at FIU and within the college. She serves on the FIU Foundation Board […]
Fall Commencement ceremony brings all business school graduates together.
On December 16, 2008, approximately 1,274 individuals made the passage from student to alumna or alumnus at the Fall Commencement in the U.S. Century Bank Arena on the University Park campus. For the first time since the 2004 Spring Commencement, the business school’s entire student body—from the undergraduate, graduate, and School of Accounting programs—participated in […]
Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame to celebrate its ten-year anniversary.
Mark your calendar for the ten-year celebration of Florida International University’s Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach Saturday, May 16, 2009 Attire: black tie 6:30 p.m.: sponsor reception 7:00 p.m.: guest reception and silent auction 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.: dinner, program, and dancing Together with its title sponsor, SunTrust Bank, Miami, the College […]
Chapman alumni attend annual holiday party.
On December 11, 2008, more than 100 Chapman Graduate School alumni gathered during opening week of the Patricia and Philip Frost Museum to meet, mingle, and make merry for the holidays. The 3rd annual holiday party brought together Chapman graduates from various graduating classes, faculty, staff, and program managers to reconnect and network. Executive Dean […]
Capital Markets Lab offers unique ambiance and opportunity for learning.
The 2,200 square-foot Capital Markets Lab (CML) in the new College of Business Administration complex hums with action and exudes the aura of a bustling start-up. Since January, 2008, when classes began there, the area—animated by a curving 66-foot long, real-time stock quote ticker like those in brokerage firms years ago and an array of […]
Database on women-led businesses grows with third year of input.
Researchers exploring the special challenges and achievements of business women in leadership roles will find a wealth of data in an annually enriched database being built within Florida International University. For the third consecutive year, the College of Business Administration; the Center for Leadership; and the Metropolitan Center, all part of the university; along with […]
Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame ceremony celebrates a different kind of green.
Each year, the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame (EHOF) induction ceremony and luncheon, the College of Business Administration’s largest alumni event of the year, makes a glittering mark. On May 8, 2008, 450 guests—including many alumni and former inductees—celebrated the tradition for the ninth time. Malcolm Butters (MBA ’83), president and co-founder of Butters Construction & […]
International MBA offers exciting support for prospective, incoming, and graduating students.
Thirty-five years ago, David R. Parker, chief operating officer, The Archstone Partnerships, and chair of the Florida International University Foundation Board of Trustees, received a life-changing opportunity upon completing his graduate work at the Harvard University Business School. “Rather than leaping right into the workforce, I took advantage of a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship that […]
Community benefits from recent reaffirmation of College of Business Administration’s AACSB-International accreditation.
After years of hard work on the part of faculty, staff, and administrators to strengthen the quality of the business school, and after months of preparing complex, in-depth reports, the College of Business Administration hosted an AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business—peer review team from January 27-29, 2008. The reviewers’ task: to […]