Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg On the way to assuming his new U.S. embassy post in Bolivia, Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg stopped in South Florida for a briefing with locally based business people and other Latin American experts familiar with the current business climate in that country. Held at the Omni-Colonnade Hotel in Coral Cables on […]
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Workshop takes a tropical twist: Farmer-to-Farmer program connects with tropical agricultural research.
Tropical fruit production and research take place in the two geographic extremes of the United States: South Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean region; and Hawaii and Guam in the Pacific Basin. While they face many of the same challenges, researchers in both regions had never come together […]
New Farmer-to-Farmer partnership plants seeds of opportunity in Central America.
Agricultural businesses and farming organizations in Central America may soon begin reaping the benefits of U.S.-developed agricultural technology thanks to a new partnership between the John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) Program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Public Intellectual Property Resources for Agriculture (PIPRA). In April, the College of Business Administration’s […]
Faculty team shares their knowledge in train-the-trainers program.
Chris Ellis, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems instructor, looks on during an exercise using matches and dice designed to teach the theory of constraints. Jerry Haar, associate director of the Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management and professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the head of the table, […]
Wertheim lecture generates positive energy, offering insider’s insight into the future of the oil industry.
The topic was timely. The discussion was engaging. The audience was enthusiastic. All and all, the college’s Herbert A. Wertheim lecture held on April 6, 2006, at Florida International University was deemed an enriching experience for the some eighty faculty, students, alumni, and guests in attendance. The guest lecturer was Jesse J. Tyson, president and […]
First Albert Haar Award honors owners of The Keyes Company.
Amid warm memories captured in “Through the Years,” a slide presentation showing members of the Pappas family—owners of The Keyes Company—patriarch Theodore J. Pappas (Ted) Pappas, and his sons, Mike and Tim, who now control the firm, were honored at the inaugural Albert Haar Family Business Award Luncheon. The distinguished award is designated for family […]
Speaker paints clear picture of family-owned business challenges.
From left, Jack Moore, corporate director, Benjamin Moore & Company; Alan Carsrud, director, Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, and Jon I. Kislak, principal, Antares Capital Corporation and chairman of the Pino Center’s Board of Advisors. Jack Moore, a fourth-generation family member of Benjamin Moore Paints—a company founded in 1883 that turned a profit […]
Bank mergers and risk: Research offers encouraging news.
“Naïve investors focus on the possible return on their investment without realizing a basic tenet in finance: if there is return, there has to be risk and vice versa,” said Arun Prakash, Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management research professor in finance in the College of Business Administration. Prakash and Suchismita Mishra, assistant professor […]
College receives major award from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $286,209 to the College of Business Administration to conduct a program entitled “Small and Medium Enterprises Center of Excellence” (SMECE). The College’s Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management will manage it. “Early support from Florida FTAA, Inc. was crucial in helping us to develop a […]