If you think you’re smart at age 30, wait until you see how brilliant you can be at age 60. Or older. That happy news was a key message in “The Further Reaches of Adult Development,” a lecture by Harvard University professor Robert Kegan. Part of the Leadership Lectures 2011 hosted by the Center for […]
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Faculty Notes: August 2011
School of Accounting Wendy Gelman has been promoted to senior instructor. Department of Marketing Two articles by John Tsalikis, BMI associate professor of marketing, will be included in a 2012 30th anniversary commemorative issue of The Journal of Business Ethics, the leading academic publication in the area of business ethics. The 50 selections were based […]
Faculty Notes: July 2011
School of Accounting Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership, was recently appointed to a team that is helping the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) set standards related to the preparation and issuing of audit reports by registered public accounting firms. Stewart Appelrouth, Manuel Dieguez, Meghna Singhvi and Shawn Wolf […]
Miami-Dade County principals receive intensive leadership enhancement.
With almost 35 years in education and as principal of a top-performing high school of 3,000 students, Nick JacAngelo might be a hard man to impress. But the 2011 Principals Leadership Development Program at Florida International University (FIU) made a huge impact on him. “I say without hesitation that this was one of the more […]
Faculty Notes: June 2011
School of Accounting C. Delano Gray, instructor, was the first College of Business Administration professor to be the grand marshal for the College of Law commencement. The event took place on May 27, 2011 in the U.S. Century Bank Arena. Department of Finance and Real Estate Ken H. Johnson, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center […]
ASTAR’s John Dasburg heads up Entrepreneurship Week for International MBA students.
“By far, it was the most productive week I’ve ever experienced,” said Summia Chaudhry, a student in the International MBA (IMBA) program at Florida International University (FIU). “We received advice from an amazing lineup of experts, including John Dasburg.” “Global Entrepreneurship Week: Secrets of New Business Development” took place on FIU’s campus in April 2011. […]
Faculty Notes: April 2011
Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, received a $495,980.00 grant from the Agency for Health Care Administration to evaluate the statewide health information exchange being put in by Harris for the State of Florida. This same study will be conducted by one team in […]
International research scientist offers surprising insights into decision making.
How do you make your best or most important decisions . . . especially when you don’t have a lot of time to decide? Do you evaluate all the options carefully, plan a path, modify it and then act with the knowledge that you’ve done all the necessary preparation to ensure your choice is the […]
CEO of NBC Universal shares insights into his path to success.
Jeff Zucker, a Miami public school graduate who rose to the CEO’s office at NBC Universal, told an audience of Florida International University (FIU) students, faculty and alumni that taking risks—and accepting responsibility—were the foundations of his success in business. “Think about the status quo and question the business models in place each step of […]
Principals benefit from new paradigm in leadership training.
Blending established leadership training with best business practices was the core of an innovative Principals Leadership Development Program launched in June at Florida International University (FIU). The inaugural class of thirty public school principals attended the intense weeklong program, a collaboration of FIU’s Center for Leadership and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, with the generous support […]