Marianella Camacho (BA ’94), working on her Professional MBA at the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), liked everything about the 2016 Prospanica Conference & Career Expo in Houston, Texas, held September 28 – October 1, 2016. Presented by the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the conference offered opportunities for career advancement through […]
California was indeed the Golden State when the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) held their 22nd annual conference and career expo in Anaheim October 13-15, 2011. Approximately 25 graduate students and alumni from the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) were among the more than 5,000 attendees who found the event […]
One-stop shopping. Just-in-time. Call it what you will, a career fair held in Orlando with University of Central Florida (UCF) and University of Florida (UF) provided a great opportunity for 44 Florida International University (FIU) graduate students in the College of Business Administration to meet potential employers. “Starting in 2005, we hosted the MBA/MS ‘Just […]
Jackie Naranjo (BBA ’08) embodies the notion that an unexpected career option can turn out to be extremely rewarding. Through the summer internship program offered by the Hispanic National Internship Program (HNIP) of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), she landed a position in the contracting office of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). […]
Currently enrolled in the joint International MBA and Master of Science in Finance degree program, ardent runner Heather Thurston prefers the fast track in all aspects of her life. “My whole family runs both marathons and shorter races in and around South Florida,” she said. “Even when we’re all running at a different pace . […]
The weather in Minnesota was decidedly chilly in early October, but for the Florida International University (FIU) contingent attending the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) Conference and Career Expo in Minneapolis, the atmosphere was anything but cold. More than a dozen students and alumni pursued hot job leads and participated in warm networking events […]
Each year, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) awards the Brillante Award for Excellence to outstanding corporate and educational leaders that reflect the society’s mission to foster Hispanic leadership through graduate management education and professional development. The 2008 Brillante Award for an educational institution went to Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration. […]
Martin Fernandez, Tatiana Lopez, Ruben Salazar, and Mahendran Jawaharial compete at NSHMBA. From its booth alongside partner Bank of America (BOA) to its co-sponsored breakfast with BOA attended by several hundred registrants to the sterling performance of a team of four Professional MBA (PMBA) students invited to compete in a case competition, the College of […]
Opening day at NSHMBA Conference and Career Expo When Anand Shah, a student in the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in the college’s Chapman School, was offered a full scholarship to attend the 16th Annual Conference and Career Expo of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) in 2005, he declined. Instead, he spent the next […]
