Last month, 20 Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) members left work early to travel to FIU’s Frost Art Museum for U CREW, a real estate networking event that is an annual highlight for Hollo School of Real Estate students, faculty, alumni and guests. For former FIU undergrad Wendy Hernandez, now a capital markets analyst at […]
School of Accounting Antoinette Smith, associate professor, is the author of the book Insider Secrets to College Classroom Success! (Freedom Stream, August 24, 2015). Department of Finance Reflections from Marcos A. Kerbel, participating adjunct professor, and his wife, Helen, are included in It Happened in Miami, The Magic City-An Oral History, a book co-authored by […]
Barred by diabetes from eating sweets, Joseph Semprevivo was determined to find a way to enjoy the baked goods he craved. Diagnosed at 9 years old, he had no cooking or baking experience, but really missed the sugary treats. Two years later, he started experimenting in the kitchen of his parents’ restaurant. At 15 years […]
It was a dark and stormy night. But torrential rains on December 4, 2015 didn’t stop Hollo School of Real Estate students, professors, alumni and local business leaders connected with the FIU College of Business from attending a year-end celebration. About 140 people attended the event, held at the Metropolis Ballroom at the downtown Epic […]
The Hollo School of Real Estate, including its Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute, formed in partnership with the Miami Association of Realtors, was ranked #1 in the U.S. and #2 globally by the Journal of Real Estate Literature. The Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings highlight faculty and institutions demonstrating achievement in intellectual contributions to […]
Innovate, take risks and embrace technology, Chad Moss, executive vice president of Moss & Associates, urged FIU students at the 2015 Hollo School of Real Estate Jerome Bain Developer Luncheon. “This is an exciting, technology-driven era for the construction industry,” Moss, an FIU alumnus (BS ’94) and member of the FIU Foundation Board of Directors, […]
For many graduates, debt from student loans looms large. But thanks to the generosity of FIU alumnus Malcolm Butters (MSRE ’83), president and co-founder of Butters Construction & Development, Inc., the debt burden for two students who received their Master of Science in International Real Estate (MSIRE) at Florida International University (FIU) has been eased. […]
Celebrating its 100th Anniversary, today’s Miami Beach is hot, a global iconic luxury real estate destination and a city working to resolve urban issues—lack of affordable housing, traffic and aging infrastructure. Learning a full picture of Miami Beach directly from its senior development officials was the highlight of the Hollo School of Real Estate’s 2015 […]
For the second time in three years, a team of graduate students from the Hollo School of Real Estate at Florida International University (FIU) captured third place in the ARGUS Software’s University Challenge. Winners of this annual case competition were announced on March 16, 2015. “When a university team scores high one time, you might […]
College of Business Serving as judges for the FIU Track of the Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge were Associate Professor Karlene Cousins (Department of Decision Sciences and Information System), Professor Seema Pissaris (Department of Management and International Business) and Associate Professor Kimberly A. Taylor (Department of Marketing). Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Min Chen, […]
