Article Archive for August 2009
Jobless turning to business schools to bolster résumés.
Economic troubles have a way of driving people to business schools for graduate degrees as a hedge against unemployment, and today is no different, administrators of local business colleges say.
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Summer internship pays in multiple ways.
“I am looking at lots of opportunities I didn’t have before . . . almost more than I can decide among.”
That’s the enviable position Miguel Lugo, a finance, marketing and international business major in the …
Faculty Notes
Department of Management and International Business
Several faculty members, along with a recent PhD graduate and a current doctoral student, won awards at the Academy of International Business (AIB) 2009 Annual Meeting held in San Diego, …
Camp provides invaluable experiences for promising accounting students.
Summer means camp to many young people. Instead of horseback riding, crafts or swimming, 21 high school students from the area recently got to participate in a very different kind of day camp: the Accounting …
South Florida Business Journal selects FIU Business alumna as one of 25 “Influential Business Women of 2009.”
Silka Gonzalez (MACC ’05) discusses Enterprise Risk Management—a boutique IT consulting firm specializing in information security of which she is president and founder—and how a driving passion for her work led to her recognition as …
Modesto A. Maidique takes on dual role in College of Business Administration.
With his 23-year tenure as president of Florida International University (FIU) just ended, Modesto A. Maidique has already embarked on the next phase of his career: as a professor of management and executive director of …
IMBA Study Abroad: Second week in China!
This week we are becoming more accustomed to the Qingdao way. People speak somewhat aggressively, yet they are not angry, and taxi drivers are absolutely insane, but they have to be to survive Qingdao traffic …
