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Undergraduate student leaders enjoy dessert reception with faculty.

Undergraduate student leaders enjoy dessert reception with faculty.

When Donald Roomes (MBA ’90), a faculty member in the Department of Management and International Business in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), decided to attend a September 8th dessert reception …

Faculty Notes: September 2011

Faculty Notes: September 2011

Department of Management and International Business
Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects, professor and research fellow, was quoted in article titled “Angola and Brazil Are Buying Portuguese Companies” in Bloomberg Businessweek on September …

Ten Rules For Entrepreneurs To Live By

Ten Rules For Entrepreneurs To Live By

My mind is buzzing with thoughts of a book I just finished reading: The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy Jr. The author follows the inspiring stories of three entrepreneurs who turn their backs on traditional …

Using Customer Mind-Reading and Customized Content to Transform Your Brand

Using Customer Mind-Reading and Customized Content to Transform Your Brand

Experts are terrible at predicting the future. At the dawn of the age of air travel, experts shared a compelling vision: a personal airplane in every garage. When the tape recorder was introduced, experts warned …

Faculty Notes: August 2011

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 …

School of Accounting faculty member selected to help the PCAOB.

School of Accounting faculty member selected to help the PCAOB.

Honors are not new for Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership in the School of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University. According to a study …

Faculty Notes: July 2011

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 …

Haar to heart: the view from Oxford—hope in the age of economic turbulence

Haar to heart: the view from Oxford—hope in the age of economic turbulence

This is the summer of our discontent (if I may borrow from the Bard). The consumer price index is up, optimism is down, the federal budget deficit and national debt are like Representative Barney Frank—big, …

Change the world with “Old School” social networking

Change the world with “Old School” social networking

The Milken Institute published a paper earlier this year (http://www.mikemilken.com/Sputnik-2Q11MIR.pdf) that points to some fundamental problems with our healthcare system. Our system has devolved into providing care (it is a healthCARE system) rather than finding …

Haar to heart: Canada: A True Partner

Haar to heart: Canada: A True Partner

While the the United States talks the talk; Canada walks the walk on Latin American business and trade relations.
For most nations in the Western Hemisphere, a free market economy, including trade and investment liberalization, is the …

Faculty member gets firsthand look at the beauty and challenges defining Africa today.

Faculty member gets firsthand look at the beauty and challenges defining Africa today.

Exciting. Spectacular. Eye-opening. Well-planned. Intense.
These are just some of the words that Joel Barber, associate professor in the College of Business Administration’s Department of Finance and Real Estate, used to describe his recent trip to …

Haar to heart: Latin America—M&A Boom

Haar to heart: Latin America—M&A Boom

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are booming in Latin America and expected to continue at full speed.
The surge in the urge to merge continues in Latin America. On June 14, 2011, Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s …