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School of Accounting
C. Delano Gray, instructor, was elected vice chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2010-2012 academic years.
According to a study published in Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting (2010) Robert W. …
iVentures: A New Road for New Ventures
Can anything match the excitement of watching a chance encounter evolve into something real?
What a thrill it was to stand in a conference room at the College of Business Administration and welcome leaders of the …
BizBits
Two colleagues in the Department of Marketing at Florida International University, (FIU)—Peter Dickson, professor, Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Logistics Management, and Walfried Lassar, Ryder Professor and director, Ryder Center for Supply Chain Management and …
New editor of premier international business journal gives preview at FIU.
Even before officially beginning his three-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), one of the leading publications in its field, John Cantwell came to the College of Business Administration at …
iVentures: Power of a chance encounter
Have you ever had a chance encounter that turned into a pivotal move for your business? Maybe it was a quick chat at a party that didn’t seem to mean anything at the time—but months …
Computers and the Crash: Human Intuition Cannot Be Replaced
Last week’s one-day stock market plunge nearly ruined our kitchen. We are remodeling our house and planned to sell stock to cover the cost of kitchen cabinets, but when we called our broker to initiate …
Haar to heart: An inconvenient truth—the federal government, not Wall Street, deserves the greatest blame
If one were to combine elements of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel The Castle, Edward Albee’s Zoo Story and the Spanish Inquisition, one would have the recent congressional hearings on alleged malfeasance by Wall Street investment …
iVentures: Growing a “gut feeling” at the iEntrepreneurship Lab
How do angel investors and venture capitalists make the decision about investing in a new venture? How do they determine if the company they are betting on is worth $7 million, $25 million or $100 …
Find an Expansive View
Picking the right scale for your mission is an art. Define your purpose too narrowly and soon run out of aspirations to fill. Set your sights too high and you risk de-motivating your people. To …
College ranks high in operations research.
According to a recent article in Interfaces, the College of Business Administration has an outstanding record in practical applications of operations research and finds itself in impressive company.
An editorial titled “The Eighth Rothkopf …
iVentures: TEDx—A “Tipping Point”
Whenever you throw a party, there’s always a tipping point—the moment you know you have enough of a crowd for your guests to begin great conversations.
The same principle can be applied to any dynamic community, …
Getting Your Mojo Back
Their unprecedented winning streak was about to end. After 77 wins, the most by any women’s college basketball team, the women of the University of Connecticut Huskies walked off the court with a 20-12 deficit …
Faculty Notes
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Irma Becerra-Fernandez (PhD ’94), professor and director, Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center and fellow, Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center, has co-authored a book titled Business Intelligence, published by Wiley.
Finance and Real Estate
John Zdanowicz, …
iVentures: Creative Time
Hello and welcome to my blog. I joined the Pino Center as its director last June. Since that time, my life has been a whirlwind of meetings and endless travel. In my “downtime” (like when …
