When Jessica Valente (BBA ’09) and Carolina Nieto became Florida International University’s (FIU) first graduate students to win the Espirito Santo Bank Scholarship, they were not the only ones to benefit, though benefit they did. …
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As executive director of Planeta Feliz, Amaury Blondet (BBA ’08), wants to make the “world happier and more sustainable.” He has a simple message and it’s one he is acting on: “Get involved. Help. Everyone …
On September 25, 2009, the Faculty Awards Luncheon reinforced that students truly appreciate the efforts that faculty members in the College of Business Administration make on their behalf. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as …
The for-benefit business sector represents a new U.S. economic trend where for-profit businesses also take on a social mission. What, if any, is the impact of this trend on government policy?
As part of her recent …
Members of the Dean’s Alumni Circle recently got a reminder of the school-room instruction to put on their thinking caps. Only this time, the person putting on the caps was Joyce Elam, executive dean of …
When the Ernst & Young Student Learning Lab was dedicated, it meant a great deal to many constituencies of the college: a group of alumni, their firm, current and future business students, and the business …
BankUnited has named Nicholas G. Bustle (MIB ’88) senior executive vice president, Commercial Banking. Bustle will oversee commercial, middle market, small-business banking and commercial real estate services to customers in BankUnited’s Florida footprint. Bustle is …
It’s a new beginning for the Dean’s Council—the college’s principal advisory board, which offers strategic guidance to the business school administrators—and for Mark Rosenberg, FIU’s fifth president.
At its first meeting of the 2009-2010 fiscal year, …
Since 2006, Suchi Mishra, a member of the Finance and Real Estate Department, has organized seminars at which leading scholars present to faculty and PhD students.
The 2009 season got off to a strong start on …