IMBA scholarship recipients feted at luncheon.

Scholarship recipients in the International MBA (IMBA) program at Florida International University (FIU), gain a two-fold benefit: the awards recognize their potential while easing the way for them financially as they complete the Chapman Graduate …

Graduate students calculate ways to increase financial fitness of the homeless.

What would make a big difference in the life of a homeless person, beyond the obvious answer of a home and job?
“Surveys show that people in shelters want education programs,” said Jeff Ghitman, leader of …

Faculty gathers to celebrate achievements.

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 …

Largest-ever IMBA group participates in first-time off-campus orientation.

Though you can swim with dolphins at Hawks Cay Resort in the Florida Keys, the newest members of the International MBA (IMBA) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) …

Event brings International MBA into focus.

Although the International MBA (IMBA) program always obtains written evaluations from graduates, this year, the staff tried something new: a focus group. From the 73 students who will finish the program in the summer semester, …

Faculty members contribute at leading international business and management conference.

The prospect of four days in Milan, Italy, would entice travelers of all sorts. For scholars in the areas of international business and management, the lure was even greater when the Academy of International Business …

International MBA offers exciting support for prospective, incoming, and graduating students.

Thirty-five years ago, David R. Parker, chief operating officer, The Archstone Partnerships, and chair of the Florida International University Foundation Board of Trustees, received a life-changing opportunity upon completing his graduate work …

Do what you love, love what you do: New tool offers ways to measure work preferences.

“Whistle while you work…”

G. Ronald Gilbert

So sing the merry dwarfs in the Walt Disney animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as they go about doing their work. If only everyone could be …

Conference enables women to take next steps along leadership path.

Team building acitivity, Acid River, aimed at testing participants’ abilities to prioritize, organize, and mobilize around a challenge.

“Women on the Move: Advancing Authentic Leaders” brought together experts on leadership and women rising in their organizations.
Organized …

Telefónica and college exchange expertise to benefit each other.

Through its offerings, the college’s Executive and Professional Education (EPE) office provides an array of programs that satisfies the needs of many different kinds of professionals and their organizations. And if a company has a …

Second offering of Professional MBA achieves capacity enrollment.

Luis A. Franceschi has three words for the Chapman Graduate School’s Professional MBA, which he recently began as a member of the second class: “Super, super, super.”As vice president of sales for the family-owned Simco …

Beijing provides dramatic backdrop to program coordinated by college’s faculty member.

Mary Ann Von Glinow addresses AIB delegates.

When Mary Ann Von Glinow, professor, Management and International Business Department in the college and director of Florida International University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), …

Professional MBA program gets off the ground.

Thirty-four students from more than a dozen countries have begun the new Professional MBA (PMBA) program at the FIU Broward Pines Center. That’s just one shy of the ambitious initial enrollment goal set by the …

IMBA advisory board zeroes in on scholarships.

Dana Farrow

The International MBA (IMBA) advisory board held its fall meeting, delayed by Hurricane Wilma and its aftermath, in early December. Albert Couto, the board’s chairman, welcomed the members. Paola Moreno, IMBA …