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Business and culture combined in marketing study abroad trip to Europe.

August 28, 2017

Students in the College of Business’ marketing study abroad program spent a packed 12 days in Spain, Italy and France getting a first-hand look at important local manufacturing and service-based companies including the Codorniu Winery in Barcelona and the L’Occitane manufacturing facility in Provence, as well as the Port Authority in Nice. Their hotel: Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the […]

A return to Bandhwari boosts FIU honor society’s social entrepreneurship project.

A bracelet helps launch International Business Honor Society project.

Internship at KPMG leads to a move to Charlotte for one FIU student.

September 5, 2017

Full Name John Cuadra (BBA, BAcc ’16) Undergraduate Major Management Information Systems (MIS) and Accounting Graduate Major Master of Science in Accounting (currently enrolled at FIU) Internship: KPMG, Charlotte, North Carolina, in IT Audit & Assurance. KPMG is one of the “Big 4” international accounting firms. Offered a full-time position in IT, Audit and Assurance […]

My Internship: Next Level Marketing

Scholarship winner gets big surprise.

Faculty Notes: July-August 2017

September 20, 2017

Accounting Associate Professor Antoinette Smith has been appointed to the board of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. Smith was also named one of Miami’s Top Black Educators 2017 by Legacy Miami magazine, published July 17, 2017. Finance Department Chair Shahid Hamid was quoted in a story titled “In booming South Florida, another Hurricane Andrew […]

Shahid Hamid and his windstorm model recertified by state.

Faculty Notes May-June 2017

Alumni Notes: Fall 2017

August 24, 2017

Maria C. Alonso (MBA ‘91) was named president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Miami-Dade. She was previously senior vice president and Miami market manager at Bank of America. Felipe Inoa (MS ’07) has started a new job as head of information technology for the Americas at TMF Group, which provides financial […]

Good corporate citizenry, no longer a choice but a necessity

August 29, 2017

When queried at a 1909 business meeting about the choice of colors available for his automobiles, Henry Ford replied that customers could have any color they wanted as long as it is black. Fast forward to the late 20th and early 21st centuries and consumers today are now in the driver’s seat (no pun intended). […]