As oil continues to fill the waters off my wife’s home state, Louisiana, inventors around the world are surely scheming up new technologies to prevent such catastrophes from happening again. While I wish for their success and am thankful for their efforts, history says their energy would be better spent engineering a different kind of […]
Month: June 2010
Revenues down but spirits up for women business leaders, reports FIU survey.
The recession has had a major impact on Florida businesses and non-profit organizations. But, overwhelmingly, women executives throughout the state demonstrate confidence, hope, resilience and optimism. Those findings are from the 2010 Florida’s Woman-led Businesses study, the fifth of its kind conducted by the Center for Leadership at Florida International University (FIU). More than 300 […]
College ranks #7 in sustainability for undergraduate business programs.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek asked senior business students nationwide to grade their business programs from A-F in 12 specialty areas. The results: the College of Business Administration captured an impressive seventh-place standing in sustainability. But the college is just getting started. An expansion to the curriculum and increased journal submissions are among the areas that are expected […]
FIU launches Dual Degree healthcare program with Southern Medical University in China.
Even though the Healthcare MBA (HCMBA) in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) won’t begin for a few more months, it is already expanding: to China. The relationship between FIU and Southern Medical University (SMU) in Guangzhou—ranked as one of the top medical universities in China—resulted from a chance conversation between […]
Faculty Notes
School of Accounting Kenneth Henry (PhD ’08, MACC ’94), clinical associate professor, was quoted twice in a report published by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Launched in June 2010 at the London School of Economics, the report, titled Risk and Reward: Tempering the Pursuit of Profit, looks at how the financial system went […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, June 21-25, 2010
Economic Data FOMC Keeps Rates at a Record Low This week there was a great deal of economic volatility amid a large number of government reports indicating that the economic recovery is much more pessimistic than previously thought. Despite new home sales being at their lowest level since 1963, US jobless claims and durable goods […]
Entrepreneur combines passion and pragmatism.
For Mariano de Socarraz (BBA ’89), founder and CEO of CorePlus, LLC, a specialty pathology lab, business success requires finding something you can be passionate about without losing the discipline of developing a business plan, talking to mentors and having a vision of where you are headed. It has worked for him. In fact, he […]
FIU Business’s news portal marks one-year anniversary.
How to best communicate with the College of Business Administration’s many constituencies? How can the business school effectively cover the interesting stories students, faculty and alumni have to share? Is there a proven way to keep the information timely? How can a new model take advantage of the latest technologies? Members of the Department of […]
BizBits
Martin Cerda (BBA ’86), founder and research director of Encuesta, Inc., won the “Sixth Annual HispanSource Award for Achievement in Hispanic Marketing Research”—the most coveted award in the Hispanic marketing research industry. He was recognized for his career spanning 25 years in U.S. Hispanic marketing and opinion research, and his commitment to the Latino community […]
The duck flaps ahead of the competition.
Earlier in the week I started reviewing the insurance giant Aflac. In 2004 we start to see the growth rates of Aflac suddenly starting to climb and a new radical idea was starting to pay off for Aflac: the duck. Over 2003 and 2004, Aflac started to enjoy the fruits of an uncommon bet it […]