Opportunity in the field: panelists talk to FIU Business students about finance careers and the CFA.

Opportunity in the field: panelists talk to FIU Business students about finance careers and the CFA.

For many young business professionals, deciding to sit for the all-encompassing Chartered Financial Analyst exam may seem like volunteering to wrestle a bear. Still, as panelists from the CFA Society Miami explained to a room filled with Florida International University (FIU) College of Business students, the test yields a top-notch credential while reinforcing knowledge acquired […]

Commercial Real Estate Leaders Visit FIU to Support Women – and men – at Hollo School of Real Estate. 


Commercial Real Estate Leaders Visit FIU to Support Women – and men – at Hollo School of Real Estate.

Last month, 20 Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) members left work early to travel to FIU’s Frost Art Museum for U CREW, a real estate networking event that is an annual highlight for Hollo School of Real Estate students, faculty, alumni and guests. For former FIU undergrad Wendy Hernandez, now a capital markets analyst at […]

FIU Business’ “Data Panthers” win U.S. leg of Santander NEO’s Challenge, advance to Madrid.

While they study analytics every day, it’s rare that students in FIU’s Information Systems and Business Analytics Department (ISBA) have the chance to work with massive real-world financial data. That’s why global financial giant Banco Santander’s first Santander NEO´s Challenge, an international university competition, posed an incredible opportunity to put their classroom knowledge to a […]

FIU’s March 8 Geopolitical Summit highlights “The Dark Side of the Web,” where business meets international relations.

What do business, secured data and international relations have in common? Just about everything these days. The importance of those links will shine on March 8 at FIU’s Geopolitical Summit. The one-day event, titled “The Dark Side of the Web,” is sponsored by FIU’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), with […]

FIU Business’ new masters program prepares professionals for the future of marketing.

Marketing has always been about knowing your customer. But figuring out what people want today takes contemporary skills: understanding the digital world and analytics, and how both inform the art of branding. Learning to combine those components is at the heart of Florida International University’s new Master of Science in Marketing, said Anthony D. Miyazaki, […]