“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” What does this statement by the sixteenth-century Dutch author and philosopher Erasmus have to do with conducting business in the twenty-first? Plenty, it turns out. Aya Chacar “Many people believe that in emerging economies, competition is weaker, enabling new players to be like the […]
Category: Faculty
Sophisticated computer model adds to knowledge about the impacts of hurricanes on insurance costs.
Shahid Hamid, professor in the Department of Finance in the College of Business Administration, director of Florida International University’s International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC)’s Laboratory for Financial, Insurance, and Economic Research, and lead investigator on the project. Researchers who worked on the model, International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) affiliates and board members, and other […]
Innovative approach to dynamic web caching reduces total cost of IT ownership.
Kaushik Dutta The web sites that fuel e-commerce rely increasingly on applications that generate dynamic content to provide visitors with personalized, interactive experiences. As Internet traffic continues to grow and web sites become more complex, performance and scalability are fast becoming major issues for many organizations. At the same time, today’s e-commerce companies are looking […]
Faculty team shares their knowledge in train-the-trainers program.
Chris Ellis, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems instructor, looks on during an exercise using matches and dice designed to teach the theory of constraints. Jerry Haar, associate director of the Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management and professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the head of the table, […]
Robert Garcia named new director of Executive and Professional Education.
Robert Garcia As a graduate of the first Executive MBA class, Robert Garcia (EMBA ’97) is no stranger to the College of Business Administration. “I’m very familiar with what Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam, and Dean of the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business José de la Torre, have done to transform the […]
Blended courses and online teaching veterans share insights at 2006 CIBER Business Language Conference.
Constance Bates, associate professor, Management and International Business Department While online and blended (partly online, partly on-site classroom instruction) course formats bring convenience and flexibility to students, they require a complete overhaul in the way professors present material—a potentially painful process that two professors from Florida International University recently made a little easier. In a […]
ITA program eases some tax pain.
Myron Lubell Not only did tax payers get an extra two days to file their returns this year thanks to April 15 falling on a Saturday, but also low-income earners in the area benefited from the efforts of 120 hard-working students from the College of Business Administration, trained to complete all the required paperwork for […]
Model helps investors and analysts evaluate stock prices.
William Welch When is the price of a stock too high to be justified? That is a question that investors and analysts alike need to answer as they make investment decisions. In the 1990s, a number of company’s stocks were priced very high relative to their free cash flow—what a company generates through its operations […]
Case co-authored by two College of Business Administration faculty members takes center stage at international competition.
Irma Becerra-Fernández The 9th Annual FedEx International Graduate Logistics Case Competition in Fayetteville, Arkansas focused on a case study about the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), written by two members of the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration: Irma Becerra-Fernández, associate professor, and Kuldeep […]
First Albert Haar Award honors owners of The Keyes Company.
Amid warm memories captured in “Through the Years,” a slide presentation showing members of the Pappas family—owners of The Keyes Company—patriarch Theodore J. Pappas (Ted) Pappas, and his sons, Mike and Tim, who now control the firm, were honored at the inaugural Albert Haar Family Business Award Luncheon. The distinguished award is designated for family […]