For the past 15 years, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides have been the tools of a life-changing annual competition at FIU’s Chapman Graduate School of Business. Dozens of the school’s most ambitious graduate students take on the case competition, recently branded as the Chapman Cup Challenge. Students organize into teams of consultants, learning business analysis […]
October has come and gone, and what a lively month it was at the College of Business! Let’s take a look back at some of our favorite images from the month captured by photographer Kayla Hauge. FIU Panther Sales Tournament Learn more: https://biznews.fiu.edu/2016/10/fiu-students-compete-to-seal-the-deal-in-the-panther-sales-tournament/ FIU Chapman Cup Finals Learn more: https://business.fiu.edu/chapman-cup/ FIU SunTrust FIU Financial Wellness […]
On February 13, 2016, five FIU students took on the Florida Intercollegiate Case Competition, a 24-hour test of strategy, stamina and presentation skills sponsored by the University of South Florida in Tampa. After three months of almost constant preparation, and with less than two hours’ sleep that night, FIU’s team, the Mercury Group, walked into […]
After almost 24 straight hours of pouring through spreadsheets, planning PowerPoints and many doses of caffeine, competitor Daniel Solana had one immediate reaction upon learning that his team had not placed first. “When’s the next case competition?” Solana, a graduate student in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), participated in the Intercollegiate […]
