Multi-tasking skills honed at FIU prove essential for business success.

For Bruce Welch (IMBA-MSF ’07, BBA ’05), multi-tasking is a way of life. Currently a financial analyst at Cargill Latin America—whose parent company has sales exceeding $120 billion—he faces tasks that span the daily calculation of the business unit’s multi-million dollar commodity futures trading exposure to overseeing weekly sales of structured financial products with investment […]

Virtual internship with U.S. Department of Commerce yields real results.

The for-benefit business sector represents a new U.S. economic trend where for-profit businesses also take on a social mission. What, if any, is the impact of this trend on government policy? As part of her recent virtual internship with the International Trade Administration (ITA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), Pooja Tripathi, a student […]