Faculty Notes: August 2011

School of Accounting Wendy Gelman has been promoted to senior instructor. Department of Marketing Two articles by John Tsalikis, BMI associate professor of marketing, will be included in a 2012 30th anniversary commemorative issue of The Journal of Business Ethics, the leading academic publication in the area of business ethics. The 50 selections were based […]

Faculty Notes: July 2011

School of Accounting Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership, was recently appointed to a team that is helping the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) set standards related to the preparation and issuing of audit reports by registered public accounting firms. Stewart Appelrouth, Manuel Dieguez,  Meghna Singhvi and Shawn Wolf […]

ASTAR’s John Dasburg heads up Entrepreneurship Week for International MBA students.

“By far, it was the most productive week I’ve ever experienced,” said Summia Chaudhry, a student in the International MBA (IMBA) program at Florida International University (FIU). “We received advice from an amazing lineup of experts, including John Dasburg.” “Global Entrepreneurship Week: Secrets of New Business Development” took place on FIU’s campus in April 2011. […]

Faculty Notes: April 2011

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, received a $495,980.00 grant from the Agency for Health Care Administration to evaluate the statewide health information exchange being put in by Harris for the State of Florida. This same study will be conducted by one team in […]

Jeff Zucker

CEO of NBC Universal shares insights into his path to success.

Jeff Zucker, a Miami public school graduate who rose to the CEO’s office at NBC Universal, told an audience of Florida International University (FIU) students, faculty and alumni that taking risks—and accepting responsibility—were the foundations of his success in business. “Think about the status quo and question the business models in place each step of […]

Principals benefit from new paradigm in leadership training.

Blending established leadership training with best business practices was the core of an innovative Principals Leadership Development Program launched in June at Florida International University (FIU). The inaugural class of thirty public school principals attended the intense weeklong program, a collaboration of FIU’s Center for Leadership and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, with the generous support […]