Cuban-American CPAs Association gala celebrates leaders: past, current and future.

When 250 people gathered at this year’s Cuban-American CPAs Association (CACPA) gala, it was like a Florida International University (FIU) reunion bringing, together current leaders with an eye toward future ones. “I appreciate that the CACPA takes the time to honor community leaders,” said Sharon Lassar, director, School of Accounting, in FIU’s College of Business […]

On-target case studies earn scholarships for retail marketing students.

A shopping trip to a Target retail store now takes on new meaning for students who participated in the Target Case Study program as part of the fall session of the College of Business Administration’s Retail Marketing undergraduate course. [flv:http://business.fiu.edu/newsletters/BusinessNetworks/2009/01/videos/cases.flv 480 360] “The program presents students with the opportunity to solve real-world challenges for Target’s […]

Innovative Latin Trade MBA Challenge offers full scholarship to winning candidate.

From left to right: José de la Torre, Chapman School dean; Livia Muzzi, scholarship winner; and Mike Zellner, Latin Trade publisher Florida International University and Latin Trade magazine recently partnered to launch the Latin Trade MBA Challenge, which offered participants the chance to win a full-tuition scholarship for the International MBA (IMBA) program in the […]

New scholarship endowment sparks the entrepreneurial spirit.

Margarita Gonzalez Student and entrepreneur Margarita Gonzalez rarely follows the traditional path. Already the chief financial officer of AccuBANKER, the company she and her husband founded in Miami in 1981, Gonzalez decided to pursue her Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Florida International University—at the same time her own children were heading off to college. […]

College names William G. McGowan Scholar for 2005-2006.

Shradha Ramchandani Shradha Ramchandani has been named the William G. McGowan Scholar for the upcoming year in the College of Business Administration. The scholarship will cover the tuition for her undergraduate senior year, which she has entered with a 3.904 GPA. Working toward her business degree with a double major in finance and management information […]