FIU center creates a passage to India, virtually.

FIU center creates a passage to India, virtually.

Since 2008, FIU’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) has sponsored a trip to India, bringing faculty to the nation’s top corporations and iconic historical sites and expanding its offerings through the years. When COVID-19 skuttled plans for the 2020 in-person program, known as Professional Development in International Business (PDIB), the center decided […]

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FIU Business Professors Join Select Group of Distinguished International Business Scholars

Two additional professors from FIU Business have been inducted as Academy of International Business (AIB) fellows. Sumit Kundu, holder of the James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business and associate dean, international programs; and William Newburry, chair of the Department of International Business and Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business, were inducted as […]

U.S. Department of Education awards FIU $1.1 million to create Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

U.S. Department of Education awards FIU $1.1 million to create Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

  The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Florida International University a $1,128,000 grant, which will have a total impact of more than $2 million with matching funds, to establish a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). The grant is one of just 15 CIBER grants awarded to leading universities across the country […]

Sumit Kundu: Building new international bridges in academia and business.

Sumit Kundu: Building new international bridges in academia and business.

As a young man in his native India, Sumit Kundu faced the challenges of pursuing scholarship in a developing country, including scarce resources and slow (or no) Internet. With academics as his passion, his doctoral studies took him to the Rutgers University in U.S. and career opportunities Florida International University’s College of Business. He discovered […]

FIU Business partners with UIBE in China for academic collaboration and graduate programs.

FIU Business partners with UIBE in China for academic collaboration and graduate programs.

FIU Business has entered into an academic partnership with the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing for graduate dual-degree programs in finance and international business. The agreement lays the groundwork for a network of academic and professional alliances that will reach from Miami to one of China’s leading business schools. “This is the […]

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FIU Business shapes new strategy for International Business and Management Departments.

To foster the ongoing achievement of its internationally-recognized faculty and programs, FIU Business will reorganize the Department of Management and International Business (MIB) into two independent units, with International Business and Strategy faculty in one department and Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior faculty in the other. Dean Joanne Li announced the decision after reviewing […]

AIB-LAT conference focuses on “Multilatinas.”

As international companies are establishing more of a presence in Latin America, Latin American companies, especially family-owned and start-up enterprises, are expanding globally as well. These expanding companies, known as “multilatinas,” were the focus of the AIB-LAT (Academy of International Business-Latin American Chapter) conference held January 22-24, 2015 in Santiago, Chile. The “Internationalization of Family […]

Sumit Kundu, elected to AIB Board, outlines plans for his term in office.

Sumit Kundu, professor in the Department of Management and International Business at Florida International University (FIU), has been elected as vice president for Administration for the Executive Board of the Academy of International Business (AIB). He will serve three years. Kundu, who is also the James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business in […]