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As Haiti marks the second anniversary of its devastating earthquake, one of the most significant signs of economic recovery is a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The “2011 Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year” from telecommunications operator Digicel fostered that success. Twenty-four finalists for the award took part in an intensive executive education [...]
Lin Li (MIB ’11) had already been accepted for graduate work at Monash University in Australia when she heard about a partnership between FIU and Qingdao University, where she had earned two bachelor’s degrees. “The United States is one of the world’s most important economic centers and Miami is a [...]
Christine M. Adolf ’07 is spending a year in Kaduna, Nigeria as a volunteer, exploring how she can use her background in business to empower people living in poverty around the world. Read her blog on BizNews, the College of Business Administration’s news site.
A crowd of more than 145 students, faculty, alumni and representatives of the business community convened at FIU to hear Bernardo Hees, chief executive officer, Burger King Corporation, talk about leadership. Hees’ appearance at the College of Business Administration was part of the Herbert A. Wertheim Lecture Series. This program [...]
At the recent XXIX Interamerican Accounting Association (IAA) conference held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, FIU received the Fra Luca Bartolomeo Paccioli award. According to Eduardo Mendez (MS’ 01, BA ’96), president of the Cuban American CPAs Association and Foundation, the prestigious award is named after the 15th-century Italian mathematician, [...]
One of the hottest topics in management information systems is Health Information Exchange (HIE), the mobilization and moving of healthcare data across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. In the United States, the regulations are still being defined for this complex concept. Students and alumni from the Master [...]
Antoinette Smith, assistant professor of accounting in FIU’s College of Business Administration, has been named the Ph.D. Pipeline Opportunity Program’s Faculty Associate of the Year. This program, the brainchild of Duke University business school professor Lucy J. Reuben who obtained a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, seeks to [...]
“Employers often tell us that some of their companies’ best performers are FIU graduates,” said Dawn Lazar (MS ’06), assistant director for FIU’s Career Management Services at the School of Accounting. FIU hosted the Ahead of the Game Accounting and Business Expo on Sept. 29. More than 370 students registered [...]
Christine M. Adolf ’07 is spending a year in Kaduna, Nigeria, as a CUSO-VSO volunteer, exploring how she can use her background in business to empower people living in poverty around the world. She will be blogging about her experience on BizNews, the College of Business Administration’s news site. This [...]
According to U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges,” undergraduate international business programs at FIU’s College of Business Administration rank in the top 20 in the country. The college has achieved this ranking each year since 2005, securing a spot in the top 10 three times; in 2011, FIU Business [...]
