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On March 7, 2008, Biodiversity & Company, co-founded by Erica Courtney (EMBA ’07), took first place from the Foundation for a Sustainable Future (a worldwide contest searching for sustainable business plans that can make an impact) and took second place in the William James Foundation’s (WJF) Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition, netting more than $50K in in-kind prizes. More than 370 entrants from fifty top universities in ten countries worldwide started the competition. Biodiversity & Company incorporates multi-faceted, nature-based business concepts centered on working with the Chachi tribe in Ecuador to promote ecotourism, sales of carbon credits, and sales of non-timber forest products. The monies generated help support research and the renewal of that country’s Chocó rainforest. Previously, the company won the top prize in the 2007 New Venture Challenge competitive rounds in the graduate/alumni competition, hosted by the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center; and Echoing Green, an organization committed to helping social entrepreneurs achieve their maximum potential through a range of support services named the company a 2008 fellowship finalist. |
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The college’s Beta Alpha Psi Eta Iota Chapter was recognized at the national Beta Alpha Psi conference with the designation “superior chapter”—the highest honor available—based on the number of community events it organized and professional development opportunities it offered as well as on the involvement of its members. The conference took place in Chicago, Illinois in August, 2007. Read more. |
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An international business major was chosen to participate in the Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP), a one-week management training program for college seniors designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. It was the second time one of our students participated. Read more. |
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A graduate student won the first-ever Latin Trade MBA Challenge, netting a full-tuition scholarship for the International MBA (IMBA) program in the college’s Chapman Graduate School of Business. Read more. |
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A BBA+ Weekend student captured a scholarship from Denny’s Scholarship Program in the Hispanic College Fund. Read more. |
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From Monster.com to the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting’s (ALPFA), an accounting undergraduate student took advantage of opportunities to develop leadership skills. Read more. |
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Seven students from the college were among the 88 students from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico to participate in the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA) Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop. During the event, they formed ad hoc teams to develop presentations on financial literacy, learned networking techniques, and got valuable insights from academics and practitioners. Read more. |
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KPMG chose a sophomore accounting major with a 3.6 GPA, for their new Future Diversity Leaders program. The award can translate into $6,000 in scholarships, an internship with the firm, and possible full-time employment upon completion of her degree. Read more. |
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Two students participated in the newly launched local version of the national Grant Thornton (GT) Footsteps program. Held at the GT Miami office, the event included a tour, presentations on the service lines and career options, lectures from company principals, and teambuilding activities, along with a Marlins game. Read more. |
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An accounting student and former president of FIU Accounting Association (FIU-AA) received two awards at the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting’s (ALPFA) annual convention: “South Region Student of the Year” and “ALPFA National Student of the Year.” Read more. |
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A six-person team of FIU Accounting Association (FIU-AA) members was among the winners at the regional level of a KPMG/ALPFA case competition held during the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting’s (ALPFA) annual convention. Read more. |
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A five-person team of Chapman Graduate School students won the Intercollegiate Case Competition hosted by the University of South Florida. Subsequently, “Team FIU,” consisting of four of the team members—all students in the Professional MBA (PMBA) program—was selected as one of the six finalists for the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) Dell/Microsoft case competition, which took place at the NSHMBA National Conference in October, 2007. The team was one of 44 teams nationwide who competed. Read more. |
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Students in the Business in Society class, part of their BBA+ Weekend program, undertook extensive research into the issue of how Florida compares to other states, and to other parts of the world, with respect to its services to the families of autistic children. The 23 students broke into four teams—interviews, statistics, domestic laws, and foreign laws and statistics, from whose work they derived a forty-page report that included narratives about the difficulties faced by families, along with charts and tables that distill the wide range of information they assembled. They delivered a proposal—which outlines better insurance coverage and bills for autism awareness—to members of the Florida legislature. Read more. |
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Recent graduates of the Chapman School have started businesses in such diverse areas as gems and high-end jewelry, strategic global marketing consulting, construction and real estate investment, entertainment, fashion, currency exchange and travel—to name just a few. |
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