Faculty and Research
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Discover the enormous diversity and expertise of our faculty. We’ve carefully recruited more than 100 top scholars and business leaders representing 38 nationalities. All offer highly-specialized knowledge and skills – most are internationally known in their respective fields.
View our faculty’s profiles and career successes to see their extensive academic achievements, research capabilities, teaching experience and practical business savvy. Their expertise spans international business, information technology strategy, operations research, knowledge management, e-business, entrepreneurship, real estate, international banking and trade, consumer marketing, customer relationship management, global marketing and corporate responsibility.
Faculty News
Building redundancies can help businesses rebound in a global crisis
The fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic emphasized that global businesses need to be more resilient in their international production structures. Few businesses are prepared to deal with the unexpected, according to a new paper from Florida International University’s College of Business (FIU Business). Researchers found that strategies that favor redundancies in the configuration of assets across a […]
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Finance Professor’s Gift Strengthens his Commitment to Education
FIU Business professor Shahid Hamid, chair of the Department of Finance, reinforced his commitment to scholarship at FIU Business with a $45,000 gift. “I truly believe that we all have to give something back,” Hamid said at a surprise party in his honor in September 2019. The gift may be renewed in the future. A […]
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Real estate and the coronavirus: how has the landscape changed?
From construction projects to office rentals to housing, COVID-19 has delivered a hard hit to the real estate market in South Florida, according to an FIU Business Hollo School panel of real estate experts. The live presentation was held May 10, 2020 via Zoom. The road ahead is long, and the recovery will be slow. […]
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World leading information systems scholar inducted into dean’s circle of distinguished research fellows at FIU Business
Arun Rai, one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of information systems, has been inducted as a member of the Dean’s Circle of Distinguished Research Fellows at FIU Business. The Dean’s Distinguished Research Fellow initiative promotes collaboration between FIU Business faculty and students and the world’s top scholars in pursuit of relevant and […]
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Supply chains and the coronavirus: why are shelves empty? Insight from FIU Business.
As U.S. shoppers, panicked by COVID-19, have stockpiled food, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, meats and other essentials, retailers are still unable to keep enough merchandise on their shelves. The coronavirus pandemic has strained supply chains like never before. “The excessively high demand at the retail level sucked up all the inventory available in the chain […]
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Suchi Mishra, finance whiz and trailblazing professor
By Ashley Nicole Garcia, Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity Suchismita Mishra, professor of finance in the College of Business, is a trailblazer in more ways than one. Mishra has had a fondness for mathematics and statistics since childhood. Her father was an economist who worked in the state’s financial services for the Indian government […]
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Telemedicine and the coronavirus: what you need to know.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for non-traditional forms of healthcare, and telemedicine is one of the leaders. Following the steps of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), major insurers have agreed to cover a wider range of telemedicine consultations during the outbreak. Blue Cross and Blue Shield, United Health, and Anthem […]
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Two FIU Business professors elected as AIB fellows, select group of distinguished scholars
Two additional professors from FIU Business have been elected 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 notified of […]
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Telecommuting and the coronavirus: what you need to know.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a dramatic increase in the number of people working from home, driving uncertainty for both employees and employers. Today’s landscape includes more people working remotely for an indefinite amount of time, while having other worries top of mind. Not even businesses and employees who are accustomed to remote work are […]
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Coronavirus outbreak disrupts global supply chain and recovery remains distant.
The rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains, increasing the risk of a severe economic impact on international commerce as well as inventory challenges and production delays. The red flag now should be for organizations that have operations or production centers in some of the sections of China with the […]
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