Explore Topics All Topics Alumni Chapman Graduate School Contributors Donor Impact Entrepreneurship Executive Education Faculty Healthcare Innovation Landon Undergraduate School More College News Rankings Research Student Success Sustainability Entrepreneurship Behind the numbers: A big year of impact for Florida SBDC at FIU and 1,400 small businesses Last year, Florida SBDC at FIU, the small business development center within the university’s College of Businesses, helped close to 1,400 small businesses with business planning, growth strategy, marketing and communications, access to capital, government contracting, and much more. More College News Business outlook for Venezuela remains high-risk despite potential political shift. Faculty Office Hours: Vibe-Coding and Agentic AI: The New Skills of the AI-for-Everything Era More College News FIU Business students raise funds to help Make-A-Wish child visit Disney World Chapman Graduate School Neuro-oncology leader and FIU Healthcare MBA graduate shines as Outstanding Graduate. More College News Business students pitch start-up ideas at Panther Tank, a “Shark Tank”-style competition. More College News Students deliver AI solutions for Miami small businesses More College News FIU helps power OpenAI Academy’s effort to bring AI skills to Main Street entrepreneurs. Miami’s small–business community took center stage as OpenAI Academy brought its inaugural nationwide Small Business AI Jam to Miami, one of only six cities selected across the country. Chapman Graduate School At sold-out REact 2025 conference, real estate leaders “navigate the unknown.” Uncertainty isn’t a warning, but an opportunity. That message defined the sold-out REact 2025 Real Estate Conference hosted by FIU Business on November 14. The event brought together more than 300 real estate executives, investors, lenders and students to analyze the forces reshaping property markets in South Florida and beyond. Faculty Walter D’Lima explores the forces transforming real estate. When the Great Recession struck in 2008, much of the blame centered on risky mortgages and the collapse of the housing market. For Walter D’Lima, then an aspiring scholar, the crisis ignited a lasting fascination with real estate markets and the forces that drive them. Research New FIU research: Some holiday gifts can backfire – leading to hurt feelings, bad reviews More College News Port authority: FIU Business students go from classrooms to container ships. Faculty Sew far, sew good: FIU students mark 10 years of global impact through Bandhwari Women’s Project. Research FIU Study Finds Moderate Product Portfolio Changes, Not Big Overhauls, Drive Industry Shifts Faculty Business professor honored for student-led project to empower women in India
