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New Master of Accounting program prepares for the rise of analytics.
Accounting is transforming, and no one knows that better than the firms that court FIU College of Business graduates. They want new employees to understand big data and how to use it. FIU is on the front lines of helping firms meet that challenge. Beginning in fall, the School of Accounting will offer a Master […]
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Professor Curba Lampert on technology and strategy.
How do firms respond to technological change? How do firms manage the ever-increasing costs of research and development (R&D)? How do firms capture the value they create from their innovative activities? How do firms respond technologically to oil shocks? These are just some of the important research questions that Curba Morris Lampert, assistant professor in […]
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Online entrepreneurs win all three places in The Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge FIU Track.
After winning both the FIU track and the People’s Pick of The Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge, the folks behind Redify said they are ready to put their product on the market. “We are now moving to where investors will become interested in what we are doing,” said Victor Okoh, (PhD ’11, Public Health) CEO […]
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A conversation with… FIU College of Business alum Frank Gonzalez, managing principal at accounting firm Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra (MBAF)
FIU Business alumnus Frank Gonzalez (BAcc ’90) was planning to study law when an accounting class at FIU captured his attention. The rest is history. Today Gonzalez leads accounting firm MBAF’s audit department across all offices as well as the firm’s financial institutions and SEC practices. MBAF is South Florida’s largest accounting firm by billings, […]
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FIU real estate panelists examine the boom in South Florida’s industrial properties marketplace.
South Florida’s strategic location as the gateway to Latin America, the Port of Miami’s increasing influence in international trade and a fast growing e-commerce marketplace are driving growth for the industrial real estate sector. Industry experts that participated in the bi-annual Real Estate Speaker Series presented May 15, 2018 by FIU’s Hollo School of Real […]
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Professor Jerry Haar: insights on globalization from a Latin America lens.
Growing up in Baltimore, Jerry Haar’s parents did something unusual for the time: they took the future FIU professor on extensive trips to Latin America and the Caribbean. (He has relatives in Argentina and Brazil.) It helped spark in Haar, interim director of Executive and Professional Education and a clinical professor in the College of […]
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FIU MBA program ranked No. 29 U.S. MBA program for Latin Americans.
The International MBA program at FIU Business is ranked as the No. 29 U.S. MBA program for Latin Americans in the just-released 2018 MBA rankings from AméricaEconomía. The leading Latin American business magazine also places the FIU MBA program among the Top 50 programs in the world. College achieves top online MBA program rankings. The […]
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FIU Business Healthcare MBA team captures third consecutive victory at South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum competition.
For the third consecutive year, FIU College of Business’ Healthcare MBA team captured first place in the SFHEF Annual Leadership Case Competition. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum, the regional chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Congratulations to team members Marria Janjua, Zailyn Rodriguez and Jesus Diaz, […]
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FIU Business health informatics program achieves a “first” in accreditation.
Florida International University’s Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics (MSHIA) program has earned the prestigious Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) accreditation, becoming the nation’s only health informatics program housed in a business school to earn the commission’s seal of approval. “CAHIIM is the gold standard for academic […]
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Study reveals small businesses’ strength in Miami-Dade County’s economy.
More than 82,000 small businesses employ 53.3 percent of Miami-Dade County’s workforce, according to a new study commissioned by the Florida SBDC at FIU. This stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the U.S., where large companies employ the majority of workers. Produced by the FIU Metropolitan Center, Small Business. Big Impact: Report on […]
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