 Pop Artist Romero Britto Joins School's New Entrepreneurship Advisory Board
Internationally renowned pop artist and entrepreneur Romero Britto has
joined the School's newly formed Entrepreneurship Program Advisory
Board.
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 Leading Entrepreneurs Share Insight During Global Entrepreneurship Week
The School of Business Administration joined
organizations around the world November 16 to November 20 in participating in
Global Entrepreneurship Week, a range of activities designed to inform, mentor
and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs. The School, along with along
with other schools and colleges at the University of Miami, hosted a number of
events ranging from a presentation by pop artist Romero Britto who addressed
issues specific to artists as entrepreneurs to a talk by Florida state Senator
and former Yahoo! Executive Jeremy Ring, who discussed how to grow a global
business.
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Leonard Abess Shares Thoughts on Leadership During Cobb Leadership Lecture Series
Leonard Abess, CEO of City National Bank of Florida, spoke to
alumni, students, professors and members of the South Florida community as part
of the Cobb Leadership Lecture Series on Nov. 18.
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School Hosts Author of Too Big to Fail
 Students, alumni and
other members of the School community had the opportunity this month to
hear from and meet the author of a book that has gotten a lot of
attention on Wall Street and around the country in recent weeks.
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Executive-in-Residence Program Brings Leading Television Executive Back to School
School of
Business students had the opportunity in November to hear about the future of
the media, the influence of technology on the industry, and the impact of the
economic recession from one of the industry's top leaders. Former CBS executive
vice president and chief financial officer Fred Reynolds (BBA '72) hosted a
question and answer session at the School as part of its Executive-in-Residence
Program.
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Check Out the Redesigned BusinessMiami!
Be sure to check your mailbox next week for the fall 2009
issue of BusinessMiami. The School's alumni magazine has been redesigned
and you'll find even more practical business insight that will help you every
day in your professional life. This issue takes a look at entrepreneurship in
today's uncertain economy and introduces you to students and alumni who are
developing some of the most promising new business ventures. We have also
introduced a number of online features to complement what you see in the
magazine. These include a Web poll, along with multimedia content including
videos, photo slideshows and other Web exclusives, which can be accessed at www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami.
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EditorMegan Tice
Director of CommunicationsJeff Heebner
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Faculty Member Receives Top Honors
A.
Parasuraman, professor, holder of the James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing
and vice dean of faculty has received the 2009 Elsevier
Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award, a lifetime award for exceptional
scholarly accomplishments. The award was presented on Nov. 5 by the Society for
Marketing Advances at its annual conference in New Orleans. Parasurman delivered a
plenary talk titled "My Academic Career: A Self-Reflection and Some
Suggestions" at the award session.
Parasurman also delivered a plenary talk at the Academy of
Marketing Science's World Marketing Congress in Oslo, Norway in July. The title
of the talk was "Intertwining of Service Quality, Value and Productivity:
Managerial Implications and Research Imperatives" in which he argued that the
critical link between the perspective of the service firm and the perspective
of the service customer is service quality.
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Emery Moves to Board of Trustees of Prestigious Finance Association after Tenure as President
Doug Emery, chair
and professor of finance, has stepped down as president of the Financial
Management Association International (FMA), a position that capped several
years in which he has served in leadership positions with the prestigious
finance organization. He will continue to work with the organization as a member of the FMA's Board of Trustees.
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The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Resources
On Oct. 30, Ezekiel Emanuel, President Barack Obama's special health care advisor and a leading bioethicist visited the
School of Business to deliver the Adrienne Arsht
Distinguished Speaker Series in Ethics lecture. With UM President Donna
E. Shalala and other top UM administrators in attendance, Emanuel presented a talk titled "Who Should Get the
Liver for Transplantation? The Ethics of Allocating Scarce Resources."
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 Hundreds Turn out for School's First Hurricane Invitational Mock Trial Competition
Nearly 350 competitors, coaches, spectators and volunteer
attorneys descended on the School of Business Oct. 31
and Nov. 1 to participate in the first Hurricane Invitational mock trial
competition. The event was organized by
Don Donelson, business law lecturer and team advisor, who is also on the board
of directors of the American Mock Trial Association.
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Business Student Becomes One of Miami's Youngest Elected Officials
School of
Business student Stephen Murray was recently elected as one of the nine members
of the Coconut Grove Village Council at elections held on Nov. 3, 2009. Murray,
a junior political science major and management department teaching assistant,
is the youngest person to ever serve on the council and one of the youngest
elected officials in Miami's history.
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Homecoming Brings School's Alumni Back to Campus
Thousands of alumni including many graduates of the School
of Business returned to the "U" to join current students, faculty, and
community members to celebrate the University of Miami's Alumni Weekend and Homecoming
2009 festivities, Friday and Saturday, November 6-7.
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Alumni Gathering at Burger King Headquarters
Dean Barbara E. Kahn and President Donna E. Shalala visited
Burger King Headquarters where a group of over 50 UM alumni, many from the
School of Business, gathered for a networking event on November 16. Alumni had the opportunity to hear from
CEO John Chidsey who spoke about the partnership between Burger King and UM.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Coral
Gables Campus
- featuring
William Werther, professor of management, on "What Makes Executives Different from
Managers"
NETWORK AND LEARN SERIES
"What Makes Executives Different from
Managers"
William Werther,
Professor of Management
Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00 p.m.
MCLAMORE
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CENTER, THIRD FLOOR
Please RSVP by
December 7, 2009. Call 305-284-2510 or e-mail lcrew@miami.edu to RSVP.
Don't forget to say
that you are already a 'Cane!
Full-time MBA and One-Year MBA Campus Visits
Location: Coral Gables Campus,
Business Complex, GB 431
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Friday, January 15, 2010
- Friday, February 19, 2010
- Friday, March 19, 2010
JD/MBA-Information Sessions
Location: Coral Gables Campus,
Business Complex, Storer Auditorium
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday,
January 20, 2010
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South Florida Business Journal - November 18, 2009 -
An article reported that pop artist Romero Britto has joined the
School's new Entrepreneurship Program Advisory and included a quote
from Dean Barbara Kahn who noted that "Not only is
Romero a great artist, he has built a phenomenally successful business
with an international reputation and our students and program will
benefit greatly from his expertise." Read Article
The Miami Herald - November 16, 2009 - Rodolfo Saccoman
(MBA '07) who was the runner-up and winner of $4,000 in the
High-Potential Venture category in the School's 2008 Business Plan
Competition, and Brian Rechtman (MBA '09), who first
place and $6,000 in the 2009 competition, were prominently in a
front-page article about Global Entrepreneurship Week on the UM campus,
in which they both participated. Read Article
The Miami Herald - November 11, 2009 - Dean Barbara Kahn
was prominently featured in a profile piece published on the front page
of the business section. The profile outlined Kahn's strategy for
bringing international recognition to the School and noted a number of
significant accomplishments during her tenure including UM's first
Global Business Forum held in January 2009. Read Article
PODER - November 2009 - The magazine
published an article authored by Dean Barbara Kahn, who wrote that firms
are losing the trust of consumers so they must find ways to earn that
trust back if they are to be successful. Read Article
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