FIRST Step Program Delivers Solutions to Community Organizations
More than a dozen Miami-area community organizations
benefited in 2009 from the School of Business Administration's groundbreaking
course called FIRST
Step. Throughout the semester freshman business students work in teams on
various projects designed to help service-oriented organizations better meet
the needs of their constituents through activities such as branding, social
entrepreneurship, and business plan development.
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Women's Chamber of Commerce of Miami Dade County
Honors Business Student as Future Leader
Jackie Birnbaum, a sophomore majoring in
marketing and a participant in the School's Gateway to Excellence through
Mentorship, or GEM program, won the Women's
Chamber of Commerce of Miami Dade County Thelma Gibson Student Achiever Award
of Excellence. Each year the award, established to honor the Chamber's
founder, Thelma Gibson, recognizes an individual and a corporation that has
excelled in promoting leadership, excellence and business development among corporate
and professional women. The student achiever award was added this year to
recognize future women leaders and three UM School of Business students were nominated.
Nominees, Natalia Hoyos, a senior majoring in accounting and minoring in
finance, and Melissa Butler, a sophomore, are also GEM participants. The award was presented on January 21.
Read More: GEM Students Attend Book Signing with Madeline Albright
Read More: GEM Kicks Off with "First Impressions"
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UM Team Shines in
Mock Trial Competition at UCLA
A University of Miami mock trial team, including a student
from the School of Business, advanced to the first place match at a competition
this month at the University of Southern California. The UM team won in the
first three rounds against UCLA, UC-Irvine and Fresno State. The UM team faced
off against the University of California, Berkeley in the first place match,
but lost in a very close round decided by only a few points. The UCLA
Invitational started with 40 teams across the U.S. Two students on the UM team,
Nicole Chessin, a business major, and Zach Gonzalez in Arts and Sciences, were
recognized as outstanding individuals in the competition.
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Business
Students Win Target Case Study Competition
Four senior business students shared a $4,000 scholarship
prize ($1,000 per student), for their project, "Recycling Your Plastic
Through Target," in a case study competition. Lindsay English, Elan
Foxman, Kiara Frey, and Timo Stern followed guidelines provided by Target and,
working in teams, prepared a written and oral presentation of the project they
devised. The award was presented by Victor Rota, a Target representative,
on December 2.
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Financial Times Blog Features UM MBA Student
A student who joined the School's full-time MBA program this
month is writing a blog about the program for the Financial Times. Alex
Ferrari is among 12 MBA bloggers from top business schools around the world who
are blogging about their MBA student experiences. You can follow his blog here.
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Exclusive Video Interviews with Featured Business Leaders
The Fall 2009 issue of BusinessMiami magazine features a new design and a number of online features including video
interviews with some of the business leaders featured in the magazine. Miguel
"Mike" Fernandez, the successful health care entrepreneur and
chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, speaks about his career and overcoming bankruptcy,
the importance of giving back and higher education. Sanford Ziff, the founder of
Sunglass Hut, talks about his career, entrepreneurship and what motivated him
to give to the School of Business. These interviews and other multimedia content can be accessed at www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami.
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Faculty Members Honored
Michael Tsiros, department chair and associate professor
of marketing received the 2010 Davidson Award for the Best Article in
the Journal of Retailing 2008 (Volume 84) for an article co-authored with Anne L.
Roggeveen and Dhruv Grewal entitled, "The
Effect of Compensation on Repurchase Intentions in Service Recovery."
 Manuel Santos, professor and holder of the James L.
Knight Chair, and chair of the economics department, has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric
Society. With a worldwide membership, the Econometric Society is the most
prestigious society in its field. Over the past decade, only about 15
individuals per year worldwide have been elected as fellows. Econometric
Society fellows must have published original contributions to economic theory
or to statistical, mathematical, or accounting analyses that pertain to
problems in economic theory. The society publishes the journal Econometrica,
the field's premier journal.
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 Entrepreneurship Practicum with Entrepreneur-in-Residence Eric Kriss
During the Spring 2010 semester, Entrepreneur in Residence Eric Kriss
will offer a weekly practicum on different aspects of starting a new
venture. In these sessions, Eric will offer insights from his extensive
entrepreneurial career on basic topics that every entrepreneur has to
address. The practicum is an excellent supplement to the SBA
entrepreneurship curriculum, as well as an invaluable resource for
anyone considering a startup venture. Best of all, it is free and open
to the public. There are eight practicum sessions planned. Visit the site for more details. February dates:
- Creating Your Identity - February 5
- Forming the Entity - February 12
- Structuring Ownership - February 19
- Building a Web Presence - February 26
Time: Fridays at 12:00 p.m.
Location: AGB 331 at the School of Business
(Exceptions: the 2/12 and 2/19 sessions will be held in the School of
Business Faculty Lounge, ground floor of the School of Business)
Questions?: Contact Ken Colwell 305-284-8588
Special Alumni Event featuring Professor W. Earl Sasser, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard
Business School
Thursday, February 18, 2010
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.:
Reception
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Discussion
University of Miami
School of Business, James W. McLamore
Executive Education Dining Room, 3rd Floor
You must register for this event no later than Monday,
February 15, 2010 via the following link:
http://www.hbssouthflorida.org/store.html?show_item=1154
Want to
learn everything you need to know to be prepared for an interview?
Take
advantage of this lunch session program with our EMBA alum Jill Weitz, Human
Resources Executive. As a former VP of HR for Beam Global Spirits & Wine Inc and Sara Lee
Corporation, Weitz has a tremendous amount of experience and tips to share with
you. Come and learn what recruiters look for and how to make sure you ace
your interview.
When: February 1, 2010
Where: Executive Dining
Room McLamore Building, 3rd Floor
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Dress: Casual
Category: Y BUS-604
Lunch
will be provided
Mentor Roundtable - Law
Wednesday, February 17,
2010
6:00 p.m.
McLamore Executive Education Center, 3rd Floor
Mentor Roundtable - Entrepreneurship & Management
Wednesday, March 3,
2010
6:00 p.m.
McLamore Executive Education Center, 3rd Floor
Center for Nonprofit Management Workshop
BRANDING & DIFFERENTIATION
How to Communicate Your Organization's Unique Role
Guest Speakers:
Bruce Turkel, CEO & Creative Director, TURKEL
Barbara E. Kahn, Dean, School of Business Administration
Thursday, February 11, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Registration Fee: $25.00 per workshop
(Scholarships are available), Phone: 305 284-6673, e-mail:
nonprofit.eec@miami.edu
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, February 19, 2010
- Friday, March 19, 2010
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Florida Trend - Feb. 1, 2010 - Eric Kriss, an
entrepreneur-in-residence at the School, was among two "Trendsetters"
profiled in the monthly magazine. The article outlined Kriss's work
with entrepreneurship students at the School. Article
The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 25, 2010 - The newspaper's Business Insight special report included an article authored by Robert Plant,
an associate professor of management, who detailed a model that aims to
help companies decide which green initiatives to pursue and which to
avoid by placing them in one of four categories. Article
South Florida Business Journal - Jan. 22, 2010 -
An article about an attempt by Florida banking regulators to shut down
the Miami international banking operations of a Venezuelan bank
included insight from Andrea Heuson, a professor of finance. Article
The New York Times - Jan. 21, 2010 -
The newspaper's Room for Debate blog published commentary about a
Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on corporate campaign
spending from Christopher Cotton, an assistant
professor of economics. "Campaign spending has less of an impact on
election outcomes than most people think," wrote Cotton. Blog
Nightly Business Report (PBS) - Jan. 11, 2010 -
In a segment on decisions by investors based on the past performance of
a stock or mutual fund, Joseph Johnson, associate professor of
marketing, explained that although investors are warned that past
performance is no indication of future returns, the advice is widely
ignored. Transcript / Video (@20:00)
Dow Jones News Service - Jan. 7, 2010 - Michael Tsiros,
chairman and associate professor of marketing, offered insight about
online versus brick-and-mortar holiday retail sales, saying that
retailers heavily promoted their Web sites to show their presence in a
move that "may actually have cost them more than the sales they
received." The article was published by CNNMoney.com, FOX Business News online, and NASDAQ online, among other media.
The New York Times - December 28, 2009 - Terri Scandura,
professor of management and the academic director of the Leadership
Institute, offered suggestions for finding a good career mentor. "Tell
someone that you really admire his ability to develop strategic plans,
and most will be so flattered they will say yes,'' Scandura said.
FOX Business Network - December 24, 2009 - In a live interview, Steven Ullmann,
director of the School's health sector management and policy programs,
provided insight on the health care reform bill passed by the U.S.
Senate earlier in the day.
Nightly Business Report (PBS) - December 22, 2009 - Dean Barbara Kahn,
appearing as a guest commentator on the national business program,
explained how consumer confidence and spending can be influenced by the
way in which economic and other information is "framed" in the
marketplace. Transcript
The Wall Street Journal - December 22, 2009 - An
article about the growing number of young people turning to
entrepreneurship in the tough job economy prominently featured one of
the School's alumni, Andrew Levine (MBA '08 and BBA '06), and his start-up audimated.com, an online social-networking site for musicians and their followers. Read Article
WLRN-Radio (NPR) - December 4, 2009 - The "Friday Business Report" featured an interview with Shweta Oza,
assistant professor of marketing, who discussed how the troubled
economy has opened up new opportunities for consumers to negotiate
deals with retailers. Listen
WLRN-Radio (NPR) - December 4, 2009 - A report on the troubled newspaper industry included insight from Arun Sharma,
a professor of marketing, who said he believes the current business
model, where newspapers distribute news for free on the Internet, does
not work.
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