The FSU Alumni Association celebrated honorees and their businesses during a Saturday dinner ceremony at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship continued to serve as presenting sponsor.

The FSU Real Estate Investment Fund, or REIF , stands among only a few funds of its kind and size, with a balance of about $2.35 million only in real estate investment trusts, or REITs, and teams of graduate students managing its holdings.

Lisa Blair Davis (BS Finance ’94), a college Board of Governors member and the global head of human resources for MedTech at Johnson & Johnson, served as keynote speaker during the 2024 Summit for the Advancement of Women in Business in the college’s Starry Conference Room. 

Michael Hartline, dean of the college, initiated the move to help the college boost donations for discretionary funds that support various programs and initiatives, plus essential needs such as funding of scholarships, research, recruitment and travel. 

The Florida State University College of Business edged up to No. 14 among public schools that offer specialty master’s programs online and took a giant leap to the No. 15 spot among public online MBA programs on U.S. News & World Report’s latest 2024 lists of best programs released today.

Florida Blue CEO Pat Geraghty served as keynote speaker of the inaugural Florida State University Business of Healthcare Summit.

The latest Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings for authors and institutions show FSU’s real estate faculty tied at No. 2 with National University of Singapore. Among authors, FSU’s Tingyu Zhou ties for the No. 4 ranking, while fellow faculty member Chongyu Wang ties for 10th in the world.

A pioneering study from researcher Matthew Baucum, published in Management Science, demonstrates that, when paired with data-driven reinforcement learning, wearable sensor data yields insights that could help physicians better treat their patients.

Researcher Colleen Harmeling declares in a video circulated by the American Marketing Association that our spending decisions “signal to ourselves and others our own moral self-understanding.” She adds in the video – “The Role of Consumer Morality in Driving Inclusive Growth” – that this concept has gone largely overlooked in marketing research.

So you love your job and want to take on another massive project?

Consider Professor Wayne Hochwarter’s recent findings published in Career Development International. Even those passionate about their jobs are destined for burnout, his study says, unless they have elevated ego resilience, which enables a worker to pause, reflect and adjust.