Conrado benitez institute of business education
Institute of business administration!
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Dr. Francisco “Kiko” Benitez, is PWU’s ninth president and only the second man to head the nearly one-hundred-year-old institution (the first was his father, the late Dr.
Jose Conrado Benitez, better known as “Joly” – who was one of the Marcos era’s technocrats responsible for housing and human settlements).
Conrado benitez institute of business education
Dr. Kiko is the fourth generation of his family to serve PWU. He returned to the Philippines in 2011 after years of teaching in U.S. universities. This quiet, unassuming academic found himself in the midst of what will undoubtedly be remembered as some of the most turbulent years in PWU’s history.
He found himself embroiled in a short-lived partnership with STI (the IT behemoth owned by businessman EusebioTanco) which was originally envisioned as a joint venture that would pour much-needed capital into the school. The union proved to be a mismatch.
STI’s development plans for prime property occupied by JASMS in Quezon City created a situation that exploded into a