Enjoying your job stems from more than just the work you do. Anyone who’s experienced having a great coworker or having a not-so-great coworker can attest to how critical it is to have positive relationships with the people you spend
Stories by Allison
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Rural broadband remains scarce across north central Florida. Here’s what that means for people without it
Public Utility Research Center Director and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison lends his expertise to this story about the challenges in providing broadband access to rural communities – specifically, the two major issues in government spending that attempted to curb the
3 top finance textbooks share the same home – UF’s Warrington College of Business
What do some of the world’s leading finance textbooks have in common? Besides critical lessons on topics ranging from financial management to investments to real estate valuation and a majority of the market share on academic finance literature, these textbooks
2021 Is in the Record Books: A Year of Memes, Crypto, and Stock All-Time Highs
Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story recapping the 2021 markets, including the record $118 billion in gross proceeds from operating company initial public offerings. Read more in this story from Barron’s.
A Booming Startup Market Prompts an Investment Rush for Ever-Younger Companies
Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about how investors in 2021 pumped a record $93 billion into early-stage U.S. startups through Dec. 15, triple the amount from five years before. Read more insights about the 2021
A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights in this story about a 1990s-era tax break, once aimed at small businesses, that has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits. Read
Blackstone gets stuck with IPO duds this year including Bumble and Oatly
It has been a record-breaking year for IPOs, but it has also been a mixed bag — and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group is among those investors who are picking through their duds. “Investors were buying IPOs on a lot
IPOs have been hot. Now investors are dumping them
“After that first day jump, on average this year IPOs have underperformed the market,” said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar. What gives? Ritter thinks the discrepancy has a lot to do with sky-high expectations on Wall Street. Read more in this
Ethics in the Age of a Technological Revolution
Public Utility Research Center and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison joins UF alumna Palveshey Tariq on the Palveshow to discuss the ethics of the technological revolution the world finds itself in. Hear their conversation on YouTube.
Untangling the knots in the supply chain
Disruptions in the supply chain have impacted consumers’ ability to get a wide range of products, from couches to milk. Asoo Vakharia, the McClatchy professor and director of the Supply Chain Management Center, explains what’s happening, what consumers can do
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