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Read the latest news and research from University of Florida Warrington College of Business faculty, who are thought leaders in their respective fields and provide expert guidance in the classroom. Their research provides industry leaders and individuals with insights they can use in their careers and daily lives.

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Jay Ritter

This anti-‘woke’ investor is wooing Trump voters. His first target: Starbucks

At President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Thursday, James Fishback, CEO and co-founder of Azoria Partners, unveiled a new anti-“woke” investment fund, the Azoria 500 Meritocracy ETF, that will mirror the S&P 500 index except in one respect: It will not include

Jay Ritter

Pony AI’s Nasdaq debut signals possible thaw in U.S. stock-market listings by Chinese companies

Autonomous-driving company Pony AI Inc.’s newly issued stock fell nearly 8% below its offering price of $13 a share Wednesday as the biggest initial public offering in months for a Chinese company began trading. The Pony AI offering potentially sets

Row of graduates smiling with the Warrington College of Business logo

Scrolling through memory lane: A year in review at UF Warrington

Heavener students rang in the new year by winning back-to-back case competitions in Mexico and Canada, representing Warrington ahead of 25+ international competitors. In February, the Gators football team traveled to Miami to investigate career opportunities with the Bergstrom Real

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Swings in Building Permits Can Help Predict Financial Downturns‌

For a new study, Assistant Professor Gustavo Cortes and Yale School of Management’s Cameron LaPoint painstakingly assembled a dataset tracking local building permits over the last century. Again and again, they found, peaks in the issuing of permits preceded periods

Mark Jamison

Mark Jamison | The Case for a Smarter Antitrust Policy

By restoring clarity and rigor to antitrust enforcement, the incoming administration can protect competition without punishing success, argues Mark Jamison, Gunter Professor and Public Utility Research Center Director.  Read Jamison’s full op-ed in The National Review. 

Jay Ritter

Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite.

Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story

Jay Ritter

Trump’s social media company in talks to buy crypto firm Bakkt, FT reports

Donald Trump’s social media company ended the trading day up Monday on reports it’s looking to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt. Shares of Bakkt, backed by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange, skyrocketed more than 160% and were halted multiple times due to volatility.

Trevor Foulk does the Gator chomp with GUS sculpture.

Underwater academic

Most academics start their careers inside the classroom. Associate Professor Trevor Foulk started his in the ocean. The new faculty member and alumnus of the University of Florida Warrington College of Business was making waves in his career as a

Mike Carrillo display cover of his textbook, B2B Marketing.

Marketing to businesses has never been clearer

Thanks to Clinical Assistant Professor Michael Carrillo, a new textbook is benefitting the University of Florida Warrington College of Business’s business-to-business (B2B) marketing course. Carrillo’s digital textbook, B2B Marketing: Strategic Foundations and Global Applications, hit the internet earlier this year,

Jay Ritter

The IPO window could reopen after 2 brutal years amid Trump trade ‘exuberance’

Investors have been waiting for the US IPO market to thaw after two challenging years. Donald Trump’s election win may help do just that. Since Trump’s victory last week, the stocks of investment banking leaders including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,

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