Opting to go public through a SPAC, VinFast has one of the largest deals ever, valuing the 6-year-old Vietnamese automaker at $23 billion. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter offers his insights into VinFast’s quest to become a public company in
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Is EdTech deployment in K-12 schools aligned to maximize educational production?
In partnership with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF), Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar is researching the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools in India. These observations and prescriptions would generalize to K-12 schools in most developing countries. In his latest report, Kumar
Incentivized online reviews inflate product ratings, sales, even when disclosed
JCPenney Eminent Scholar Jinhong Xie and Brian R. Gamache Professor Woochoel Shin‘s new research based on thousands of reviews posted on Amazon shows that when people received free products in exchange for reviews, their ratings were significantly inflated — and product
‘Startups no longer are $100 bills on the sidewalk.’ Venture capital is suffering even as the U.S. stock market is surging.
Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about how investors are becoming cynical about startups and the venture capital firms that fund them. Read more in this story from MarketWatch.
OpenAI, other firms developing AI tech not yet ready for IPOs, experts say
While the market for IPOs has been strong recently, with successes from companies like Oddity Tech and Cava, it’s mostly a game of speculation to predict which A.I. companies will be ready to go public first. However, some metrics from past
Vietnam’s richest man poised to briefly triple fortune on EV bet
Pham Nhat Vuong has the paperwork in place to take his electric-vehicle maker VinFast public through a SPAC listing with a blank-check firm. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on this deal, which would give VinFast an equity value of
University of Florida management professor’s work awarded for research method advancements
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Research methodology in the field of management is advancing thanks to new insights from University of Florida Warrington College of Business Associate Professor Aaron Hill. Hill’s paper was awarded the Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research
What will trigger the next tech IPO boom? It’s not SoftBank’s chipmaker Arm
Is the IPO dry spell in tech finally over? Not so fast, says Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter. Read Ritter’s insights in this story from Yahoo! Finance.
Trump-tied SPAC hits another snag as auditor abruptly resigns
A deal to take Donald Trump’s media company public is facing another major setback, putting into question whether it will ever get completed. “It is still a question about whether the deal will ever make it to the finish line,”
How can EdTech improve educational production in K-12 schools in developing countries?
Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar has been working with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF) for the past few years to answer this question. During this period, he visited numerous K-12 schools in Uttar Pradesh, India, and interacted with teachers and administrators on
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