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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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Mo Wang

Why silly distractions at work can actually be good for you

Positive interventions that distract us from difficult tasks actually help to reduce our stress levels, according to new research co-authored by Mo Wang, Associate Dean for Research and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar.  The research, conducted by an international team of researchers,

Brian Swider, Joyce Bono, Klodiana Lanaj and Mo Wang.

The Future of Work

Where, when and how we work may never return to pre-pandemic norms. Artificial intelligence and demographic shifts will reshape our careers. And we’ll need to tend to ourselves and each other to ward off burnout and grow as workers and

Jay Ritter and Minmo Gahng

SPAC sponsors used to win at investors’ expense. Now both are losing.

A paper by Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter, Ph.D. student Minmo Gahng and alumnus Donghang Zhang informs this story about how blank-check vehicles are running out of time to close mergers, costing sponsors dearly. Given that SPACs offer no benefits

UF DBA graduates who became UF Warrington faculty

DBA program produces clinical faculty at Warrington

The Doctor of Business Administration program at Warrington has created a pipeline that brings graduates from the business world straight into the classroom to teach Warrington students. Their real-world experience translates seamlessly to the classroom, and students are able to

Jay Ritter

Tech’s reality check: How the industry lost $7.4 trillion in one year

IPOs this year slowed to a trickle after banner years in 2020 and 2021, when companies pushed through the pandemic and took advantage of an emerging world of remote work and play and an economy flush with government-backed funds.  Data

Jay Ritter

What Donald Trump’s Twitter reinstatement means for TRUTH Social

“Trump has a decision to make: Does he start to use Twitter again, or does he use Trump Media sites exclusively for getting his message out?” says Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. “Trump Media would

Tianxin Zou

Marketing professor receives prestigious research award from AMA

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tianxin Zou, John I. Williams, Jr. Assistant Professor of Marketing, is one of two winners of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Marketing Research Special Interest Group Don Lehmann Award for 2022. The Lehmann Award was established in

Jay Ritter and Minmo Gahng

SPAC sponsors that ‘piled in’ during boom may face $4 billion tab

The SPAC craze was a goldmine for sponsors like “SPAC King” Chamath Palihapitiya and Howard Lutnick. They were early to the game and benefited from a bull market that bolstered the industry with investors eager to pay large premiums for

Andy Naranjo, Blake Jackson and David Ling.

How allocators are complicit in the manipulation of PE returns

Some private equity investors get “phony happiness” from overstated and smoothed interim returns, according to new research from Ph.D. student Blake Jackson, Ken & Linda McGurn Professor David Ling and Susan M. Cameron Professor Andy Naranjo.  For example, they found

Jay Ritter

Trump media-tied SPAC still can’t get the votes, delays meeting

Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about the roadblock the SPAC taking Donald Trump’s media venture public is running into: Its own investors. Read more from Ritter in this story from Bloomberg. 

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