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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

‘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. 

Jay Ritter

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

Jay Ritter

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

Aaron Hill

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

Jay Ritter

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. 

Jay Ritter

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,”

Anuj Kumar

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

Mark Jamison

The problems at the FTC go beyond losing merger battles

Public Utility Research Center Director and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison shares his insights on the troubling state of the FTC, which raises valid concerns about the direction of antitrust enforcement and the agency’s declining respect for free markets and individual

Megan Mocko

Continuing a global impact through virtual exchange

I teach QMB 3250, Statistics for Business Decisions. In this course, we talk about ANOVA and regression, but students also get an opportunity to participate in a virtual exchange. A virtual exchange (VE) is when two instructors from different institutions

John Banko

2023’s Best & Worst Cities for First-Time Home Buyers

Wells Fargo Faculty Fellow, Instructional Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Wealth Management Program John Banko shares his expert insights into popular questions related to buying a home for the first time.  See what Banko advises on choosing

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