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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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Entrance to Publix Food & Pharmacy, a well-known employee-owned American supermarket chain private corporation headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.

Find yourself shopping at Publix often? That’s by design.

BB&T Professor of Free Enterprise David Brown and Beth Ayers McCague Family Fellowship Associate Professor Brian Swider share insights into why Public dominates the city of Gainesville and crowds the local market. Read more in this story from the Independent

David Gaddis Ross

Research: Why Your Board Should Include a Long-Tenured Director

The presence of long-tenured independent directors on corporate boards can be an effective governance mechanism that leads to greater performance and reduced exposure to outside risks. However, there is a need for balance. Insights from R. Perry Frankland Professor David

Jay Ritter

The Wall Street Journal | IPOs Are So Passé. Here’s How Employees Are Getting Rich Now.

For years, the biggest startup founders would dream of an initial public offering. It was the key to raising capital, drumming up attention and rewarding longtime employees and early investors with a big payout. Not any more. These days, many

Jay Ritter

USA Today | 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

MarketWatch | 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

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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

The Washington Post | 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

USA Today | 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.

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