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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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Five honored with Warrington’s teaching, advising awards

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The UF Warrington College of Business is proud to announce its five winners of its annual Teaching/Advising Awards. Dennis DiPasquale is the recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award and Larah Doyle and Allison Gatsche are the recipients

Jay Ritter

Cathie Wood’s ARK portfolio is headed for a shipwreck—and plunging tech stocks aren’t even the worst of it

Wood’s been suffering because she’s not only on the wrong side of the trend but also dangerously leveraged to the riskiest and most glamorous of the go-go stocks, from Tesla to Coinbase to Robinhood. “This is extreme loading of growth

Ted Kury

Examining the scope and scale of PG&E’s plan to bury 10,000 miles of power lines

Pacific Gas & Electric came out last week with a cost estimate for the first phase of its plan to put thousands of miles of power lines underground, ballparking it at $9 billion to $13.5 billion according to the San

Mark Jamison

After a $500-million year, will metaverse real estate skyrocket or plummet?

Metaverse real estate sales surpassed $500 million last year, and nearly half of this amount came after Mark Zuckerberg’s October 2021 rebranding of Facebook to “Meta.” This year, the metaverse real estate market has continued to boom, with sales reaching

Joel Davis

Joel Davis named Executive Director of Miller Retail Center

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dr. Joel Davis has been tapped to lead the David F. Miller Retail Center at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business. Davis first came to Warrington as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Marketing

Jay Ritter

This Is The Ultimate Donald Trump Stock: But Is DWAC A Buy Now?

Donald Trump is one of the world’s most famous businessmen, but his companies have usually been privately held. Now investors have the chance to throw their lot in with the former president of the United States through Digital World Acquisition.

Jay Ritter

Tech slump forces IPO hopefuls to consider Plan B

Unprofitable companies that listed in the United States last year were down an average of 32% from their IPO price at the end of January, according to data provided by Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter. Read more of this story

Jay Ritter

Luckin Coffee: can China’s Starbucks win back investors?

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights for this story on Luckin Coffee and how its bankruptcy after a 2020 fraud scandal fed the backlash against corporate China. Now the company wants to relist its shares in the US.  Read

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Building resiliency at work through self-compassion

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As the world begins its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, several challenges continue to hinder us from returning to a world of normalcy. From new variants to global supply chain interruptions to rising inflation, these disruptions

Jay Ritter

Startup investors cut valuations amid tech stock rout, dismal IPOs

Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about venture firms foreseeing a tougher funding environment ahead, with more muted debuts after pandemic glut.  Read more in this story from the Wall Street Journal. 

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