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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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Mark Jamison

Rural broadband remains scarce across north central Florida. Here’s what that means for people without it

Public Utility Research Center Director and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison lends his expertise to this story about the challenges in providing broadband access to rural communities – specifically, the two major issues in government spending that attempted to curb the

3 top finance textbooks share the same home – UF’s Warrington College of Business

What do some of the world’s leading finance textbooks have in common? Besides critical lessons on topics ranging from financial management to investments to real estate valuation and a majority of the market share on academic finance literature, these textbooks

Jay Ritter

2021 Is in the Record Books: A Year of Memes, Crypto, and Stock All-Time Highs

Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story recapping the 2021 markets, including the record $118 billion in gross proceeds from operating company initial public offerings.  Read more in this story from Barron’s. 

Jay Ritter

A Booming Startup Market Prompts an Investment Rush for Ever-Younger Companies

Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about how investors in 2021 pumped a record $93 billion into early-stage U.S. startups through Dec. 15, triple the amount from five years before.  Read more insights about the 2021

Jay Ritter

A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights in this story about a 1990s-era tax break, once aimed at small businesses, that has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.  Read

Jay Ritter

Blackstone gets stuck with IPO duds this year including Bumble and Oatly

It has been a record-breaking year for IPOs, but it has also been a mixed bag — and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group is among those investors who are picking through their duds. “Investors were buying IPOs on a lot

Jay Ritter

IPOs have been hot. Now investors are dumping them

“After that first day jump, on average this year IPOs have underperformed the market,” said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar. What gives? Ritter thinks the discrepancy has a lot to do with sky-high expectations on Wall Street. Read more in this

Mark Jamison

Ethics in the Age of a Technological Revolution

Public Utility Research Center and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison joins UF alumna Palveshey Tariq on the Palveshow to discuss the ethics of the technological revolution the world finds itself in.  Hear their conversation on YouTube. 

Asoo Vakharia

Untangling the knots in the supply chain

Disruptions in the supply chain have impacted consumers’ ability to get a wide range of products, from couches to milk. Asoo Vakharia, the McClatchy professor and director of the Supply Chain Management Center, explains what’s happening, what consumers can do

Heavener Hall behind the University of Florida Archway with a student walking underneath the arch.

Top 10 Warrington stories from 2021

Following a year like 2020, we had high hopes for what was to come in 2021. Even with its continued ups and downs, the year brought some reminders of why it’s great to be a Florida Gator. From top rankings

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