Joshua Green (BSBA ’02) hosted a pizza party on the premiere of Shark Tank’s latest season. Green, with his best friend and business partner, Kevin Klein, offered slices of pizza to the “Sharks,” potential investors like Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran,
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IPO market: Companies not finding interest they hoped for, analyst says
Recent IPO debuts from companies such as Instacart (CART), Arm Holdings (ARM), and Birkenstock (BIRK), have not delivered the performance many investors hoped for. University of Florida Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter joined Yahoo! Finance Live to discuss the IPO
Do financial incentives drive the voting behaviour of ESG funds?
In a new paper, Bank of America Assistant Professor of Finance Tao Li studies whether ESG funds trade the long-term sustainability of portfolio companies for greater short-term financial performance, focusing on how these funds vote on ESG proposals at shareholder
The stock market is building up to a major ‘buy’ signal
Research insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about how high interest rates aren’t going to keep stocks low much longer. Read the full story from MarketWatch.
Courage before confidence
When you face opportunity, what do you do? Ellen Connelly Taaffe (BSBA ’83), University of Florida alumna and Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Women’s Leadership Programming at the Kellogg School of Management, describes the mirrored door as a place
On the fast track
Kevin Boone (BSAc ’00) recalls getting his first glimpse into the world of finance while reading stock quotes in the newspaper with his grandfather. As time and technology progressed, he opened his first account during the early days of online
The value and benefits of professional development programming during your MBA
Whether leaving full-time employment to immerse yourself in the University of Florida Full-Time on-campus MBA program, or continuing to work while pursuing your MBA in a Professional program, there is added value to your experience in professional development programming that
Bill Ackman Wants to Take Elon Musk’s X Public. History Says It’s a Risky Move.
Bill Ackman, the hedge fund manager and activist investor, told The Wall Street Journal that he would be interested in a deal with Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, to take part of the social media company public via his special
Speaking with intention
In this feature of our Faculty Spotlight series, Dr. Brian Ray shares a key takeaway for students in his business ethics courses: speaking with intention. For Colonel Dr. Brian Ray, Director of the Poe Business Ethics Center, speaking with intention
Connecting with people to create the future
Gainesville, Fla., is home to numerous innovative and imaginative entrepreneurs, and no one is more aware of this than Quang Tran (CpE ‘04, MSM ‘06). In 2013, Tran co-founded Starter Space with his wife, Payal. Starter Space serves as Gainesville’s
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