Congratulations to Nathan Mechulan (MBA ‘23) on being named to Poets & Quants’ MBAs to watch for the Class of 2023. Mechulan, a student in the UF MBA program, shares more about his experience in the program, including who his
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Meet Warrington’s new faculty for 2023
The Warrington College of Business is proud to welcome five new faculty members to campus in the fall of 2023. Learn more about these outstanding new members of the Warrington team who will continue to strengthen the college’s reputation and
The art and science of finance
In this edition of our Faculty Spotlight series, Dr. Joel Houston shares his career journey to becoming a professor and faculty member at the Warrington College of Business and the valuable lessons he seeks to impart to his students. If
Instacart’s slow IPO delivery spoils the goods
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights on Instacart’s IPO. The grocery delivery company is set to submit an initial public offering prospectus to regulators as soon as next week. Read more in this story from Reuters.
In latest troubles, top UM athletics booster John Ruiz faces $67 million lawsuit
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter lends his SPAC insights to this story about LifeWallet, the health-insurance claims company founded by lawyer John H. Ruiz, a top financial booster of University of Miami athletics, which faces another legal challenge after Miami
You’re not imagining it: Here’s why Halloween stuff is out earlier each year
It’s a hot summer day. You head to the store to grab a few items; maybe groceries, maybe a few things you need for that home project. You walk through the doors into the much-needed air conditioning and then you
Integrated Framework of Educational Production
Most EdTech applications focus on improving a part of educational production. However, these applications are suboptimal because they do not leverage other entities in the educational ecosystem (such as peers and families to motivate and support students) and connected processes
Is EdTech deployment in K-12 schools aligned to maximize educational production?
In partnership with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF), Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar is researching the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools in India. These observations and prescriptions would generalize to K-12 schools in most developing countries. In his latest report, Kumar
Warrington PhD students honored with teaching awards
Ph.D. students Daniel Dong-Wook Kim (Ph.D. ‘25), Soo Yon Ryu (Ph.D. ‘25) and Xinyu Zang (Ph.D. ‘24) were awarded Warrington College of Business Ph.D. Teaching Awards for their exemplary teaching contributions across the fall 2022 and spring 2023 semesters. The
Incentivized online reviews inflate product ratings, sales, even when disclosed
JCPenney Eminent Scholar Jinhong Xie and Brian R. Gamache Professor Woochoel Shin‘s new research based on thousands of reviews posted on Amazon shows that when people received free products in exchange for reviews, their ratings were significantly inflated — and product
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