GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As the most popular form of business communications, it may come as no surprise that the average office worker receives about 121 emails per day. With up to 31,000 emails landing in an employee’s inbox per year,
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Bergstrom Real Estate Center teams up with GatorMade for career prep opportunities
In February, the Bergstrom Real Estate Center teamed up with GatorMade, an initiative focused on giving leadership opportunities to the University of Florida’s football team, to teach scholar-athletes about real estate opportunities in Miami. The weekend-long trip gave 14 scholar-athletes
Capital One to Buy Discover for $35 Billion in Year’s Biggest Deal
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his expertise on the Capital One Financial Corp. deal to buy Discover Financial Services. The $35 billion all-stock deal would create the largest US credit card company by loan volume, giving the combined entity
University of Florida Warrington College of Business launches FinTech Research Center
With $600,000 in funding, the UF Warrington College of Business is advancing research and educational opportunities in the growing field of financial technology (commonly referred to as fintech) with its newly established FinTech Research Center in Stuzin Hall. Supported by
Finance students host inaugural Florida Investment Conference
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – On February 9, the University of Florida Warrington College of Business hosted 24 universities at its inaugural Florida Investment Conference. At the event, students from each university had the opportunity to attend networking sessions and hear from
Donald Trump just got the green light to return to Wall Street
Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump began plotting his return to Wall Street. That return, delayed by years of regulatory and legal hurdles, is now on the verge of becoming a reality — and it could
McGill honored for lifetime contributions to accounting education by premier accounting organization
Gary McGill, Senior Associate Dean of the Warrington College of Business, Director of the Fisher School of Accounting and Director of the Hough Graduate School of Business was awarded the Jim Benjamin Lifetime Service Award at the February meeting of
Fisher students compete in FanTAXtic case competition
A team of sophomore students from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business took on the FanTAXtic Deloitte Case Competition in January. Vickie Lu (BSAc ’26), Sandra La Rosa (BSAc ’26), Sophia Morrissey (BSAc ’26) and Gustavo Jimenez (BSAc
Investors will say “OK Boomer” to aging Reddit
Social media platform Reddit, which helps its users “dive into anything,” may finally plunge into the public markets. Data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story from Reuters.
University of Florida management professor receives NSF CAREER Award
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Assistant Professor of Management Yixuan Li is among the latest recipients of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, the research foundation’s most prestigious award that supports early-career faculty. Li is the
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