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Warrington Top Scientists 2023

Warrington faculty listed among top scientists in the world

Numerous Warrington faculty have ranked among the top 2% of most influential scientists in the world, according to a recent study by researchers at Stanford University.  The study includes eight Warrington faculty who made the career list, based on their

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Why you’re still getting irrelevant ads, according to research

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Imagine you’re in search of a new car. You’ve seen a Subaru model that interests you, so you decide to look it up online for more details. After some brief research, you quickly decide the Subaru isn’t

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Knot your typical business course

Ocala National Forest isn’t a typical classroom setting for the University of Florida Warrington College of Business. Ready for a new adventure, 17 MBA students met on a campground to spend their spring break learning leadership and wilderness survival skills.

The 14 tenure-track faculty members of Warrington's Department of Management. From left: Joyce Bono, John Chen, Larry DiMatteo, Robert Emerson, Amir Erez, Aaron Hill, Yixuan Li, Klodiana Lanaj, Gwen Lee, David Gaddis Ross, Brian Swider, Robert Thomas, Mo Wang and Nan Zhang.

UF Warrington management department No. 1 in productivity per faculty again

The 14 tenure-track faculty members of the Department of Management at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business are the most prolific group of research producers per faculty on the Texas A&M/University of Georgia Rankings of Management Department Research

Michael Mayberry and Scott Rane

Executive compensation incentives influence firms’ conforming tax avoidance, research finds

The line between tax avoidance and tax evasion is often very thin. “What we’re showing is that one unintended consequence of executives’ compensation contract design is lower profits, and this leads to lower taxes paid. But if you’re a shareholder

Mo Wang

Speaking of Psychology: What does modern retirement look like? With Mo Wang

Forget the stereotype of a goodbye party in the break room followed by endless days on the golf course. Today, workers are staying on the job longer and taking on more “bridge employment,” or post-retirement jobs. Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo

Alejandro Lopez-Lira

Win the Race for Higher Risk-adjusted Stock Returns

A new paper co-authored by Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Wharton’s Nikolai Roussanov uses machine learning to construct investment portfolios that ensure predictability of returns in a world of changing risks. Read more in this story from Knowledge at Wharton. 

Jay Ritter

The market has changed, but super-voting shares are here to stay, says Mr. IPO

TechCrunch spoke with Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter about why stakeholders aren’t likely to push too hard against super-voting shares, despite that now would seem the time to do it.  TechCrunch: So the bottom line, in your view, is that

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Future accounting students set up for success thanks to legacy gifts

In 2022, the Fisher School of Accounting celebrated 45 years of providing exceptional accounting education to students. In that time, more than 10,500 students have graduated from the school and gone on to careers across the business landscape.    To

Significant damage due to a hurricane in Florida

An Island unto Itself

Florida stands apart in many ways. The peninsula has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, the world’s largest amusement park and one of the biggest wetlands anywhere. But Florida exceptionalism cuts both ways: The state has also the

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