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2018 Teaching/Advising Awards winners: Liangfei Qiu, Gus Kreatsoulas, Bernadine Thomas, and Brian Ray

Four honored with Warrington’s teaching, advising awards

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Warrington College of Business recognized faculty members Dr. Brian Ray and Dr. Liangfei Qiu along with advisors Bernadine Thomas and Gus Kreatsoulas as its 2017-2018 Teaching/Advising Award winners. Brian Ray: Dr. Ray is

Jim Heaney

A Surprising Passion

After graduating from the UF MBA program in 1988 and working for two non-travel related companies, Jim Heaney was offered a position with Royal Caribbean Cruises. He had only one hesitation. “I had never been on a cruise ship or

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UF MBA Online Program remains in the nation’s top 5

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – UF MBA at the Warrington College of Business ranked fifth among publics in U.S. News & World Report’s “2018 Best Online MBA Programs” rankings released Tuesday. UF MBA’s Online Program has ranked in the top 5 among

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UF MBA announces fully online MBA program

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – UF MBA is expanding its Online MBA program to include a fully online option. This new program will allow unparalleled flexibility and accessibility for students who are interested in pursuing their MBA from anywhere in the world.

The Gator Hatchery room with work stations

Student entrepreneurs grow their businesses in the Gator Hatchery

No one ever said being an entrepreneur was easy. As entrepreneur and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once said, “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off of a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” Building the plane became

Debbie Garvin

Debbie Garvin retires after 34 years at Fisher

When Debbie Garvin moved from her home state of North Carolina to Gainesville, Fla. after six years of practice in the tax department of a large public accounting firm, she didn’t think she’d be staying for very long. Thirty-four years

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Warrington marketing faculty rank in the top 5 in per capita research productivity among publics

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Warrington College of Business Marketing faculty ranked 4th in per faculty research productivity among U.S. public business schools and 9th among business schools worldwide in the University of Texas at Dallas Top 100

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UF MBA remains in the top 10 for job placement

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – UF MBA at the Hough Graduate School of Business remained among the top MBA programs nationwide for job placement in Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools 2017. UF MBA ranked No. 10 among U.S. publics in the “Job

Ted Fernandez

A Calculated Risk

Ted Fernandez (BSAc ’78) was staring at what most would consider a dream opportunity. He was the youngest of six candidates for the open Chairman position at KPMG while already running the firm’s strategic consulting business and serving as a

Richard Lutz

Richard Lutz named an Association of Consumer Research Fellow

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dr. Richard Lutz, JCPenney Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Marketing at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, was named a fellow of the Association of Consumer Research at its annual conference

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