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An interdisciplinary team led by University of Florida researchers has proposed an artificial intelligence, or AI, model to predict long-term mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. A team led by Md Mahmudul Hasan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and the UF Warrington College of Business Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, hopes to improve treatment outcomes and reduce mortality in coronary artery disease, or CAD, patients with their lightweight graph neural network.

In an extensive study from Associate Professor Aaron Hill examining the relationship between personality traits and executive pay, CEOs who exhibit more Machiavellianism, characterized by motivation to achieve personal goals and ‘win’ social interactions, are more likely to have higher total pay and severance pay and to secure higher pay for those on their top management team.

Sell-side research analysts are unusual in that they are white-collar knowledge workers whose work quality is (1) public and (2) objectively measurable. So you can ask questions like “which characteristics make an analyst good,” and use publicly available information to get answers that are (1) plausibly true and (2) plausibly generalizable to other sorts of white-collar knowledge workers. And one way to find out is of course to look at analysts’ earnings estimates. Research from Baolian Wang and Ph.D. students Peixin Li and Jiawei Yu dives into how return to office mandates impacted equity analysts.

University of Florida Assistant Finance Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira discusses the development of the technology and what he learned in the process on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

Initial public offerings (IPOs) captivate investors with the chance to get in on the ground floor of promising companies, potentially reaping substantial long-term returns as firms like Apple or Amazon once did. However, IPOs carry significant risks, often amplified by market hype and limited historical data. Studies, such as those by Jay Ritter show IPOs frequently underperform broader market benchmarks in their first year.

JBS, the biggest meatpacker in the world, is set to go public on the New York Stock Exchange this week. Jay Ritter comments on the company’s IPO.

Water bottle collection has become a trend. The impulse to collect, replace or upgrade is a choice shaped by consumer psychology. It allows consumers to blend personal style and usefulness while staying on trend. Aner Sela, City Furniture Professor, specializes in understanding how consumers make choices and form preferences. Consumers often choose products that are easy to justify buying, he said. They often underestimate the effect other people have on their choices.

Circle’s IPO made Wall Street history with the biggest two-day surge since 1980. Yet, behind this spectacular performance lies a troubling paradox: the issuer of USDC literally left 3 billion dollars on the table with institutional investors. How can this colossal financial sacrifice be explained? Jay Ritter shares his IPO insights.

While the first day of trading usually captures the most attention with IPOs, second-day stock-price moves tend to be more muted with larger deals of $500 million such as Circle’s.

The second-day trading gain of about 45% for Circle’s newly issued stock puts it many times over the average second-day return for larger IPOs over the past five years, according to Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor who tracks IPOs.

In the annals of “amounts left on the table” from IPOs, that $1.72 billion is big. Jay Ritter, a professor at the University of Florida and the world’s leading expert on IPOs, told Fortune that the figure ranks seventh largest for all offerings since 1980.