Warrington in the News Articles: page 14

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 spot it: a jack-o-lantern staring at you atop an orange and black display dotted with fun-sized candy and grinning skulls.

Why are you seeing spooky decor so early? Executive Director of the David F. Miller Retail Center Joel Davis explains.

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 (such as sharing students’ knowledge gaps with teachers so that they can provide additional class instructions), argues Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar, as part of a continuing look into the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools in India. In this article, he proposes an integrated framework of education production that shows how various entities in the education ecosystem participate in different education-generating processes to produce education.

Opting to go public through a SPAC, VinFast has one of the largest deals ever, valuing the 6-year-old Vietnamese automaker at $23 billion. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter offers his insights into VinFast’s quest to become a public company.

In partnership with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF), Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar is researching the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools. In his latest report, he examines whether the EdTech development and deployment, both inside and outside Indian schools, are aligned to maximize educational production or, more precisely, skills formation. These observations and prescriptions would generalize to k-12 schools in most developing countries.

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 sales were stronger — even though reviewers disclosed that they received the product for free.

Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about how investors are becoming cynical about startups and the venture capital firms that fund them.

While the market for IPOs has been strong recently, with successes from companies like Oddity Tech and Cava, it’s mostly a game of speculation to predict which A.I. companies will be ready to go public first. However, some metrics from past IPOs can help define when a tech company could be ready to go public, explained Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar.

Pham Nhat Vuong has the paperwork in place to take his electric-vehicle maker VinFast public through a SPAC listing with a blank-check firm. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on this deal, which would give VinFast an equity value of about $23 billion.

Is the IPO dry spell in tech finally over? Not so fast, says Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter.

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on the deal to take Donald Trump’s media company public facing another major setback, putting into question whether it will ever get completed.