Warrington in the News Articles: page 19

The NASDAQ’s delisting, if upheld after appeal, is expected to have a direct impact on LifeWallet’s financial health. It can cost more to trade stocks that are not listed on NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange, said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. Delisting can also affect investor confidence.

A recent Journal of Marketing Research study by Camilla Eunyoung Song (Ph.D. ’21) and City Furniture Professor Aner Sela shows that when consumers use smartphones, which are considered more personal and private than other devices, they are more likely to choose unique, self-expressive items that speak to their individual personalities. Using smartphones elevates consumers’ private self-focus, driving their preference for unique options that are unconventional and individually customized in their online shopping.

As part of a series of insights from Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar, his latest post highlights how to improve educational production. He notes that one needs to improve the output of underlying education-generating processes and proposes a generic framework for enhancing the output of an educational process and classifying past interventions into this framework.

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter lends his SPAC insights to this story about LifeWallet, the health-insurance claims company founded by lawyer John H. Ruiz, a top financial booster of University of Miami athletics, which faces another legal challenge after Miami healthcare provider Cano Health filed a lawsuit last week saying that Ruiz’s company owes it nearly $67 million. While their stocks traded for 45 cents and 12 cents per share, respectively, at market close on Tuesday, Cano and LifeWallet were among the highest-profile Florida companies in recent years to go public through mergers with special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC).

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.

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.

Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar has been working with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF) for the past few years to answer this question. During this period, he visited numerous K-12 schools in Uttar Pradesh, India, and interacted with teachers and administrators on one side and students and their parents on the other.

He shares his insights about the state of K-12 schooling in India, which generalize to other K-12 schools in most developing countries, and how we can supply quality K-12 education.

In Florida, the state’s growing population has been pushing up inflation – particularly via housing costs. It’s a trend that accelerated during the pandemic, when remote work gave some Americans the freedom to relocate, economists say. “A lot of people are still coming to Florida because the economy is really strong, and many like the fact that we don’t have an income tax like in New York, for example,” said Amanda Phalin, Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Florida.