Warrington in the News Articles: page 20

Assistant Professor Sehoon Kim‘s recently published academic study found that individual investor demand for socially responsible investing “is highly sensitive to income shocks” and economic stress.

A group of leading AI experts from institutions in the U.S. and abroad presented on a range of topics related to AI and its applications and implications for hiring, management, privacy, health care treatment decisions, population health and more at the UF-NSF Workshop on AI Governance, presented in part by the UF Warrington College of Business Department of Management.

A study from Assistant Professor Sehoon Kim finds that the appetite for ESG investing goes down when there is an economic shock such as Covid-19 lockdowns.

New research from Martin L. Schaffel Professor Klodiana Lanaj and alumni Trevor Foulk (Ph.D. ’17) and Remy Jennings (Ph.D. ’22) shows that the simple act of starting the day with some positive self-reflection can have big impacts on how a leader feels about their role and consequently make them better leaders at work and happier at home.

Now that companies have regulatory approval to raise capital through a direct listing without being limited by tight pricing restrictions, the yet-unused alternative to a traditional initial public offering could find more takers once market conditions improve. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights on how this will benefit firms.

Data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story on the significant IPO slowdown in 2022. In the whole year, there were just 181 IPOs in U.S. equity markets, having seen more than 1,000 the year before.

Initial public offerings appear likely to remain sluggish for at least several months to start 2023, while special purpose acquisition companies, which provide businesses with alternative paths to public listings, face headwinds of their own. The IPO drought could last years in a worst-case scenario, according to University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.

Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about what’s to come in the 2023 IPO market.

Brands are constantly updating their visual identities. Intel recently went through its third visual brand identity refresh in half a century, and its new logo has iconic symmetry, balance, and proportion. The underlying geometry is apparent in the design. Could visual design characteristics influence consumers’ perceptions about the brand?

In a new Journal of Marketing article, marketing Ph.D. student Felipe Affonso and Russell Berrie Eminent Scholar Chris Janiszewski find that a sense of order and structure can reinforce claims about a brand’s utilitarian benefits.

When Charles Roberson’s (MSE ’22) company failed in 2016, he wanted to know why. The former Hewlett Packard executive had struck out on his own, creating a business that used computer gaming technology to develop training programs for pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging equipment. For 15 years it was successful, with a worldwide installation base. What happened?

The then 78-year-old returned to the University of Florida in 2020, 47 years after he received a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and entered a master’s program in entrepreneurship at the Warrington College of Business, intent on solving the problem of why his company failed.