Warrington in the News Articles: page 23

Executive Director of the Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center Tim Becker shares some leadership tips that are game-changers for students wanting to excel in this field. Becker shares the benefits in being kind, possessing humility, and being a good listener as key components to success. Becker’s tried and true leadership program teaches students to be strategic thinkers in the ever-changing real estate world.

Conservative CEOs are four times more likely than their liberal counterparts to acquire international firms rather than forge new alliances when entering foreign markets, according to new research from Associate Professor Aaron Hill. The same study finds that these political biases can be moderated by active, independent boards.

Silencing your notifications and ignoring your email at the end of the workday could make you a better leader at your job, according to new research from Martin L. Schaffel Professor Klodiana Lanaj and Ph.D. alumna and Florida State University Assistant Professor Remy Jennings.

ChatGPT can’t see the future, but it already has value for investors looking to predict future moves in the stock market. That’s according to a new research paper published Monday in the Social Science Research Network by Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang.

Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang find that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices. They used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random.

Huber Hurst Professor of Business Law Robert Emerson shares his franchising insights as part of a panel discussion on The Law and Economics of Franchising at the Franchise Times Legal Eagles Virtual Summit on April 12. The free virtual summit begins at 10 am CDT.

Jack Kramer Term Associate Professor Michael Mayberry and Assistant Professor Scott Rane are co-authors of a new paper that finds that the risk-incentivizing component of option compensation is positively associated with conforming tax avoidance, while value-creation component of option compensation is negatively associated with conforming tax avoidance.

Forget the stereotype of a goodbye party in the break room followed by endless days on the golf course. Today, workers are staying on the job longer and taking on more “bridge employment,” or post-retirement jobs. Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo Wang talks about what these shifts mean for modern retirement, how retirement can affect people’s mental and physical health, and what workers—even those who still have many years left in the workforce—can do now to help set themselves up for a happy retirement in the future.

This week marks the one-year anniversary since the Russia-Ukraine war began, when Russia invaded Ukraine after supporting the separation of Ukrainian territory. The impact has been global. Asoo Vakharia, a supply chain researcher and McClatchy Professor in the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, has been tracking trends in these global disruptions. While economic 2022 data is still being finalized, Vakharia discusses what we know about the disruption from the war, how countries are coping with the changes, and future supply chain challenges.

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.