Warrington in the News Articles: page 26

Public Utility Research Center Director of Energy Studies Ted Kury provides insights to fact check a claim that the Permian Basin, the U.S.’s most productive oil region, has enough oil to fuel America for 200 years.

Research collected by Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story that asks if too many companies went public too early in the past couple years. Should they have waited until they could deliver the kind of predictable earnings and growth trajectories that public investors favor?

Curious about cryptocurrency?

Assistant Professor Tao Li explains cryptocurrencies and discusses the recent sharp drop in the value of cryptocurrencies.

Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story about Enjoy Technology Inc, a Silicon Valley retailer led by former Apple Inc and JC Penney Co executive Ron Johnson, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, fewer than nine months after going public through a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter contributes his insights to this story about how US ECM bankers are facing the slowest market for IPOs in more than six years with few obvious signs that conditions are about to take a turn for the better in the second half of 2022.

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter contributes to this story about newly public companies getting bought out—for far less money—while blank-check promoters prepare for a more skeptical market.

“The recent fall in cryptocurrency (crypto) and non-fungible token (NFT) values has led to anxiety, finger wagging, and calls for regulation. This is not surprising; bitcoin prices have fallen by one-third in the last 30 days. The largest crypto exchange, Coinbase, is laying off nearly one-fifth of its workforce.

The responses have been predictable. Bill Gates mocked people for trying to make money in cryptocurrencies. Personal finance guru Dave Ramsey called cryptos and NFTs “flashy money trends” and warned against investing in them.

But these responses are overreactions,” says Mark Jamison, Public Utility Research Center Director.

Assistant Dean and Director of UF MBA John Gresley shares his insights for this guide on  you need to know about studying an Online MBA in 2022.

Avoiding potentially divisive language and encouraging tolerance are critical steps to creating an inclusive work environment, but they carry a downside. Being politically correct can deplete employees and lead them to act both angrily towards and withdraw from their spouse that evening at home. Warrington’s Klodiana Lanaj and alumnus Joel Koopman, and colleagues write that the depletion that employees feel after being politically correct is problematic and should be of concern to managers.

These are just a few examples of the reality that startups are too often funded by dreams that turn out to be nightmares. We recall Apple, Amazon.com, Google, and other grand IPO successes and forget thousands of failures.

Recent data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter (“Mr. IPO”) of the University of Florida show that 58.5% of the 8,603 IPOs issued between 1975 and 2018 had negative three-year returns, and 36.9% lost more than 50% of their value.