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Dean’s message
We had a great year at the UF Warrington College of Business! I’m very proud of what we’ve built because of our exceptional students, alumni, faculty and staff, as you’ll read in this report, but I’m even more energized about what lies ahead.
The UF initiative on AI and Analytics continues to transform curricula and research across the university and Warrington is at the forefront of that transformation. We have hired 10 new faculty in the past year focused on AI and Analytics across all areas of the College and we are infusing AI and Analytics in our graduate and undergraduate curricula so that all our students graduate with the skills needed in the 21st century workplace.
But a business school education involves so much more than just the classroom. Through a significant investment by the university and the generosity of our alumni, we are improving student outcomes with a renewed emphasis on professional and leadership development, co-curricular activities, communication skills, and career preparation, so that all our students start rewarding careers and achieve their full potential in life.
At the core of everything we do is our faculty. They do cutting-edge research that impacts society, publish in premier journals, hold leadership positions in prestigious academic societies, and excel in the classroom.
But I’m most proud of the exceptional education, access and value we provide to our students. With the lowest tuition among premier business schools, we have outstanding faculty, students, top-ranked programs and state-of-the-art facilities because of the commitment of our alumni. There is something special about the Gator Nation and I am so proud to be a part of the Gator Family.
Sincerely,
Saby Mitra
Dean, UF Warrington College of Business
Warrington Rises in the Rankings
Warrington is among the best business schools in the nation.
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Career Services Stands Strong in Rankings
Shaping the future of the College
The future of Warrington is being shaped by three important initiatives.
AI and analytics
In July 2020, UF announced a $70 million artificial intelligence initiative with NVIDIA, and Florida legislature provided $20 million in recurring annual funds to hire 100 new faculty. With access to HiPerGator, the most powerful supercomputer in higher education, UF is infusing AI across the curriculum of all colleges at UF.
An urban campus in South Florida
The University of Florida is in negotiations to open a graduate campus in West Palm Beach focused on technology and innovation. Made possible through philanthropic gifts and significant investments from the State of Florida, the City of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County, the new campus will include programs from the Colleges of Business, Engineering and Law that are highly interdisciplinary, experiential and focused on AI, Analytics and FinTech. Once approved by the Board of Governors and our accreditors, the campus will provide a platform to engage with the rapidly expanding business community and technology driven ecosystem in South Florida.
Diversity initiatives
Warrington has established dedicated administrative and staff positions and invested in programming to advance inclusion, diversity, equity and access in the College and among all stakeholders. To meet the needs of UF students, the employers who hire them and society, the College must attract, support and retain students, faculty, staff and volunteer board members from diverse backgrounds.
The Breadth of Warrington
Comprehensive academic programs for every student’s interest.
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The Scale of Warrington
One of the largest business schools in the country for number of degrees awarded.
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The Value of Warrington
Warrington has the lowest tuition of any top 30 business school.
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Warrington mourns the loss of Dean Emeritus Robert Lanzillotti
Robert “Bob” Lanzillotti, the College’s third dean, passed on July 8, 2022. He was 101 years old.
Over his century of life, Lanzillotti made a profound impact on the lives of many, from business students at the University of Florida to Americans across the nation.
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A research driven community
Warrington prioritizes its research culture. Faculty work together to inspire cutting edge research that changes industries and impacts the way the business world moves forward. Under the umbrella of an AAU, R1 university, Warrington faculty are changing the way business is done around the globe.
Warrington’s research faculty are highly productive scholars
- 57 individual faculty members hold named, endowed positions
- 213 faculty publications during the 2021–22 academic year
- 144 media mentions for faculty during the 2021–22 academic year
- 52 faculty members with editorial appointments during the 2021–22 academic year
- 67,714 faculty citations during the 2021–22 academic year
- More than $1 billion for annual UF research expenditures in 2021-22
Mo Wang named Associate Dean for Research
Warrington announced the appointment of Dr. Mo Wang as its inaugural Associate Dean for Research. Wang is the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair, Director of the Human Resource Research Center and Chair of Warrington’s Department of Management.
As Associate Dean for Research, Wang is focused on promoting Warrington’s research both across international academic institutions and the University of Florida campus. He is also responsible for the strategy and implementation of the College’s grant and contract research program and other externally funded research programs.
How attractiveness helps in the hiring process but confidence is king
From left: Warrington Ph.D. alumnae Min-Hsuan Tu and Elisabeth Gilbert and W.A. McGriff, III Professor Joyce Bono.
Think back to your last job interview in which you didn’t get hired. What were some of the reasons you told yourself you didn’t land the job?
Maybe you struggled in the interview or didn’t have the skills necessary for the job, but did you ever think it might have been because you weren’t attractive enough?
Decades of research have shown that people who are more attractive are more likely to get ahead in their careers. New Warrington research finds that at least some of the reason attractive people have better luck in their careers is because they have a greater sense of power and it shines through when they present themselves.
Pandemic-induced challenges widened the gender gap for female analysts
Bank of America Assistant Professor of Finance Baolian Wang
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a persistent challenge facing the business world – the gender gap. A recent study found that women’s jobs were 1.8 times more vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic than men’s jobs. The impact of the pandemic on women has only compounded the challenges they face in business.
A new study from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business highlights a job sector where women’s work was negatively impacted by COVID-19 – financial analysts.
Bank of America Assistant Professor of Finance Baolian Wang and Singapore Management University’s Frank Weikai Li found that female analyst forecast errors increased more than those of men during the early stages of the pandemic.
When rudeness becomes a matter of life and death
From left: Warrington’s Amir Erez, the University of Maryland’s Trevor Foulk (Ph.D. ’17) and Carnegie Mellon’s Binyamin Cooper (Ph.D. ’20).
Have you ever been cut off in traffic by another driver, leaving you still seething miles later? Or been interrupted by a colleague in a meeting, and found yourself replaying the event in your head even after you’ve left work for the day? You may be surprised by the magnitude of these effects they have on our decision-making and functioning. Recent research from Warrington alumni Binyamin Cooper (Ph.D. ’20) and Trevor Foulk (Ph.D. ’17) suggests that in certain situations, incidental rudeness can be deadly.
In research forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology, lead study author Cooper of Carnegie Mellon University, Christopher R. Giordano and W.A. McGriff, III Professor Amir Erez of the University of Florida, Foulk of the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, Heather Reed of Envision Physician Services, and Kent B. Berg of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, looked at how experiencing rudeness amplifies the “anchoring bias.”
Is user-generated content better off when user identity is revealed?
From left: Liangfei Qiu, Jingchuan Pu (Ph.D. ’19) and Kenny Cheng.
User-generated content (UGC) – from the photos and videos posted on social media to the product and service reviews shared on websites – is an increasingly important tool for companies looking to sell their goods and services. In recent years, the popularity of anonymous user-generated content has raised questions about the credibility of those photos, videos, blog posts and reviews.
In order to bring about transparency, companies like Amazon have given users the option to share their identity when posting reviews, while Yelp and TripAdvisor have integrated user accounts with their Facebook accounts. While transparency in users seems to be helping curb the issue, the behavior associated with being anonymous or not when generating content is top of mind for researchers at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – “Development and Validation of a TWH Climate Scale” (Mo Wang).
- National Science Foundation and Amazon Inc. – “Using Machine Learning to Address Structural Bias in Personnel Selection” (Mo Wang).
- National Science Foundation – “Effective Recovery for Organizations from the COVID-19: Optimizing Strategic Responses” (Gwen Lee and Mo Wang).
- National Science Foundation – “Diversity as an Organizational Capability: A Multilevel Examination of Board Composition and Firm Effectiveness” (Mo Wang and Aaron Hill).
- National Science Foundation, “AI across the statewide curriculum” (Jim Hoover).
- National Science Foundation – five-year (2018-2023) Phase I Industry/University Collaborative Research Center for Big Learning at University of Florida, with J. Principe (Amy Pan).
- Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications – Summer Research Grant (Liangfei Qui).
- UF Informatics Institute – A comparison between AI decision making versus Human-AI collaborations in high-risk settings. (Ivy Munoko)
- Wayne Archer (Indiana University Ph.D.) retired after 50+ years at Warrington.
- Joyce Bono (University of Iowa Ph.D.) is among the authors of the paper that received the 2021 Scholarly Impact Award from the Journal of Management.
- Bobby Carnes (Penn State University Ph.D.) was awarded the Warrington College of Business Graduate Teaching Award.
- Robert A. Connolly is the 2022 recipient of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) George Bloom Award.
- Joel Davis (University of Florida DBA) was named the Executive Director of the David F. Miller Retail Center.
- Dennis DiPasquale (University of Florida Ph.D.) is the recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award.
- Robert Emerson (Harvard Law School JD) was invited to give testimony at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Emerson also is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB).
- Aaron Hill’s (Oklahoma State University Ph.D.) research paper was named among the finalists for the prestigious 2022 Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management’s Human Resources Division.
- Lisa Hinson (University of Georgia Ph.D.) received the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Excellence in Reviewing Award.
- Marcus Kirk (Emory University Ph.D.) was voted the Outstanding Faculty Award winner by the graduating Executive MBA cohort.
- W. Robert Knechel (University of North Carolina Ph.D.) was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Nyenrode University. He was also appointed to a new PCAOB Advisory Group — Standards and Emerging Issues (SEIAG).
- Paul Madsen (Emory University Ph.D.) was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award by The Accounting Review.
- Michael Mayberry (Texas A&M University Ph.D.) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
- The management department was ranked No. 1 in productivity per faculty in the Texas A&M/University of Georgia Rankings of Management Department Research Productivity.
- Gary McGill (Texas Tech University Ph.D.) was appointed Chair of the Accounting Accreditation Committee (AAC), AACSB International.
- Ivy Munoko (Rutgers University Ph.D.) was awarded a competitive grant from UF Informatics for her project comparing AI decision making versus Human-AI collaborations in high-risk settings.
- Mike Ricci (University of Georgia Ph.D.) was awarded the J. Michael Cook Teaching Excellence Award.
- Mo Wang (Bowling Green State University Ph.D.) was named Warrington’s inaugural Associate Dean for Research.
- Cheryl Aasheim (University of Florida PhD), Clinical Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
- Maxim Dolinsky (University of Florida PhD), Clinical Assistant Professor, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
- Cindy Dosch, Lecturer, Accounting
- Shu He (Sichuan Normal University PhD), Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
- Stephen Martin (University of North Carolina at Charlotte PhD), Clinical Assistant Professor, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
- Anthony Middlebrooks (University of Wisconsin at Madison PhD), Clinical Professor, Management
- Jingchuan Pu (University of Florida PhD), Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
- Taikgun Song, Lecturer, Information Systems and Operations Management
- Yanbin Wu (Emory University PhD), Clinical Assistant Professor, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
- Mingzhang Yin (University of Texas at Austin PhD), Assistant Professor, Marketing
- Nan Zhang (University of Illinois PhD), Professor, Management
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The next generation of business
Warrington is changing curriculum and building an AI infrastructure to ensure that students are prepared for tomorrow’s business world after they graduate. Undergraduate students will be familiar with AI on their first day of a job because they are required to take at least one AI and analytics course.
New AI faculty hires
Warrington hired 10 new faculty in the last two years to focus on AI and analytics.
Warrington partners with UF Health Sciences to tackle bias
As our world continues to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and the benefits it brings to society, we must also recognize its challenges. One challenge congruent across disciplines is recognizing the inherent bias introduced by data and algorithms when using AI technologies to solve problems.
Multiple colleges at UF with researchers, industry leaders and academics from around the world came together November 16-17 to share ideas about how to do just that at the 2021 DAISY Workshop.
DAISY is a partnership between the UF Warrington Management Department, the UF College of Medicine Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions Department of Epidemiology.
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Meeting the needs of students
Warrington’s breadth of programs ensures that students have a variety of programs and classes to choose from that fit their goals. With many combination degree options and online programs available, Warrington continues to grow and find new ways to better meet the needs of students.
Warrington introduces new wealth management program
Students at the Warrington College of Business and across the University of Florida now have the opportunity to hone their wealth management skills thanks to a new program dedicated to the subject.
Warrington’s wealth management program is designed to provide students with a solid understanding of the concepts and techniques used by wealth management, insurance advisors and practitioners, like financial planning, investment planning and personal retirement planning.
Placement numbers
Warrington conferred 2,846 degrees in 2021-22 and those students achieved strong career outcomes.
Full-Time MBA
- 80% secured a job by graduation
- 93% received a full-time offer by 3 months post-graduation
- Average starting base salary: $117,826
- Average signing bonus: $24,438
Professional MBA
- 20% increase in average salary upon graduation
Bachelor's
- 86% secured a job by 6 months post-graduation
- Average base salary: $63,097
Top employers who hire from Warrington
- Amazon
- Bank of America
- Citi
- Deloitte
- EY
- Gartner
- KPMG
- Oracle
- PepsiCo
- Procter & Gamble
- PwC
- Raymond James
Business Career Services
- 4,103 Career Coaching Appointments (undergraduate and graduate combined)
- 2,272 Peer Coaching Appointments (undergraduate and graduate combined)
How Warrington is investing in career services
Career services are an integral part of the Warrington student experience. The College continues to ensure that every student has access to the Business Career Services team.
The team is adding four new career coaches to significantly decrease the student-to-career coach ratio, allowing the reach of career services to expand. Career coaches will work closely with a student on their career and professional development, setting them up to thrive in the job search.
The undergraduate Business Career Services team will begin a strategic approach with an enhanced model titled Centers of Business Excellence. This model focuses on intentional coaching spread across academic majors, degrees, and platform delivery. The new model also increases the collaboration for BCS across a number areas within the College, including the undergraduate school, as well as the academic departments and centers in Warrington.
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Learning in the real world
Learning about business in the classroom isn’t enough at Warrington. Students are encouraged to take advantage of experiences outside the classroom like student organizations, study abroad and professional development opportunities.
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A network of Business Gators
The Warrington College of Business is a global community of more than 85,000 alumni who call themselves Business Gators. Representing every state and over 50 countries, the Warrington network is truly everywhere. From new grads to C-suite executives, unicorn entrepreneurs, senior government officials and non-profit leaders, Warrington graduates passionately share their valuable time and resources to help Warrington.
