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FSU Business of Healthcare Summit yields calls for bold action from industry

Florida Blue CEO Pat Geraghty served as keynote speaker of the inaugural Florida State University Business of Healthcare Summit.


FSU real estate program stands at No. 2 in ‘REAL’ global research rankings

The latest Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings for authors and institutions show FSU’s real estate faculty tied at No. 2 with National University of Singapore. Among authors, FSU’s Tingyu Zhou ties for the No. 4 ranking, while fellow faculty member Chongyu Wang ties for 10th in the world.


Baucum: Using big data for better health outcomes

A pioneering study from researcher Matthew Baucum, published in Management Science, demonstrates that, when paired with data-driven reinforcement learning, wearable sensor data yields insights that could help physicians better treat their patients.


Harmeling: Exploring the role of morality in consumerism

Researcher Colleen Harmeling declares in a video circulated by the American Marketing Association that our spending decisions “signal to ourselves and others our own moral self-understanding.” She adds in the video – “The Role of Consumer Morality in Driving Inclusive Growth” – that this concept has gone largely overlooked in marketing research.


Hochwarter: Taking ‘a snapshot’ of today’s workplaces

So you love your job and want to take on another massive project?

Consider Professor Wayne Hochwarter’s recent findings published in Career Development International. Even those passionate about their jobs are destined for burnout, his study says, unless they have elevated ego resilience, which enables a worker to pause, reflect and adjust.


Karl: Determining the risk, price of distracted driving

Brad Karl, State Farm Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Florida State University College of Business, has spent the last half of a decade studying the economic cost of distracted driving, including how cell phone bans affect automobile insurance claims and costs, as well as refining estimates of the risk posed by distracted driving.


Mityakov: New findings for studies on household production

Associate professor Sergey Mityakov’s paper, “Unobserved Inputs in Household Production,” contends that almost all existing empirical studies of health, child development and job-training programs fail to account for “unobserved” actions that people commonly undertake – “rendering the conclusions of those studies incomplete and resulting in possibly misleading policy recommendations,” he says.


Zimmerman: Exploring effects of diversity on audit quality

A new study from Aleksandra “Ally” Zimmerman, an accounting assistant professor and Dean's Emerging Scholar who specializes in auditing and taxation, finds that firms with greater gender and ethnic diversity retain more accountants and produce better audits. 


For FSU’s placekicker, accounting and RMI degrees plus football add up to rewarding experiences 

Florida State University placekicker Ryan Fitzgerald earned undergraduate degrees in accounting and risk management/insurance from the College of Business and now continues his pursuit of an FSU Master of Accounting, or MAcc.


Business of Healthcare Summit to address state’s ‘most crucial’ concerns

The Business of Healthcare Summit, scheduled for Jan. 26 at the Augustus B. Turnbull Conference Center, will examine healthcare operations in the state and nation from the perspective of hospitals, private practices, health systems, policy boards and other professional organizations.