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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Behold the FSU Organizational Effectiveness Institute, formerly the Center for Human Resource Management, and meet Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, the Barry and Janice Anderson Director of the institute and the Mary Tilley Bessemer Associate Professor of Business Administration. 

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush encouraged students in Florida State University’s real estate program to focus on leadership, to take risks, to cultivate their “networking garden” and to be givers instead of takers.

Alumnus Cameron Pennant (BS Management ’15) became one of five Florida State University graduates to win the Reubin O’D. Askew Young Alumni Award by the Florida State University Alumni Association.

Mirroring a trend at academic institutions throughout the country, the Florida State University College of Business announced that it is moving to a GMAT-optional policy beginning with applications submitted by Oct. 1 for spring entry.

The Florida State University College of Business celebrates continued student and faculty achievement amid updated rankings that keep two of its acclaimed undergraduate programs in the Top 10 among public schools.