Finance Professor Talks Non-Competes and What ESG Ratings Get Wrong

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Friday Q and A: A professor of finance and accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas, Umit Gurun specializes in the kind of meticulous, math-heavy research that isn’t always easy to unpack for a gen…