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Leeds’ Accounting Professors Win Best Paper Award

June 22, 2020

Leeds Accounting Professors, Jonathan Rogers and Sarah Zechman’s, paper “Run EDGAR Run: SEC Dissemination in a High-Frequency World” was selected to receive the 2020 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award by the American Accounting Association. In the paper, Rogers and Zechman collaborate with the University of Chicago's Douglas...

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Leeds Highlights Top Faculty Research With Kahle Family Research Award

May 18, 2020

Faculty research plays a critical role in building a top business school. When a journal article is very successful, it influences how academics think about a topic and changes how people in industry and government think, too. But the impact does not stop there; this work inspires curriculum and, more...

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Beyond “Yes, and...” Professor Peter McGraw’s Shtick to Business Delivers Career Insights Inspired by Comedy

March 31, 2020

After more than a decade studying humor and teaching MBA students, Marketing Professor and humor scholar Peter McGraw , has turned his attention to translating lessons from comedy—some from his own comedy successes and failures—into business insights. McGraw’s latest book Shtick to Business launches , appropriately, April 1. Four “Sets”...

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New Virtual Conferences Fill Void for Up-and-Coming Finance Researchers

March 31, 2020

Conference cancellations and postponements in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak are creating a chasm for academic researchers. Gone are the in-person opportunities for faculty—especially untenured faculty—to exchange ideas, workshop their research papers and engage in thoughtful dialogue. But not for long. Tony Cookson , Associate Professor of Finance and...

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Leeds' MBA Programs Rise in New 2021 U.S. News & World Report Rankings

March 16, 2020

Leeds' Full-Time and Evening MBA Programs both moved up the ranks in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Graduate Schools rankings, which were released today. The Full-Time MBA rose to the number 70 spot among all business schools nationwide—up by 9 positions from 2020’s rankings—and to number 41 from...

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Leeds' Professor and Phd Student Provide Commentary in Psychological Inquiry

March 9, 2020

Invited response in Psychological Inquiry by Philip M. Fernbach and Nick Light Human beings have a remarkable penchant for believing things that are not true. This has always been the case. Ancients believed in nature deities, bloodletting was thought to cure disease for many centuries, and physiognomy, the belief that...

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Leeds Professors Shed Light on Inequalities in Disaster Relief

March 3, 2020

“The wealthier you are, the more assistance you're getting,” says Associate Professor Emily Gallagher of the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder. That’s what she found when analyzing how FEMA grants were distributed after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Co-authored by Leeds Associate Professor Stephen B. Billings and Lowell Ricketts...

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Associate Professor Stefanie K. Johnson Named a Global Thought Leader Among Top Management Professionals

Feb. 17, 2020

The Leeds School of Business is proud to announce Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson was recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 thought leaders in management for 2020 . According to Thinkers50, a London-based organization dedicated to providing access to innovative...

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Dean Sharon Matusik Leads CU Toward the Future

Feb. 6, 2020

Learn about CU’s strategy for the next five years and beyond. Last summer, CU kicked-off a systemwide strategic plan to identify the university’s strategic priorities for the future. Working closely with CU President Mark Kennedy, Dean Sharon Matusik was named a co-chair for the CU systemwide “Lean Into the Future”...

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Exposing Children to Banks Can Lead to Better Credit as Adults

Jan. 31, 2020

The earlier people can be exposed to banks, the more likely they are to have better credit and financial stability as adults, according to a new study co-authored by Leeds Associate Professor Tony Cookson . In their new paper “Growing Up Without Finance,” recently published in the Journal of Financial...

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