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Assistant Professor David Drake Receives the 2018 Page Prize for Excellence in Business Sustainability Education

Aug. 13, 2019

Leeds’ Assistant Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations David Drake and colleagues Andre Calmon and Jackie Stenson (both of INSEAD), recently won the prestigious 2018 Page Prize for Excellence in Business Sustainability Education for a course they co-designed while Drake was visiting INSEAD business school last year. Giving students the...

Stefanie Johnson research
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Is on the Decline Post #MeToo, New Research Suggests

July 17, 2019

New research from Leeds’ leadership authority and Associate Professor of Management Stefanie Johnson and Ksenia Keplinger, a research associate, along with two Leeds doctoral candidates Jessica Kirk and Liza Barnes, found that in the wake of the #MeToo era, workplace sexual harassment has decreased. However, gender harassment has increased. Importantly,...

Voplone research
How Compassion Changes the Game for Working Mothers

June 22, 2019

Plenty of well-meaning employers support working mothers with legal protections and accommodations. But it takes more than that, says Sabrina Volpone, assistant professor of organizational leadership at the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business. In order for mothers to succeed at work, company policies are necessary but not sufficient...

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Early-Life Interventions Show Lasting Positive Impact for Lead-Exposed Children

June 13, 2019

Leeds Associate Professor of Real Estate Stephen Billings was recently highlighted in Quartz as conducting one of the most influential economics papers in 2018. His paper titled “ Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead ,” coauthored by Simon Fraser University’s Kevin Schnepel and published...

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Celebrating Mary Banks’ Service to Leeds

June 5, 2019

It’s not as common in this day and age for anyone to spend nearly 20 years at one institution or workplace, but Mary Banks, who is as uncommon and extraordinary as they come, did exactly that. Mary retired in early 2019 from Boulder and the Leeds School of Business...

FIELD Program at Leeds School of Business
Leeds Hosts the 2019 FIELD Executive Education Program June 2–7, 2019

May 21, 2019

Leeds School of Business and the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR) partners with MBArk, Naturally Boulder and the New Hope Network to present an MBA-level executive education program for and by the natural foods industry. Now in its second year, the Food Industry Executive Leadership Development (FIELD) certificate...

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Celebrating 10 Years of Leeds’ VITA Program

May 6, 2019

Over the past 10 years, Leeds has partnered with the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to help qualified Boulder County residents file over 4,000 returns. This service is provided at no cost to the local community and utilizes student and faculty volunteers from the Leeds School...

Real Estate
Getting a Jumpstart on the Future of Real Estate Education

May 3, 2019

Property technology, better known as PropTech, is transforming the way real estate does business. Real estate has been surprisingly slow to adopt digital tools compared to other industries. Subtle changes began to take place in waves, starting around 1980; yet, less than two years ago, PropTech was barely on anyone’s...

Sarah Kauss
S’well Founder and CEO Sarah Kauss (Acct’97) to Be Leeds’ 2019 Undergraduate Commencement Speaker

May 1, 2019

Sarah Kauss transformed the way many of us look at water bottles. A social-minded entrepreneur with an accounting background, Kauss built S’well, a sustainable water bottle company, on her own and from the ground up. Drawing from a desire to do business differently, she created a product that merged fashion...

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Leeds MBA Students Compete in the VCIC Finals

April 23, 2019

A team of five MBA students from Leeds School of Business took 7 th place in the MBA Global Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Finals on April 12-13, where 16 teams competed at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. The winning team from Georgetown University took home $5K...

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