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Graduating During a Pandemic

April 22, 2020

Two brand-new programs offer Leeds graduates a lifeline in their job search.

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Leeds School of Business Wins Innovation Program Award by the AACSB for Elevating Entrepreneurial Mindsets

April 21, 2020

The innovative Demystifying Entrepreneurship workshop series produced by the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, has received global acclaim in the 2020 Innovations That Inspire challenge by AACSB International, the world’s largest business education alliance. Leeds is one of the 25 business schools chosen this year,...

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Deming Center Launches COventure Forward In Support of Hard Hit Small Business and Entrepreneurial Communities

April 17, 2020

The difficulties created during the COVID-19 outbreak have hit nearly every industry in Colorado. Businesses and their leaders are facing unforeseen challenges and struggling to survive, pivot and even adapt to find new opportunities. The impact on the economy won't be fully understood for months, if not years. However, the...

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Business Confidence Plummets in the Wake of Coronavirus, According to the Latest LBCI

April 7, 2020

Business leaders’ confidence hit a record low in the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index (LBCI) report, primarily due to concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak. The index also captured its greatest single-quarter drop since the start of the LBCI in 2003. Leeds’ Business Research Division (BRD) produces the LBCI quarterly, which...

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Leeds Mentoring Programs Take the Gold: the Highest Accreditation from the International Mentoring Association

April 6, 2020

Leeds mentoring programs recently received the highest level of accreditation—Gold Level—from the International Mentoring Association accreditation. All three of these programs, Peer2Peer, Young Alumni, and Professional Mentorship Programs, are now internationally recognized as model programs and leaders in mentorship among higher education institutions. “This has been a long accreditation process,...

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New Venture Launch Course Highlights Growing Collaboration Between Business and Engineering

April 5, 2020

April signals more than just spring blooms on the trees around CU Ƶ’s campus; it’s also the return of one of the school’s most exciting, cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial events, the New Venture Challenge Championships—with up to $100,000 in prizes up for grabs. At the top of Leeds’ teams to watch this...

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Harnessing Student Brainpower to Solve COVID-19 Challenges

April 4, 2020

They’ve been trained to think and act like entrepreneurs. Now, business minor capstone students in the new venture course at Leeds School of Business face their most challenging project yet: Create a business that solves a problem of the coronavirus pandemic. Problems can range from addressing supply chain challenges, efficient...

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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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Leeds Coronavirus Information

March 31, 2020

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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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