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Leeds participates in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, providing free tax assistance to low income residents
Leeds helps residents receive $461K in tax refunds through IRS program

April 26, 2017

For the 8th year in a row, students from Leeds and the Law School with faculty help volunteered to prepare taxes for free through the Internal Revenue Service鈥檚 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which provides free tax preparation services for low-income residents. For the 2016 tax season, Leeds students...

Bart de Langhe research
Assistant Professor Bart de Langhe examines the pitfalls of linear thinking in a nonlinear world

April 19, 2017

Decades of research in cognitive psychology show that the human mind struggles to understand nonlinear relationships鈥攖hat is, relationships between two factors in which a change in one factor does not correspond with constant change in the other. In business, there are many highly nonlinear relationships. To avoid costly misjudgments, it鈥檚 important to recognize when they鈥檙e in play.

Leeds Team competing in International Real Estate Competition
Real estate students compete in exclusive international case competition

April 14, 2017

Students from Leeds took part in an invitation鈥攐nly real estate competition hosted by the University of Southern California. The International competition featured only nine schools with the best real estate programs in the country competing for the top spot. This year鈥檚 team included four seniors and two juniors: 鈥婰eeds real...

Leeds Rankings
Leeds Evening MBA ranks in top 15% nationally

March 14, 2017

According to new rankings issued by U.S. News and World Report, the Leeds School of Business jumped up 13 spots in the Best Business Schools Part-time MBA category, going from No. 59 last year to No. 46 this year.

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

March 13, 2017

People believe that they know way more than they actually do. This assertion is the focus of new research from Professor Philp Fernbach of the Leeds School of Business and Steve Sloman, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University. 鈥淲e all suffer, to a greater or lesser...

Dr. Stefanie Johnson
Top minds in business share advice for women in any career stage

March 8, 2017

Leeds鈥 own Dr. Stefanie Johnson contributes insights on harnessing personal strengths for professional success, overcoming challenges in entrepreneurial endeavors, and changing the gender disparity in leadership roles.

Leeds team member and MBA candidate Nick Thigpen holds up check from winning VCIC regionals
Students, Startups, and Venture Capitalists - Leeds Graduate Students Win Regional Competition

Feb. 23, 2017

The SM调教所鈥檚 Leeds School of Business beat out several elite schools at the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition on Feb. 17, 2017. The regional win moves the team of five graduate-level students forward to compete in the global finals in April. The competition allows students from top...

Stefanie Johnson, Assistant Professor
Dr. Stefanie Johnson Comments on Workplace Diversity through Technology in The Economist

Feb. 21, 2017

Blind recruiting is the practice of removing personally identifiable information from applicants, and it鈥檚 gaining popularity in HR departments. Dr. Stephanie Johnson talks with The Economist to examine discrimination in the workplace and software technologies that promise to remove gender and ethnic bias from the hiring process.

DBECC ABConsulting Group Winners
Leeds School takes top spots in this year鈥檚 Business Diversity and Business Ethics Case Competition

Feb. 21, 2017

For the second-consecutive year, Leeds students were awarded top honors over the weekend at the Leeds School for Business Diversity, and Business Ethics Case Competition (DBECC) hosted in collaboration with the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Center for Education on Social Responsibility. The competition invited undergraduate students from Leeds...

Dr. Philip Fernbach
Professor Philip Fernbach to Research the Cognitive Basis of Extremism

Feb. 13, 2017

Philip Fernbach, Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Leeds School of Business, received a $165,000 fellowship grant to conduct a two-year research project examining the question 鈥淲hat makes us argue so heatedly over things we know so little about?鈥 His project, The Cognitive Basis of Extremism , will explore how...

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