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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...

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...

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...

Leeds' Provost Professor of Marketing Meg Campbell and her three coauthors, Kenneth Manning and Hannah Manning from Colorado State University and Bridget Leonard from Purdue-Fort Wayne University, recently received honorable mention for the C.W. Park Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Journal for Consumer Psychology . The award, named donor...

CU Real Estate Center presents its 22 nd annual Real Estate Forum at the Denver Center for Performing Arts on March 7, 2019. This year’s theme is centered around the growing sector of real estate and technology. Forum attendees can qualify for five hours of Continuing Education Units (CEU) and...

For the 10 th straight year, the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder is proud to offer free tax preparation services to taxpayers with household income of $54,000 or less, persons with disabilities, and limited English-speaking taxpayers as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)...

Leeds alumnus and donor, Tandean Rustandy (Fin´87) , was recently recognized as a 2019 Influential Leader by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business . Rustandy is part of 33 business school graduates in this class of leaders, representing 33 AACSB-accredited schools across 13 countries. Each honoree was nominated...

According to the Leeds Business Confidence Index (LCBI) , Colorado business leaders expressed caution ahead of Q1 2019. After a notable dip ahead of the fourth quarter, Q1 saw the 10th largest quarterly drop and 5th-largest annual drop in confidence in the 64 quarters the Leeds School has conducted this...

What's the secret? Over the past four years, American colleges and universities have struggled to recruit MBA students. A 2018 survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the nonprofit that oversees the GMAT examination, noted that applications to U.S. MBA programs declined by 7% this year. However, despite...

The Association for Consumer Research (ACR) announced Leeds professor, Phil Fernbach, as the recipient of their 2018 ACR Early Career Award for his influential work in the field of consumer research, adjacent disciplines, and public discourse at their annual conference in October. “The Early Career Award recipient is awarded for...