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Leeds VITA program consultation
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...

TAMUGA Rankings
Leeds Management Faculty Rank High Among Elite Schools in 2018 TAMUGA Rankings

April 8, 2019

The TAMUGA Rankings, a collaboration out of Texas A&M and the University of Georgia, placed Leeds management faculty alongside elite business schools including Purdue, Columbia, Ohio State, among others. For Leeds, this includes our research faculty in the areas of Organizational Leadership, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. The TAMUGA Rankings track productivity...

NVC 11
Leeds Students Take Home Big Prizes at the NVC11 Championships

April 5, 2019

The 11 th annual New Venture Challenge Championships were held at the Boulder Theater on April 3. The road to the championship began with a kickoff in the fall of 2018, with 119 teams competing across five unique tracks: Creative Industries, R&D, Hardware, IT and General. The winners from each...

Leeds News
Research Shows That Attractive Business Women are Viewed as Dangerous in the Workforce

March 26, 2019

Attractive women can be perceived as dangerous in the business world due to a “femme fatale effect,” according to new research by the Leeds School of Business and Washington State University. This effect results in attractive businesswomen being seen as less trustworthy, less truthful, and more dispensable from their jobs...

BRD Report
BRD report on NREL economic impact released

March 14, 2019

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released an economic impact report created by the Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business. The report highlights nationwide contributions as well as those to the Denver and Boulder metropolitan statistical areas. For more highlights and to...

Meg Campbell
Provost Professor of Marketing Meg Campbell receives Honorable Mention for the C.W. Park Award for Outstanding Contribution

March 7, 2019

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...

CUREC 22nd Annual Forum
CU Real Estate Center presents its 22nd annual Real Estate Forum

Feb. 22, 2019

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...

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