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CHIPS Ahoy? Federal Incentives No Guarantee of More U.S.-Made Semiconductors

Aug. 8, 2022

Will the federal CHIPS Act rescue domestic semiconductor manufacturing? One Leeds expert weighs in.

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Making Sure MBAs R Prepared for Data-Focused Future

Aug. 2, 2022

The Leeds Class of 2022 honored Dan Zhang for an analytics course that emphasizes applications of data to business problems.

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Students Recognized for Excellence in Real Estate at CUREC’s Awards Ceremony in Spring

Aug. 1, 2022

Inaugural Tom Thibodeau award presented at special event honoring students in real estate. Left to right: Maxwell Mashaal, Nicholas Macray and Julia Perry As the summer winds down and we look ahead to a new fall semester, we’d be remiss if we didn’t take one last look back to spring...

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KeyBank Business Leadership Program Brings Future Buffs to Campus

July 1, 2022

Students won $2,000 scholarships to attend Leeds. Students came from across the state to participate in the 2022 KeyBank Business Leadership Program, a weeklong experience hosted on campus. Rising high school seniors and incoming first-year students were introduced to life at Leeds through the annual KeyBank Business Leadership Program (BLP)...

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The Leeds Business Confidence Index (LBCI) Q3 2022

June 28, 2022

Download The Leeds Business Confidence Index (LBCI) Q3 2022 Colorado business leaders expressed pessimism ahead of Q3 2022, recording the fifth-lowest index in the 20-year history of the Leeds Business Confidence Index driven by inflation, interest rates, and the supply chain, among other factors. Looking two quarters ahead to Q4...

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In Stanley Cup Final, an Avalanche of Demand Sends Ticket Prices Soaring

June 15, 2022

A Leeds analytics expert says teams’ box-office strategies are ‘leaving a lot of money on the table’ for resellers.​ The Stanley Cup on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Colorado last qualified for the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 2001—part of the reason the resale ticket...

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Podcast: Making Diversity Work—Both at Work and in Virtual Settings

June 14, 2022

There has been plenty of talk about diversity in the workplace—but it’s long since time leaders figure out how to build the sort of cultures that reward inclusion and leverage diversity to benefit teams and organizations. In this episode of Leeds Business Insights , professor Sabrina Volpone—an expert in workplace...

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Data Quality: Leeds Wants to Shape the Conversation on Improving Business Analytics

June 13, 2022

Experts from industry and academia came to Â鶹ӰԺ for a conference assessing the challenges facing this discipline.​ A small group of professors identifies challenges facing the business analytics master's programs they run at their schools. The format allowed for shared experiences and candor about the challenges these programs face. Below...

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Driven to Succeed: Leeds Student Wins Global Racing-Inspired Alteryx Competition

June 6, 2022

Claire McCollough is the first college student to win the event, a year after placing fifth overall. Claire McCollough celebrates with the Grand Prix trophy at the conclusion of the race. 'I could tell I improved dramatically from last year,' she says. 'Seeing that level of improvement alone would have...

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Podcast: A Matter of Natural Selection

June 1, 2022

The market for natural and organic products has been gaining steam for years now, but all that growth means it’s not just enough to be passionate about your purpose. On this episode of the Leeds Business Insights podcast , Heather Kennedy—an instructor at Leeds and a former leader with Fresh...

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