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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...

Leeds professor delivers inaugural talk in Steven Lindstrom Pardo Memorial Finance Lecture Series. Leeds professor Shaun Davies opened his talk by explaining the daunting research and publication process, as well as the value new research offers to a classroom. He also shared stories of his friendship with Steve Pardo, his...

Matusik recognized for the vision and leadership she’s brought to the business school at CU Â鶹ӰԺ​. Dean Sharon Matusik, right, listens as Todd Saliman, president of the University of Colorado, recognizes her as the winner of the Excellence in Leadership Award. ‘You’ve made the Leeds School into an amazing place...

CDO Magazine names Leeds professor among the world’s most influential academic leaders in analytics. 'It's fun to see who else is trying to redesign education in analytics and data,' Kai Larsen says. Larsen was recently named to CDO Magazine's list of the world's most influential academic leaders. When we talk...

Heightened visibility and important insights offer invaluable guidance for Leeds’ research-active professors.​ Anyone looking for tips on how to improve productivity needs to get on Yonca Ertimur’s calendar. As senior associate dean for faculty and research and Tandean Rustandy esteemed professor, Ertimur has a full portfolio of responsibilities that include...

Confirmation bias on social media is nothing new in politics and news. New research shows it's a challenge in investing, too. As ongoing revelations about Facebook’s algorithm are showing, social media’s ability to shape our attitudes by steering users into echo chambers is raising questions about our national discourse and...

As stadiums and arenas reopen, struggling teams are losing revenue by not introducing data-driven pricing for ticket sales. Advanced stats like WAR and WOWY have changed how coaches and managers evaluate the talent on their teams. Now, a researcher at the Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business wants...

Leeds research finds target-date fund sponsors overcharged investors by $30 billion from 2008 to 2019. If, in 2006, you had put $1 million into one of the nation’s largest target-date funds, that investment today would be worth about $2.2 million. Not a bad return, right? But TDFs have substantial fees...

Virtual volunteers help organizations make social impact through the use of online volunteering platforms, scarcely studied until now. After decades under the radar, the practice of online volunteering really hit its stride with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before COVID, most people thought of volunteering as giving their time...

Confident you can beat the market? New research warns against trusting your memories of past trades. Investors' memories of past performance are positively biased, according to a new research paper co-authored by Philip Fernbach, professor of marketing and co-director of the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making in...