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Lee Business School News

The Lee Business School advances the knowledge and practice of business; develops business leaders; and fosters intellectual and economic vitality through the creation and dissemination of knowledge and outreach.

Current Business News

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Campus News |

Aryah Certain and Jennifer Tidwell turn sports fandom into social impact, taking home the grand prize for their innovative solution to Nevada’s volunteer shortage.

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Campus News |

A collection of colorful headlines featuring UNLV staff and students.

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People |

Sky Denson says UNLV's real estate program helped launch his career — before he even graduated.

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Campus News |

Students from across disciplines invest a half million (virtual) dollars to learn how to make real-time investment decisions.

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UNLV History |

The business leader and pioneer for the UNLV Foundation passed away April 14.

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Campus News |

A UNLV-record 28 graduate and professional programs placed within the nation’s top 100 in their discipline, including 14 from Boyd School of Law.

Business In The News

Nevada Current

Nevada’s Economic Forum adjusted the tax revenue forecast down $191 million for the upcoming biennium, representing a further dimming of& an already dreary outlook of how the economy will fare under the Trump administration.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management have agreed to share data on public lands that could be released for future development as part of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s larger effort to fix the state’s housing crisis.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

At just 19 years old, UNLV Junior Sehaj Singh enjoys trading stocks as his fascination has now become a hobby. When the opportunity came along to participate in UNLV’s first-ever President’s Investment Challenge, he and several other students jumped on board to get a first-hand look at the campus-wide investment competition.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) embarked on a new educational venture this semester, testing their financial instincts through a virtual stock market challenge.

Las Vegas Weekly

The economic impact of the Vegas sports boom has been a fast-moving phenomenon, so specific and intriguing that the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER)and Sports Innovation Institute have created a tracking tool, the Southern Nevada Sports Economy Data Dashboard, to serve as an evolving research document.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Looking at the average level of residential permits filed between 1995 and 2003 (omitting a period of economic downturn in 2004-09), beginning in 2010 there was a 64 percent drop in permits, nearly three times as large of a drop than the national average (23 percent) during that same time period, according to a new report from UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate.

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Recent Business Accomplishments

John Starkey (Kerestesi Center for Insurance and Risk Management; Business) was honored with the Showstopper of the Year title at the American Cancer Society’s Fork Cancer event in Las Vegas. Fork Cancer recognized twenty distinguished "Showstoppers," each tasked with raising critical funds to support the American Cancer Society’s mission. Through…
Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science and Management Entrepreneurship, and Technology) a UNLV CyberCorps SFS Scholar, was invited to present on the UNLV Cyber Clinic at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference that recently took place in Dallas, Texas. WiCyS’ mission is to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust…
Cervantes Lee (Business; Hospitality), with co-authors Zihui Ma (Hospitality) and Linchi Kwok from Cal Poly Pomona, published "Multi-Unit Restaurant Management," now available through Kendall Hunt Publishing.  The book provides in-depth strategies and practical insights for managing multi-unit restaurant businesses — a fast-…
Isabelle Graham (Economics; Brookings Mountain West; The Lincy Institute) and Zachary Billot (Political Science ’24) will represent Nevada and California respectively at the 2025 Western Governors' Leadership Institute (WGLI) Annual Meeting. The WGLI is a prestigious program developed by the Western Governors' Association to…
Marla Royne Stafford (Marketing & International Business) has been named as an advisor to the Cannabis Media Council. The Cannabis Media Council is the first trade council dedicated to using the power of mainstream media to uplift wholehearted, people-centered advertising campaigns that show positive experiences with cannabis. Stafford has…
Scott Jackson (Accounting) and co-authors Elaine Wang and David Piercey from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published their paper, "Does Temporal Immediacy Impact Investors’ Judgments? It Depends on Communication Mode," in the journal Behavioral Research in Accounting. The study finds that investors are more willing to…