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Business has to be good and that now carries value and legitimacy. Leeds is committed to educating good business leaders by emphasizing business ethics, diversity and sustainability in courses and being a leader among business schools in this space
Dr. Christina Lacerenza has received a 2017 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Christina will be joining the Management and Entrepreneurship program at Leeds, exploring effective leadership methods as it relates to speech and gender. Visit the postdoctoral affairs program to learn more about Christina and the other postdoctoral fellows.
Decades of research in cognitive psychology show that the human mind struggles to understand nonlinear relationships—that is, relationships between two factors in which a change in one factor does not correspond with constant change in the other. In business, there are many highly nonlinear relationships. To avoid costly misjudgments, it’s important to recognize when they’re in play.
People believe that they know way more than they actually do. This assertion is the focus of new research from Professor Philp Fernbach of the Leeds School of Business and Steve Sloman, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
Blind recruiting is the practice of removing personally identifiable information from applicants, and it’s gaining popularity in HR departments. Dr. Stephanie Johnson talks with The Economist to examine discrimination in the workplace and software technologies that promise to remove gender and ethnic bias from the hiring process.
Philip Fernbach, Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Leeds School of Business, received a $165,000 fellowship grant to conduct a two-year research project examining the question “What makes us argue so heatedly over things we know so little
Insider trading or following the law? Learn how an obscure federal regulation allows insiders to buy and sell shares in advance of broad public knowledge of negative or positive market news.
The Wall Street Journal’s The Experts panel is made up of financial advisors, academics and other investment professionals who weigh in on the big issues they see in the field. This edition discusses investment diversification and the emotional