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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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People |

The Engle family's love for UNLV runs so deep they named their terrier-poodle mix Rebel. Now, they're helping the next generation of Honors College students unleash their potential.

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Business and Community |

UNLV’s first named academic department honors the Molasky family’s decades-long connection to the university; reflects investment in students, faculty, and region's future.

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Campus News |

With both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience, UNLV students win national cybersecurity competition.

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Campus News |

UNLV Lifelong Learning brings alumni back as community educators in workforce development and personal enrichment courses.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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People |

The Classified Employee of the Year uses her extensive institutional knowledge to turn staff’s and students’ questions into crystal clarity.

Business In The News

MSN

Tensions between the once-tight North American neighbors, sharing a 5,525-mile boundary, continue to rise with less than four months to go before the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections. The Nevada governor’s race is emerging as a piece of political collateral damage, with Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) running for a second term against Nevada’s attorney general, Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee.

Washington Examiner

Would-be Canadian visitors to Sin City won’t get a vote in Nevada’s gubernatorial election. But they could influence it in a profound way.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Donation establishes endowment for scholarships, faculty research and hands-on learning at Lee Business School.

Vegas Inc

American consumers have remained relatively resilient against high gas prices as a result of the war in Iran, according to David Tinsley, managing director and senior economist at the Bank of America Institute.

WalletHub

A budget is a plan that outlines how much of your income should go to different parts of your finances, from monthly bills and day-to-day purchases to savings, charitable donations and investments. WalletHub asked a panel of experts to share some budgeting advice.

Las Vegas Review Journal

When billionaire Tilman Fertitta offered $17.6 billion to take Caesars Entertainment private, industry observers viewed it as a bold move by a longtime casino operator seeking control of one of gaming’s largest companies. Less than one week later, another billionaire made an even bigger bet.

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Recent Business Accomplishments

Kim Charron and Robert Cornell (both Accounting) published the article “AI Can Simplify Complexity in Litigation Support,” in the September/October 2025 issue of Fraud Magazine. The article earned UNLV accounting faculty Charron and Cornell, along with Rick Warne, the Hubbard Award from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE…
Hamed Mahmudi (Finance) coauthored a manuscript titled "The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity" with coauthors from the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois Chicago. The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), one of the leading journals…
Won-Yong Oh (Management and Entrepreneurship) and his co-authors' paper, "The Power of State Capitalism: Political Regime Shifts and Divergent Outcomes in SOE Performance," was published in the Journal of Management Studies, one of the Financial Times 50 (FT50) journals, a globally recognized list of the world's leading business journals used to…
Scott Jackson (Accounting) recently presented at the 2026 European Network for Experimental Accounting Research (ENEAR) Conference held in Bern, Switzerland. Jackson presented two papers, one titled “Profanity and the Company-Investor Relationship" and another titled "CEO Gender and Investors' Judgments: Evidence on Information Acquisition and…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Management Information Systems), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Digital and in-person mindfulness-based interventions for university students’ mental health: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials” in…
Jason Smith (Accounting) and his co-author John Keyser from Arizona State University recently published their paper, “Private Equity and Public Accounting: New Development or Variation on a Theme?” in Accounting Horizons. Investigating the recent surge of private equity investors acquiring stakes in U.S. CPA firms, the study examines the roots of…