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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 |

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.

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Campus News |

Budgeting, bragging rights, and a lot of fun — this accounting class adds up to student success.

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Campus News |

The students and faculty of UNLV are springing into headlines around the country.

Nicholas Irwin in front of the Rebels Make It Happen banner
People |

Economics professor examines Las Vegas real estate and how environmental economics and market insights shape sustainable, resilient communities.

Business In The News

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.

KNPR News

After weeks of tariff changes, and the resulting market dips, Americans are terrified of looking at their 401ks, prices are fluctuating for just about everything and consumer confidence hasn't been this low since the pandemic.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The construction of Allegiant Stadium, a $2 billion project partially funded by $750 million in public bonds, has ignited a debate over the use of taxpayer money for sports arenas.

Nevada Current

Five years of COVID-era relief for federally-insured mortgages has helped millions of American homeowners retain their properties, while artificially inflating home prices and leading to the potential for Bubble 2.0, insist some experts who are hailing a decision from President Donald Trump’s administration, announced Tuesday, to end one program in September.

KSNV-TV: News 3

As home prices in Nevada continue to go up, state lawmakers are looking at limiting the number of homes corporations can buy.

Business Experts

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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…