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…

Jehun Moon, Mehmet Erdem, Ozgur Ozdemir, Hyelin (Lina) Kim (Hospitality) and Eda Anlamlier (Business) have published their study titled, "What drives Millennials and Generation Z to adopt cryptocurrency for hotel payments?," in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Their study is among the first to comprehensively…

Hamid Reza Nikkhah (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) has published a new study in Information Systems Frontiers. The article, co-authored with Frederic Schlackl from HEC Montreal and Rajiv Sabherwal from the University of Arkansas, examines how cultural differences influence privacy considerations and responses to institutional…

Tom Arnold (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) published the book, The Digital Detective: First Intervention. It's available on Amazon as a Kindle book.  About the book: Cyber threats and cyber criminals indiscriminately target the old as well as young regardless of race, creed or origin. Teens and young adults must realize that on…

Stephen Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) had his paper, "Does Debt  Management Matter for  REIT Returns?", with co-authors Zhilan Feng, Clarkson University, and Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ryerson University appear as the lead article in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2025. Asset and debt…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) has been appointed as an editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR), an academic journal in the field of business management and finance. Corporate Governance: An International Review is a leading journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge research on comparative…

Stephen M. Miller (Business; Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella, formerly UNLV, along with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl and Mohammad Ghasemi Doudkanlou published an academic paper, "On the speed of adjustment (SOA) toward the target financial leverage ratios and its determinants: Evidence from the capital structure of the…

Marlena Gatlin and Lisa Davis (both Business) were interviewed for the article, "The Market’s Getting Crowded: UNLV Launches A Fully Online MBA Program For Just $19K," in Poets & Quants.

Lee Business School's financial literacy program was highlighted in a recent New York Times' article on financial literacy education. The article quotes J. Daniel Chi, finance professor and chairman of the finance department, and then describes recent developments in financial literacy education at other universities, including Stanford, Harvard,…

Joe Protopapa (Business), a current member of the Mountain Pacific Association for Colleges and Employers, is serving as co-chair of the Pre-Conference Engagement Committee for the association's annual conference. The conference, a cornerstone event for professionals in the field, will take place in December 2025.

Graduate students Josue Felipe Obando, Nate Boyle, and Tegist Worku (all Business) showcased their exceptional skills at the prestigious Data4Good Competition hosted by Purdue University. After winning 1st place in the regional round, the team advanced to the national stage, earning an impressive 3rd place finish. Their project, "…