In The News: Lee Business School
Not all of Elon Musk’s projects have been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic. While the billionaire clashed this week with local officials over restarting production at a Tesla Inc. factory in California, his tunnel-drilling company hit a new milestone in Nevada.
One of the biggest payouts on the Las Vegas Strip could come from your mind. UNLV and partners are looking for a million dollar idea.
The spring homebuying season arrived this year without a bloom.
Las Vegas’ Lee Business School has teamed up with the family it’s named after to offer $1 million in prizes for innovations that promise to help the hospitality industry bounce back from the COVID-19 crisis.
One of the biggest payouts on the Las Vegas Strip could come from your mind - not from a poker table or slot machine.
Some businesses in Las Vegas will reopen Saturday after nearly two months into the coronavirus lockdown. But hospitality workers still grapple with uncertain future.
More than seven weeks after Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak's stay-at-home orders were put in place to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the bustling heart of Las Vegas remains one of the bleakest faces of the nation's pandemic-driven crisis.
Andrea Bensmiller and three bandmates were onstage at the Planet Hollywood resort on the Las Vegas Strip, performing for conventioneers during a big mid-March construction trade show when word came that she and thousands of other musicians, acrobats and entertainers were out of work.
It’s unnaturally quiet these days on the UNLV campus, which normally would be swirling with students preparing for final exams coming.
A competition is looking for entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry who can rapidly innovate to safeguard guests’ and employees’ well-being in the post-pandemic era.
The winking airport slot machines that tell visitors they have arrived in Nevada’s Sin City are turned off and wrapped in police tape; the famed Las Vegas Strip is so empty a group of bicyclists zooms down the middle on a Friday night.
The Lee Business School at UNLV and the Ted and Doris Lee Family Foundation are looking for submissions for the Lee School Prize, an incentive program for entrepreneurs and innovators to come up with ideas to help bring Las Vegas out of the public health crisis.