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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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People |

Go-getter Charles Weber found academic and professional development opportunities through MGM scholarship program at UNLV.

UNLV XMAS
Campus News |

This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.

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Campus News |

As plans for a permanent memorial garden take shape, community-driven projects offer a way for students and faculty to reckon with loss.

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Campus News |

The awards honor Naoko Takemaru, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, and Patricia Navarro Velez.

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Business and Community |

Students in Lee Business School marketing course partner with Mars Wrigley to sweeten the deal and boost traffic to Rebel Express.

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Campus News |

The project reframes the experience of walking into the building while honoring the memories of the professors lost.

Business In The News

KSNV-TV: News 3

Nevada ranks first for new homes built in natural landscapes prone to wildfires according to the Lied Center for Real Estate at UNLV. A map of the United States shows the growth percentage in residential housing units located in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) between 1990 and 2020. Nevada is marked in red and shows a growth rate of 208 percent.

Yahoo!

A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community.

Salt Lake City Sun

People are increasingly moving into the wildland-urban interface areas, where human development meets wild vegetation, like forests, according to a University of Nevada-Las Vegas expert. Such landscapes are also notorious for wildfires.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community. Congress passed the ban due to security concerns over the Chinese government’s app ownership. TikTok played a key part in the success of Guiliano Raso’s business, a food truck named 303 in the Cut.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Places in the west that are especially at risk to wildfire destruction are Urban Wildland Interfaces (UWI) — transition zones between unoccupied and urban land.

The Real Deal

The wildfires that torched thousands of homes around Los Angeles will send refugees across the desert to Las Vegas, putting pressure on its tight housing market.

Business Experts

An expert on consumer behavior, marketing, health messaging, and sustainability communications.
An accomplished economist, professor, and administrator in the fields of business and economic research.
An expert in financial literacy.
An expert on IT and business analytics.
An expert on technology management, and information technology innovation.
An economics professor specializing in real estate, as well as urban, health, and environmental issues. 

Recent Business Accomplishments

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, "…
Sutirtha Chatterjee (Information Systems) has been honored with the Outstanding Reviewer Award by the European Journal of Information Systems, a prestigious journal on the Lee SARS list. This recognition highlights Chatterjee's exceptional contributions to the peer review process, ensuring the integrity and quality of academic research.
Hamidreza Nikkhah (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently published the article, "Strategizing Responses to Data Breaches: A Multi-Method Study of Organizational Responsibility and Effective Communication with Stakeholders," in the Journal of Management Information Systems. This significant achievement focuses on response…
Alyx Phillips from Three Square Food Bank and Environmental and Occupational Health alum, Courtney Coughenour, Sheila Janofsky (both Environmental and Occupational Health), Ian McDonough (Economics), Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), Samantha John (Brain Health), and Lisa Segler from Three Square Food Bank presented a talk, "…