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An influential paper by researchers at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Leeds School of Business continues to be central to the public debate about when financial education improves financial behavior. Leeds Professor, and Director of the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making, John Lynch is quoted in an August U.S. News...

A recent study out of Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management ranks the Leeds School Marketing faculty as among the very best in the world. The authors measured faculty productivity at 30 of the world’s leading marketing departments in the top academic journals in business and the social sciences. In...

Collaborative research by Leeds and the University of Texas at Austin shows the pros and cons for couples of unequal division of responsibility for money matters. When couples begin their relationships, they naturally divide up tasks and give one partner more responsibility than the other for finances. The person who...

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal addresses the impact that sea level rise (SLR) is having on housing markets. Research conducted by Leeds professors Asaf Bernstein and Ryan Lewis , in collaboration with Penn State University Professor Matthew Gustafson, demonstrates that homes exposed to SLR sell at a...

Recent research by renowned faculty member, John Lynch was featured in the Journal of Consumer Research. The research examines the potential relationship between financial and overall wellbeing. The research tapped into the correlation of the role of finances in a person’s wellbeing using consumer financial narratives alongside large-scale surveys and...

New research from Leeds professor, Jeff York shows that entrepreneurs are best positioned to combat climate change by delivering products or services that both sides of the political aisle support. Entrepreneurial businesses can deliver solutions using both economic and community responsibility logic to satisfy cultural barriers between political parties. Read...

Business has to be good and that now carries value and legitimacy. Leeds is committed to educating good business leaders by emphasizing business ethics, diversity and sustainability in courses and being a leader among business schools in this space. Leeds Center for Education on Social Responsibility was featured for its...

Dr. Christina Lacerenza has received a 2017 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Christina will be joining the Management and Entrepreneurship program at Leeds, exploring effective leadership methods as it relates to speech and gender. Visit the postdoctoral affairs program to learn more about Christina and the other postdoctoral fellows.

Decades of research in cognitive psychology show that the human mind struggles to understand nonlinear relationships—that is, relationships between two factors in which a change in one factor does not correspond with constant change in the other. In business, there are many highly nonlinear relationships. To avoid costly misjudgments, it’s important to recognize when they’re in play.

People believe that they know way more than they actually do. This assertion is the focus of new research from Professor Philp Fernbach of the Leeds School of Business and Steve Sloman, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University. “We all suffer, to a greater or lesser...