Thought Leadership

Life during COVID-19 leaves consumers feeling conflicted between saving for uncertainty or spending for reward. It is no surprise that consumer purchasing activity would be impacted by the economic uncertainty created during a global pandemic. Concerns about financial security versus “compensatory consumption” during times of crisis are expected and often...

Historically, social media listening has relied on text-centric posts to provide insights into consumer behavior and preferences, but that is no longer the case. Instagram’s popularity has soared in recent years, and its consumer-created image-dominant posts are just one example of how photos and other visual imagery are replacing text-centric...

In the COVID-era, this cutting-edge program has recruited some of real estate’s foremost experts for its online offerings this fall. Technology has positively, and drastically, altered the way commercial real estate operates within recent years. Once viewed as outside the norm of “brick and mortar” operations, PropTech (property technology) optimizes...

Study on machine learning and graphical aids for understanding attitudes and beliefs recognized at leading information systems conference. Getty images Associate Professor Kai Larsen and Assistant Professor David Eargle , along with Provost Distinguished Research Professor David Gefen from Drexel University and Professor Stacie Petter from Baylor University, received the...

In the working paper “Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic” Associate Professor Tony Cookson and researchers from the Rady School of Management investigate the link between political affiliation and expectations about future stock market performance. Researchers Joey Engelberg and Will Mullins, along with Cookson analyzed approximately...

Leeds’ Assistant Professor Nicholas Reinholtz, in collaboration with professors from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Georgia Institute of Technology, published a recent paper titled Perceived Momentum Influences Responsibility Judgments . Their research studies how people judge the responsibility of sequential events, such as correct and incorrect guesses,...

It’s both destructive and creative. New research by Assistant Professor Asaf Bernstein and colleagues from Columbia Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management address the effect of financial crises on innovative activity by examining historical patent filings across the U.S. The group studied the impact and resilience of...

Leeds Accounting Professors, Jonathan Rogers and Sarah Zechman’s, paper “Run EDGAR Run: SEC Dissemination in a High-Frequency World” was selected to receive the 2020 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award by the American Accounting Association. In the paper, Rogers and Zechman collaborate with the University of Chicago's Douglas...

Faculty research plays a critical role in building a top business school. When a journal article is very successful, it influences how academics think about a topic and changes how people in industry and government think, too. But the impact does not stop there; this work inspires curriculum and, more...

After more than a decade studying humor and teaching MBA students, Marketing Professor and humor scholar Peter McGraw , has turned his attention to translating lessons from comedy—some from his own comedy successes and failures—into business insights. McGraw’s latest book Shtick to Business launches , appropriately, April 1. Four “Sets”...