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<p>The challenges facing business today are more complex and interconnected than ever before. The Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder offers a cutting-edge perspective of trending topics, along with actionable insights, to help you navigate the evolving world of business.</p><p>Leeds Business Insights Podcast is a production of Leeds School of Business and is produced by <a href="https://university.fm/" rel="nofollow">University FM.</a></p><p><br></p>
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July 29, 2026
S5E4: Dave Allen - Embracing AI and Student-Led Innovation
<p>On this episode of the Leeds Business Insights podcast, host Claire Stewart talks with Dave Allen, the CEO of Pure Fishing for Sycamore Partners as well as a Leeds alumnus and Dean’s Advisory Board member.</p><p><br></p><p>Dave describes his career path from landing his first job with Unilever to leading turnarounds, emphasizing a strategy of cutting invisible costs, reinvesting in brand building and innovation, strengthening culture, and assessing talent. He cites social media as one seismic consumer-products shift, requiring hyper-local, nimble marketing across platforms. </p><p><br></p><p>Dave also says AI in business has turned out more to drive efficiency than replace jobs and encourages businesses and students to “just start.” He details a CU internship partnership that paired business and engineering students to solve marketing and efficiency use cases, including YouTube optimization and AI storyboarding, generating major view gains and $1.9M savings that the organization used to hire full-time AI staff to continue these trends. Dave and Claire also discuss the outdoors industry and what makes it unique.</p><p><br></p><p>Leeds Business Insights Podcast is a production of Leeds School of Business and is produced by <a href="https://university.fm/" rel="nofollow">University FM.</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>EPISODE QUOTES:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>An advice for people intimidated by AI</strong></p><p>08:10: [Claire Stewart] Is there any advice that you might give to businesses that are kind of intimidated by AI, and they don't know how it's going to impact things?</p><p>08:17: [Dave Allen] Start. Just start. You know what? Some things will work, some things won't work. You'll find your own rhythm. I think where we started, you know, it was really around efficiency. How do we go and save money? And I think where we've evolved is, you know, to be able to push it more towards growth. So how can we leverage it to be able to be, you know, drive faster innovation, better innovation, and drive more sales across more channels. So, our journey has sort of taken us through efficiency and now into growth, but I think the most important part is just get started.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>AI is a real gift</strong></p><p>07:17: I would encourage people to think about AI as a real gift. So they've grown up with AI in a way that, you know, you and I haven't, right? So they've thought about AI in terms of how they approach everything probably since, even the tail end of high school for the batch of seniors that we have right now. And if you take a look at it, you know, if you're probably over 26 or 27 years old, you might as well be 50, because you really haven't used the tool that often. And so I think their ability to be able to take it, solve problems, but also be able to go and then teach a whole generation of people within an organization how to use it, how to leverage it, will give them a huge competitive advantage in the marketplace.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Why CU graduates stands out</strong></p><p>16:07: Part of the beauty of CU, I think, is not only the in-class experience, but it's all the other things that CU and Boulder has to offer. And so I think that, you know, I find a lot of those students are really high on the EQ side, and that's a huge differentiator and really important, for people in terms of how far they can go in their career.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>SHOW LINKS:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://leeds.ly/dave-allen" rel="nofollow">Episode Transcript</a></li><li><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/business/leeds-directory/dave-allen" rel="nofollow">Dave Allen | Leeds School of Business Profile</a></li><li><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/business/news/2026/01/16/talent-meets-technology" rel="nofollow">Talent Meets Technology: How Students Solved a Problem for a Global Brand | Article</a></li></ul>
June 24, 2026
S5E3: Mallory Decker - The Collaboration Penalty: Why All-Women Teams Face Unique Workplace Hurdles
<p><span>On this episode of the Leeds Business Insights podcast, host Claire Stewart talks with Mallory Decker, a Leeds School of Business doctoral candidate in organizational behavior and former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot who served 11 years on active duty, including tours in the U.S. House of Representatives and at NATO.</span></p><p><span>Mallory explains how being one of the few women in naval aviation and often the only woman in high-level NATO meetings motivated her to study gender and teams at work. She shares research on gender pay gaps showing that not only do individual women face pay-gap challenges in male-dominated workspaces and industries, but women also face a “collaboration penalty,” driven by perceptions that women’s groups threaten the male-dominated status quo. </span></p><p><span>Claire and Mallory discuss implications for organizational transparency and accountability. Mallory outlines her three-paper dissertation and offers valuable advice on why prospective PhD students should pursue programs aligned with their research interests.</span></p><p>Leeds Business Insights Podcast is a production of Leeds School of Business and is produced by <a href="https://university.fm/" rel="nofollow">University FM.</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>EPISODE QUOTES:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>What inspired Mallory to study organizational behavior?</strong></p><p><span>03:05: I was very often the only woman in the room where these large international decisions were being made. And it really struck me as being, "Man, I thought we had come so far as women." And I just realized there were still so many structural issues in place that I did not realize when I graduated college and was going off to enter the workforce. So, over the course of these 11 years serving in the military, I realized, "Hey, these are issues that I am always interested in reading about. These are issues that I kind of have an opinion on based off my experience, and these are things that I really think could be improved and that I would be excited to try to help change." And yes, I could see myself studying these things for the rest of my life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Advice for those who want to pursue a PhD</strong></p><p><span>16:44: Make sure you really want to do research, because that is what you do in the PhD program. It does require a lot of self-motivation, initiative, drive, and persistence to keep wanting to come back when you are getting negative feedback and being told your paper is not good enough for this journal, and you need to go rerun the experiment another 10 times before maybe it will work or you will find anything interesting. So it does take a lot of dusting yourself off and getting back up from it, and you have to really enjoy the process and not just the outcome if you are going to get into it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong> What did her research find about how all-women groups are perceived and penalized?</strong></p><p><span>11:17: So we found that when women work in exclusively all-women work groups, so teams of all women versus teams of all men, the gender pay gap gets worse. So when men work with all men, their pay increases. When women work with all women, that pay gap gets bigger than if they just worked alone, and their pay was taken into account just as a solo employee. And we found, we tested through some online experiments, that this was because groups of women presented a threat to an existing status quo in male-dominated workplaces that solo women workers did not present, and that male workers, either alone or in the same groups, did not present. So we found that when women work together, they present a threat of competition that they do not present when they work by themselves, and that led to lower pay.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong>SHOW LINKS:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://bit.ly/mallory-decker" rel="nofollow">Episode Transcript</a></li><li><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/business/leeds-directory/mallory-decker" rel="nofollow">Mallory Decker | Leeds School of Business Profile</a></li><li><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/business/faces/2024/11/01/mallory-decker" rel="nofollow">Mallory Decker | University of Colorado Boulder Article</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywdecker/" rel="nofollow">Mallory Decker | LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Mallory-Decker-2272823431" rel="nofollow">Mallory Decker | ResearchGate Page</a></li><li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ImtfnysAAAAJ" rel="nofollow">Mallory Decker | Google Scholar Page</a></li></ul>
May 27, 2026
S5E2: Shay Har-Noy - Empowering Entrepreneurs: Insights from Techstars
<p>Today on the Leeds Business Insights podcast, our host, Claire Stewart, sits down with Shay Har-Noy, the managing director of Techstars Boulder. Shay’s enthusiasm for entrepreneurship is undeniable, and he is responsible for raising the fund, recruiting companies, and working with the world's best founders.</p><p><br></p><p>Shay and Claire discuss Shay’s path from his education through founding his first company, having it be acquired, leading Uber’s Colorado tech facility, working at Spire through its NYSE listing, and, most recently, joining Techstars to relaunch in Boulder. He explains Techstars’ return after COVID-era consolidation, the renewed, dedicated Boulder fund, and the accelerator model: hundreds of applicants vying for 8–10 slots, a $220,000 investment, a 12-week program, software perks, and access to a global investor network and a 10,000+ founder network. </p><p><br></p><p>Shay emphasizes how it’s never been easier to start companies with AI, but many businesses shouldn’t be venture-backed, and he describes the types of businesses he sees being successful and how they can best be ready for the challenges. Shay outlines investability and makes a compelling pitch for Techstar’s upcoming in-person cohort, with applications due June 10 for a September start.</p><p><br></p><p>Leeds Business Insights Podcast is a production of Leeds School of Business and is produced by <a href="https://university.fm/" rel="nofollow">University FM.</a></p><p><br></p><h3>EPISODE QUOTES:</h3><p><br></p><p><strong>Why this is the best time to start a company</strong></p><p><br></p><p>07:09: It's never been easier and more accessible for people who are exceptional founders, who are passionate about their problem space, who understand and empathize with their customers' pain points. There's never been a better time for them to start a company. And so what's interesting now is a lot of the conversations that I have with founders isn't, “Is your company a nice one or not a nice one?” It's, “It can still be something that VCs wouldn't invest in that would still be a great company for you.”</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Making Colorado the best place in the country to build a company</strong></p><p><br></p><p>11:57: I think Colorado is a really special place. My goal is to make Colorado, to put it back on the map, and to help contribute to it being on the map, to be the best place in the country to build a company. Okay. There's places with more investors. There's places on the coast with more entrepreneurs. I've lived in both of these places, okay? I think what we have is an amazing ecosystem of business leaders, of mentors, of entrepreneurs, where the culture is such that we are working closely to make these companies successful. And I haven't seen that in many or any other place, where there's just the right density of talent, just the right density of funding, and absolutely the right density of mentorship and support for these companies. And that's unique to where we are now.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Techstars Boulder is not just software as a service</strong></p><p><br></p><p> 15:48: Techstars Boulder is not just software as a service, right? It's not just software companies. It's also companies that have solved deep technical problems that are bringing them to market. And so now you're like, "Hey, if you squint really hard, Shay's got three jobs, right? Attract, select, and accelerate," right? One, two, three. And this is how CU can help me with, with the talent pool and with the applicant pool, with the selection, and with the acceleration.</p><p><br></p><h3>SHOW LINKS:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/boulder-accelerator" rel="nofollow">Techstars Boulder</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/techstars-boulder-accelerator/" rel="nofollow">Techstars Boulder | LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.techstars.com/about/managing-director-shay-har-noy" rel="nofollow">Shay Har-Noy | Techstars Profile</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harnoy/" rel="nofollow">Shay Har-Noy | LinkedIn</a></li></ul>
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<p>The challenges facing business today are more complex and interconnected than ever before. The Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder offers a cutting-edge perspective of trending topics, along with actionable insights, to help you navigate the evolving world of business.</p><p>Leeds Business Insights Podcast is a production of Leeds School of Business and is produced by <a href="https://university.fm/" rel="nofollow">University FM.</a></p><p><br></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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