Addressing Business Challenges with Research & AI: Collaborate, inspire, learn

Join us to discover how smart research and AI can help tackle your toughest business problems.

Have a business challenge but not sure how to engage with research? Discover how Leeds University Business School works with organisations to explore challenges across AI, supply chains, consumer behaviour, and payment systems, and develop research-led solutions that deliver real-world impact.

Leeds University Business School invites you to an in-person taster session designed to help organisations understand how they can engage with academic expertise to address real-world business challenges. The session will showcase practical examples from research in AI, consumer behaviour, payment systems, and supply chain management.

Through these areas, you will see how Leeds University Business School works with organisations to explore business challenges, shape research questions, and apply insights in practice. You will gain a clearer understanding of how research collaboration works, and how it can support your organisation’s priorities.

You do not need a fully defined research brief to attend this session – it is designed to help you explore where research could add value. The session will feature short talks from academics working across supply chain management, analytics, and consumer behaviour. Together, these talks will explore how business decisions are shaped across value chains, from how goods move through supply networks to how customers pay and spend.

This event is designed to give you a clear sense of:

  • How Leeds University Business School research could connect to your business challenges
  • The types of collaborations developed with external partners, and how you can explore these
  • How research insights can inform decision-making and innovation within organisations

The evening will conclude with informal networking, providing an opportunity to meet academics and continue the conversation around potential collaboration.

Agenda:

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Welcome and introduction

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Understanding customer spending and payment choices with Q&A

Dr Dionysius Ang, Associate Professor of Marketing

This talk explores how Buy Now, Pay Later payment options influence customer behaviour. Drawing on transaction data from a large US retailer, the research shows how payment structures affect how often customers buy, how much they spend, and how they perceive financial constraints. The session highlights what these insights mean for retailers and organisations managing modern payment options.

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Supply chain challenges and real‑world decision‑making with Q&A

Professor Chee Yew Wong, Professor of Supply Chain Mngt

This session focuses on contemporary challenges in supply chain management and how research can support decision-making across complex value chains. Drawing on work in supply chain strategy, resilience, and performance, the session demonstrates how academic research can contribute to practical solutions for real-world business problems.

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Networking

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