Feb 04
Annual Workplace Wellbeing Report 2026 finds majority of US workers still languishing
Study adds new insights into how flourishing employees cope with workplace stressors and how work and ethical environments impact employee well-being.
Feb 03
Study: Roommate assignment can play important role in improving patient outcomes
Study finds placing patients with roommates who have Alzheimer’s or Alzheimer’s-related diseases (AD/ADRD) leads to a 14% higher 90-day mortality rate overall compared with placing them in private rooms.
Feb 02
Qiping Xu Wins Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize for greenwashing research
The Dimensional Fund Advisors Prizes are among the most prestigious in the field of finance. Winners are selected by the associate editors of the Journal of Finance, and the Distinguished Paper Prize carries with it a $10,000 award.
Jan 27
PODCAST: From the Pitch to the Boardroom: Lessons in Global Leadership
In studying 355 elite national soccer teams from around the globe, Gies Business Professor Mike Szymanski finds that teams led by multicultural managers enjoy an advantage in a sport where nations from every corner of the world collide.
Jan 23
Ravi Mehta honored with the Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professor in Marketing
The Walter H. Stellner Professorship is a prestigious honor at the University of Illinois that recognizes excellence in the study of marketing.
Jan 21
Julia Fonseca wins 2025 Brattle Group First Prize for mortgage lock-in research
The Brattle Group Prizes in Corporate Finance recognize outstanding research published in The Journal of Finance, which is widely recognized as one of the foremost journals in its field.
Jan 19
From ChatGPT-3.5 to 4.0: Follow-up study finds better math, same financial risks
A follow-up study testing ChatGPT-4.0 found it shows improved organization, fewer math errors, and slightly better risk awareness than version 3.5, but still gives flawed, poorly prioritized financial advice and sometimes misleading “false empathy.”
Jan 15
Study: Expedited breakthrough drug approvals linked to higher safety risks
Researchers found that drugs approved under Breakthrough Therapy Designation experienced an average of 1,722 more serious adverse events per year than non-BTD drugs.
Jan 12
Ambulance Taxis: Curbing Medicare fraud without hurting patient care
Medicare has spent billions on nonemergency ambulance rides for dialysis patients, many of which were fraudulent. New research from Gies Business shows that prior authorization requirements dramatically reduced this abuse without compromising patient care.