Oct 25
Missing the mark — why target-date funds may not be the best option for investors
Taek Pae joined Gies this fall as a lecturer and as the director of the Margolis Market Information Lab. Taek comes to Gies from Meeder Investment Management, where he was a director of research. He teaches courses in investment & portfolio management and in data science and python for finance.
Oct 19
Why loose food sales may not be the perfect package
Ismail Kirci joined Gies in January as a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration. Ismail earned his PhD in operations management at the University of Texas at Dallas. At Gies, he is teaching courses in operations management and project management.
Oct 18
Understanding the rise of non-banking lenders in the GSE Mortgage Market
Zilong Liu comes to Gies this fall as a clinical assistant professor. Zilong earned a PhD in business administration from Kent State University, and he most recently worked in principal model validation and model risk management at Discover.
Oct 11
Pursuing collective intelligence with a singular focus
Pranav Gupta's research investigates the emergence of collective intelligence in global, virtual, and self-organized teams — what makes them work adaptively and how technology can augment their capacity for dynamic coordination — using lab experiments, archival data, and agent-based simulation models.
Oct 07
Funding from global (re)insurer, AXIS Capital, supports four new faculty projects
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has selected four faculty scholars for the 2022-2023 academic year to advance academic research on risk management and preparedness.
Oct 05
When companies change — exploring the forces that disrupt corporate inertia
Yusaku Takeda comes to Gies this fall from Harvard University, where he completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration. Yusaku’s research interests include firms’ strategic evolution and adaptation to changing social norms, socio-political climates, and technology.
Sep 30
Using financial statements to make tax forecasts a little less cloudy
Danielle Green joined Gies this fall as a teaching associate professor in the Department of Accountancy. Danielle holds a PhD in accounting from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in higher education administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Sep 28
Corporate highs — how marijuana legalization impacts firm innovation
Shagun Pant joins Gies as a teaching associate professor in the Department of Business Administration. Shagun spent the last 11 years at the University of Iowa, and her research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, innovation, and more.
Sep 21
Enemies at the gate — using web analytics to predict emerging competitors
Gautam Pant comes to Gies as a professor in the Department of Business Administration. Gautam spent the past 11 years at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business where he was a professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow as well as the director of graduate studies in business analytics.