Oct 21
Co-linking: How crossing boundaries can help innovators reach the goal line
Zack Kertcher's research focuses on examining innovation and change in organizations, and considering research approaches that combine big quantitative data with thick qualitative data to improve insight.
Oct 19
Gies launches Illinois Strategic Organizations Initiative
Under the direction of Professor William Ocasio, ISOI addresses unmet demand by academic communities and corporations for interdisciplinary research in strategic organizational design and management.
Oct 13
The surprising upside of state-owned enterprise
Carlos Inoue is an assistant professor of business administration whose research interests include strategic management, organizational governance in the public interest, knowledge workers, and health care.
Oct 08
Bursting the Beginner’s Bubble: Preventing the Misbeliefs That Lead to Big Mistakes
Assistant Professor Carmen Sanchez researches the development of misbeliefs, specifically the quality of people’s decisions and what psychological processes lead people to form false beliefs about themselves and the world around them.
Oct 05
Creating new marketing mechanisms for a changing digital world
Gies Assistant Professor Sameer Mehta's research interests include how data is exchanged and designing mechanisms for technology marketplaces.
Sep 30
COVID, Clusters and the Climate of Constant Change
Min Jung Kim, assistant professor of business administration, researches technological innovation, knowledge spillovers, industry clusters, and employee mobility. Before joining Gies, Kim earned her PhD in business administration from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
Sep 30
How Alibaba said “open sesame” to a powerful new marketing tool
Assistant Professor Brian Han's research focuses on designing large-scale field experiments and developing data-driven optimization to explore innovative business models and link data to decision-making.
Sep 23
New research adds “weight” to the vice tax debate
Gies Assistant Professor Ying Bao is researching a new breed of “sin taxes” on vice foods that are high in sugar, fat, or sodium - documenting how the purchase pattern and price sensitivity vary across obesity status.
Sep 22
How information disclosure affects decision making
Gies Instructor of Accountancy Jalal Sani researches real effects of disclosure, information acquisition and disclosure, organization of firms, and financial reporting quality. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.