The Gies Download

Featuring the business leaders, alumni, faculty, and students making an impact, the Gies Download podcast tells the story of Gies College of Business and of the thought leaders it fosters.

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Aug 16, 2023 Accountancy Alumni Business Administration Faculty Finance Student

PODCAST: Gies Chief Disruption Officer Robert Brunner

Robert Brunner is an astrophysicist with one of the coolest job titles in the world: Associate Dean for Innovation and Chief Disruption Officer at Gies College of Business. With a penchant for forward-thinking and for futuristic technologies like artificial intelligence, Chat GPT and blockchain, Robert is helping lead the College and its students into the unknown. It's a side of higher education that few other business schools even recognize, much less adopt.

 

 

Check out our previous episodes:

July 5, 2023 – Gies alumnus and namesake Larry Gies
June 2, 2023 – Gies professor and travel expert
Mark Wolters
Mar. 30, 2023 – Gies alumna and CTS Impact Founder
Julie Scott
Dec.19, 2022 – Poets&Quants Founder
John Byrne
Dec. 2, 2022 – Dean Emeritus
Larry DeBrock on his long career, passion for teaching
Oct. 31, 2022 – Undergraduate admissions at Gies with
Kelly Janssen
Sept. 14, 2022 – Executive Associate Dean
Brooke Elliott on online education, gender barriers, and more
July 11, 2022 – iVenture Director
Manu Edakara on entrepreneurship at Gies
May 26, 2022 – Gies professor
Don Fullerton on environment and economy
May 4, 2022 – Secret Service agent turned iMBA student
Lucy Chang Evans
March 28, 2022 – Accounting professor
Nerissa Brown
Feb. 18, 2022 – Former Olympian
Brock Kreitzburg
Feb. 8, 2022 – SAA Executive Director
Jackie Price-Osafo
Nov. 19, 2021 – Marketing professor 
Tiffany White
Oct. 21, 2021 – Super Bowl champion 
Nick Allegretti
Sept. 8, 2021 – Dean 
Jeff Brown
Aug. 24, 2021 – Athletic Director 
Josh Whitman