Gies College of Business

Gies Business News and Stories

Explore the ideas, people, and impact shaping Gies College of Business. From faculty research and student experiences to alumni achievements and donor impact, these stories highlight how our community is advancing business knowledge and creating real-world change.

From semester to seven Days: How Agentic AI is changing the pace of finance education

Jul 01, 2026

Gies Business students use agentic AI and multi-agent systems to build trading platforms, analyze markets, and gain finance skills for an AI-driven future.

Faculty Finance Student

MSBA research examines bias in AI résumé screening

Jun 29, 2026

A Gies Business MSBA student studied how AI-powered résumé screening tools evaluate candidates and found career gaps may negatively affect applicant scores.

Business Administration Research Student

iVenture alumni DeepWalk listed among Forbes’ Accessibility 200 list

Jun 25, 2026

Forbes Accessibility 200 highlights products, software, and services that allow people with disabilities to have equitable access to information, content, public spaces, employment, and life experiences.

Alumni Entrepreneurship

iVenture Cohort 12 building the future with artificial intelligence

Jun 24, 2026

iVenture Accelerator is an immersive program for student founders that accelerates growth with a full-time summer sprint and 11 months of continuous education throughout the academic year.

Entrepreneurship Student

The benefits of being an outsider in trade wars

Jun 22, 2026

When two giants fight a trade war, the real winners might be playing from the sidelines.

Alumni Business Administration Faculty Research

PODCAST: Business leader and Gies Business namesake Larry Gies

Jun 17, 2026

Larry Gies discusses leadership, philanthropy, innovation, and the future of business education.

Accountancy Alumni Business Administration Faculty Finance Podcasts Student

Fonseca named Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research

Jun 15, 2026

Fonseca is an economist focused on household, development, and labor finance. Her research examines how finance shapes our labor, jobs, and mobility.

Faculty Finance Research

Gies Business announces first class of AI Faculty Fellows

Jun 11, 2026

The program supports our world-class faculty in developing discipline-specific AI curriculum content, and in designing and testing new models for teaching, learning, assessment, and research.

Accountancy Business Administration Faculty Finance Research

iVenture alumnus DoubleSpot modernizes recreation management for campuses and communities

Jun 10, 2026

Inspired by his internship with the Los Angeles Dodgers and supported through the iVenture Accelerator, Sean Chang built software that streamlines scheduling, registrations, events, rentals, and facility operations into one platform.

Alumni Entrepreneurship Student

Why sharing failures can make you better at your job

Jun 08, 2026

Gies Business scholars Clara Chen and Laura Wang find that employees who are encouraged to openly share their failures are more willing to take creative risks and often perform better on challenging tasks.

Accountancy Faculty Research

Do FTC affiliate disclosures activate persuasion knowledge and build credibility on YouTube?

Jun 03, 2026

Study finds disclosure policy resulted in an overall decline in user engagement. But, paradoxically, affiliated content with disclosures had higher engagement than affiliated content without it.

Business Administration Faculty Research

Beardsley, Gao, Lagaras named Gies Advanced Study Scholars

Jun 01, 2026

The Gies Business Advanced Study Scholars program recognizes promising assistant professors whose research track record to date has proven to be outstanding.

Accountancy Business Administration Faculty Finance Research

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