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.
Bucheli wins Richard M. Hodgetts Award for work in management history
Sep 10, 2026
The award recognizes scholars who have made substantive contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service in the field of management history.
Study shows that AI can lower the cost and increase the speed of clinical drug trials
Sep 08, 2026
Generative AI models could help researchers use real-world patient data to identify promising treatments more quickly and potentially reduce the cost and time of clinical drug trials, while giving human experts a transparent way to validate AI’s reasoning.
Karneisha Wolfe receives 2026 Wildman Medal Award
Sep 03, 2026
Wolfe and her coauthors' award-winning work finds that committees are increasingly assigned responsibilities beyond their traditional role, which can improve governance while also creating overwork, weaker oversight, and a “box-checking” mentality.
PODCAST: Ambulance Taxis: Curbing Medicare Fraud Without Hurting Patients
Sep 01, 2026
In this episode of Research Reverb, a study from Gies Business economist Riley League showed that upfront authorization slashed fraudulent nonemergency ambulance rides without any impact on patient care.
Jiekun Huang honored with Richard S. Williams Endowed Professorship of Finance
Aug 26, 2026
Huang’s research focuses on how economic agents—including investors, corporate executives, and political figures—and the interactions among them shape the informational role of financial markets and corporate decision-making.
What picking pay peers reveals about executive labor market
Aug 13, 2026
New research from Gies Business shows how the peer firms companies choose to benchmark CEO pay can reveal insights into the executive labor market and help explain hiring and compensation decisions.
New Gies Business Research Says Going Green Pays Off – If You Do It Right
Jul 30, 2026
Research from Gies College of Business finds that firms that engage employees in environmental goals and plan for long term climate risks tend to outperform peers. Those efforts, however, only pay off when they are built on strong measurement and disclosure practices.
Why improving audit quality is as much about the people as the process
Jul 27, 2026
Improving audit quality isn't just about new regulations; it's about getting people inside accounting firms to embrace change. Researchers found that quality control leaders face greater challenges navigating internal resistance, competing priorities, and implementation hurdles than external regulatory demands.
Brown wins ARIA's Robert I. Mehr Award for research reshaping Social Security policy
Jul 23, 2026
Ten years later, the paper's core finding – that something as simple as a framing choice can measurably shift a decision worth tens of thousands of dollars in lifetime income – continues to inform how policymakers, financial advisors, and researchers think about presenting retirement information.
Bridging the gap between academia and policy
Jul 20, 2026
New research from Gies Business finds accounting standard setters value academic research but face barriers accessing and applying it in policymaking.