“Gies College of Business is a special place," said Brown, who announced this academic year will be his last as Dean. “The last eight years as dean have been the most rewarding years of my entire career."
Among the specialty rankings by US News & World Report, Gies has 7 programs inside the nation's Top 20. Accounting is once again ranked No. 2 in the nation.
The program identifies and supports faculty who undertake innovative learning activities and develop educational materials that advance the Colleges commitment to fostering excellence in business education.
Coauthored by Gies associate professor Fei Du, Creative Data Analytics: Computational Recipes to Gain Insights into Businesses is a comprehensive, app-driven textbook that makes data analytics-driven storytelling more accessible to students.
Thanks to a generous gift from Chicago-based Lincoln International and a number of its leaders, the atrium inside the Business Instructional Facility (BIF) will be named the Lincoln International Atrium.
For students who aren’t majoring in business but decide they want a business education, the College offers a fully online business minor to introduce them to foundational business knowledge.
The Center, which was established in 2016, provides leading-edge ideas and curriculum materials that aim to revolutionize how schools teach business analytics to future business professionals.
Robert Brunner is an astrophysicist with one of the coolest job titles in the world: Associate Dean for Innovation and Chief Disruption Officer. 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.
Mask Network (MASK), a company focused on decentralizing the content on social media platforms, has donated 33,000 tokens of its cryptocurrency to invest in blockchain technology education and research at Gies College of Business.
Gies College of Business is always looking for ways to increase access to education, and the College has taken a major step forward in its commitments to access and inclusion by joining the Education Justice Project to bring business education to learners in the Danville Correctional Center.
From tutoring youth to starting a school in Chicago to a $150 million dollar gift to his alma mater, Larry Gies has always had a passion for making a positive impact on the world through education.