Oct 12
New building will house larger classrooms, expanded facilities for Gies’ eLearning team and the Magelli Office of Experiential Learning, more offices for the College’s growing faculty, and additional production studios for its world-class online learning offerings.
Sep 14
Gies College of Business is ranked as a Top 10 public undergraduate business program, according to the latest rankings released by US News & World Report.
Aug 18
Dr. Denise Lewin Loyd has been named the first associate dean for equity at Gies College of Business. In this new position, Loyd will help Gies become a leader among business schools in diversity, equity, and inclusion by leading the College’s DEI strategy.
Aug 13
Poets&Quants ranked the Gies Business iMBA as the world’s #1 biggest business school innovation of the decade. Designed from the ground up and launched in 2016, the iMBA has grown to nearly 3,000 students while maintaining a 98% satisfaction rate.
Aug 11
Gies College of Business alumna Danielle Pierce (ACCY ’01) predicts that when it comes to the affordable housing crisis in this country, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Jun 30
Gies Business has decided to publish a comprehensive collection of its own data and metrics of success, rather than participating in traditional online MBA rankings that are designed for different kinds of programs.
Jun 23
The University of Illinois-Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics is updating its leading-edge data analytics offerings by releasing two additional courses: Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I and Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy II
May 26
When Gies Business alumnus Carter Cofield (ACCY '13, MAS '14) decided to begin donating five percent of all revenue from his business to various nonprofits supporting entrepreneurship, The Gray Matter Experience was first on his list.
May 18
Responding to thousands of invaluable internships cancelled because of COVID-19, two U of I alumni have created a way to simultaneously support their fellow Illini and the many small businesses impacted by the pandemic throughout Illinois.
May 13
Gies College of Business alumnus Sam Skinner (ACCY ’60) has been tapped to co-chair Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 Recovery Taskforce. Skinner leads the task force that advises city government on planning for economic recovery in the wake of the pandemic.
May 08
Gies College of Business is expanding its commitment to delivering life-changing access to business education by launching a new online option for the Master of Science in Management degree (iMSM), pending board of trustees approval.
Apr 27
Chris Petersen (MBA ’09) and Dave Chonowski (MBA ’09) are the co-founders of a new company called Futurexecs, a career accelerator helping ambitious business leaders who feel like they’re stuck in “career purgatory” advance to higher levels more quickly.