Dec 09
Luxury brands are struggling to successfully incorporate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their brand platform. Now for the first time, Gies professor Carlos Torelli is proposing a solution that could help the world’s most luxurious brands join the CSR movement.
Dec 05
Making mental healthcare easily accessible to anyone is what led Rima Seiilova-Olson (MSTM ’10) to become co-founder of Kintsugi Mindful Wellness, talk therapy software that combines machine learning and voice journaling to tackle stress, anxiety, depression and loss.
Dec 04
Gies College of Business alumna Kelly Loeffler (BA '92) has been appointed to the US Senate. When Loeffler is sworn in, she will become the second female senator in Georgia history.
Dec 03
iVenture Accelerator Director Manu Edakara and leaders from iVenture-supported startups MakerGirl, Cast21, and Optivolt Labs received this year’s coveted honor, which recognizes innovators under the age of 30 across 20 industries who are “changing the world forever.”
Nov 21
Yuqian Xu studied the online-to-offline crowdsourced platform, also known as the “Uber model” for package fulfillment, and found that a simple targeted incentive mechanism can increase service capacity without incurring additional costs.
Nov 20
Your preference for name-brand products over private-label versions may say a lot about your views on society and your personal values, according to a new study co-authored by Gies College of Business professor Carlos Torelli.
Nov 14
The FDA has awarded more than $1.7 million to researchers from five universities, including the University of Illinois, for a study designed to help the agency better understand how pharmaceutical manufacturing processes can be improved.
Nov 06
Global social media giant Facebook recently unveiled a rebrand - aimed at more clearly bringing its other services under the Facebook umbrella - a risky move according to a Gies expert on global brands.
Nov 01
Motorola Solutions took the stage for the Fall 2019 Hallene Lecture, hosted by The Hoeft Technology & Management (T&M) Program. The lecture centered around high-velocity assisted intelligence.
Oct 31
The Hoeft Technology & Management Program has announced that Anheuser-Busch, one of the world’s largest beverage companies, has become a corporate affiliate of the program.
Oct 30
Chirantan “CJ” Desai (MBA and Masters in CS ‘95) feels fortunate to be part of this journey that might never have gotten started without that first scholarship and the support he received at Illinois.
Oct 21
Gies College of Business Dean Jeffrey R. Brown joined more than 60 business school deans, CEOs, and industry leaders from across the United States in urging the federal government to make major changes to the nation’s immigration policy.