Jan 21
A team of University of Illinois researchers estimated the mortality costs associated with air pollution in the U.S. by developing and applying a novel machine learning-based method to estimate the life-years lost and cost associated with air pollution exposure.
Jan 09
W. Brooke Elliott has been named associate dean at Gies College of Business, a role in which she will oversee the strategy and programs in the online space, including the iMBA, iMSA, MOOCs, and the College’s new initiatives in lifelong learning and enterprise partnerships.
Jan 02
New research co-authored by Gies College of Business professor Mili Mehrotra suggests striking the right balance between provider incentives and patient incentives can increase healthcare program performance by as much as 20 times.
Dec 20
Gies College of Business is once again ranked as a Top 10 public undergraduate business program in the nation, according to the latest rankings released by Poets&Quants.
Dec 16
Six extraordinary faculty members at Gies College of Business have been recognized as winners of the 2019-20 Dean’s Impact Award. The award recognizes outstanding faculty for their contributions to the College.
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 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.”
Dec 02
A new study coauthored by Gies College of Business scholar Kevin Jackson suggests "connectors" can help improve the work experience and ultimately reduce turnover when strategically hired and placed in certain group settings.
Nov 25
In attempting to predict financial misreporting, what firms are saying may be more important than how they’re saying it, according to new research from three Gies College of Business scholars.
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 19
The University of Illinois-Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics has received overwhelming worldwide interest in its First Course in Foundations of Data Analytics, with more than 1,100 requests for download from 48 states and 36 countries.