How AI chatbots streamline Gies Business student experience
Apr 09, 2026
Gies Business is integrating AI chatbots into courses to provide students with instant, reliable answers to questions, reducing repetitive inquiries and freeing faculty to focus on deeper teaching and mentorship.
How VR is shaping human-centered experiences in the Age of AI
Apr 08, 2026
Students at Gies Business participated in an immersive virtual reality experience about a Syrian refugee camp to help them develop empathy as part of a human-centered design course.
Investment Management Academy posts strong fall gains, outperforming S&P 600
Mar 31, 2026
The Investment Management Academy (IMA), a program within the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business, returned 5.66%, outperforming the S&P 600 by 2.06%.
Gies Business MSF transforming finance foundations into elite career paths
Mar 27, 2026
Meet four alumni who successfully transitioned from their undergraduate majors into specialized roles at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions.
PODCAST: The Pollution Shell Game - Why Divestment Doesn’t Always Leave the Planet Greener
Mar 24, 2026
Firms can sell their dirty plants but keep using that plant's output. Gies Business Professor Qiping Xu reveals the "cosmetic redrawing" of corporate boundaries and why divestment sometimes fails the planet.
Gies Business ranked #4 public business school by Poets&Quants
Mar 23, 2026
Gies Business is ranked #4 among public business schools and #15 overall. For this ranking, Poets&Quants considers factors such as admissions standards, the college experience, and career outcomes.
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Orange & Blue Ventures to collaborate with Illinois Ventures
Mar 17, 2026
Gies College of Business is teaming up with one of the largest and longest-running university-based venture capital firms in the country – Illinois Ventures – to offer students a new hands-on learning experience.
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Leading Midwest research universities launch innovation hub in San Francisco
Mar 10, 2026
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has joined seven other leading Midwestern research universities in launching Third Coast Foundry, a collaborative San Francisco-based innovation hub.
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What CES 2026 Reveals About the Future of Business Education
Mar 09, 2026
CES has always been a place to see what’s new – and it was – but this year it felt a little less like a glimpse into the future and more like a preview of what’s about to feel routine.
Morningstar contributes nearly $5 million to Gies Business, brings real-world investing closer to classroom
Mar 05, 2026
The collaboration includes an in-kind contribution from Morningstar that provides professional grade access to Morningstar Direct, hands-on training with real investment data used by analysts worldwide, and scholarship support for Gies Business students.
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PODCAST: How Gig Work Fuels Entrepreneurship
Feb 24, 2026
In this episode of Research Reverb, Professor Spyros Lagaras digs into his research exploring how common it is for gig economy workers to use that experience as a pathway to entrepreneurship.
How Gies Business is keeping curriculum current in a changing world
Feb 23, 2026
At Gies Business, we’ve taken a new approach to curriculum innovation to ensure that we are meeting the needs of our learners and the workforce they soon will join.
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Gies Business expert says the tariff fight is just getting started
Feb 20, 2026
Gies Business professor cautions the Supreme Court decision on tariffs is only a temporary hurdle, since the administration can pivot to other broad trade-law authorities to keep tariffs in play.
PODCAST: Why erasing small medical debts didn't improve financial health
Feb 10, 2026
Is erasing medical debt from credit reports just a placebo? In this episode of Research Reverb, Gies Business economist Julia Fonseca discusses research in which she and her coauthors found that withholding small medical debts from reporting had no impact on credit scores or decisions.
Who's Gonna Drive You Home?
Feb 09, 2026
Replacing a job is different from assisting with one. Full replacement implies something closer to autonomy than augmentation. It means handling not just the common cases, but the exceptions.
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Gies Business launches U of I’s first student-led venture capital fund
Feb 05, 2026
Thanks to a generous gift from Illinois alumni Douglas and Deborah Ackerman, Gies College of Business is pleased to announce the launch of a new student-led venture capital investing program – Orange & Blue Ventures.
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Study: Roommate assignment can play important role in improving patient outcomes
Feb 03, 2026
Study finds placing patients with roommates who have Alzheimer’s or Alzheimer’s-related diseases (AD/ADRD) leads to a 14% higher 90-day mortality rate overall compared with placing them in private rooms.
Qiping Xu Wins Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize for greenwashing research
Feb 02, 2026
The Dimensional Fund Advisors Prizes are among the most prestigious in the field of finance. Winners are selected by the associate editors of the Journal of Finance, and the Distinguished Paper Prize carries with it a $10,000 award.
Bill Chase brings C-suite experience to the Leighton Lecture on Ethics and Responsibility
Jan 29, 2026
Chase outlined how Abbott, a large and diversified healthcare company, spun off its research-based pharmaceutical business into AbbVie, and the challenges that process involved.
Julia Fonseca wins 2025 Brattle Group First Prize for mortgage lock-in research
Jan 21, 2026
The Brattle Group Prizes in Corporate Finance recognize outstanding research published in The Journal of Finance, which is widely recognized as one of the foremost journals in its field.