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.
From ChatGPT-3.5 to 4.0: Follow-up study finds better math, same financial risks
Jan 19, 2026
A follow-up study testing ChatGPT-4.0 found it shows improved organization, fewer math errors, and slightly better risk awareness than version 3.5, but still gives flawed, poorly prioritized financial advice and sometimes misleading “false empathy.”
EntreCorps proves mutually beneficial for startups and consultants
Jan 14, 2026
Housed in the Origin Ventures Office of Entrepreneurship in Gies College of Business, EntreCorps provides valuable consulting work at no charge for startups within the University of Illinois ecosystem.
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Ambulance Taxis: Curbing Medicare fraud without hurting patient care
Jan 12, 2026
Medicare has spent billions on nonemergency ambulance rides for dialysis patients, many of which were fraudulent. New research from Gies Business shows that prior authorization requirements dramatically reduced this abuse without compromising patient care.
Illinois students launch InvoGenix, an AI startup tackling $600M healthcare paperwork crisis
Jan 08, 2026
Poets&Quants agrees with InvoGenix’s potential, recently naming it one of the nation’s Most Disruptive Business School Startups of 2025.
Study: Borrowing fee is the variable that debunks theory that options predict future stock returns
Jan 07, 2026
Gies Business researchers find that the well-known ability of options-based signals to predict stock returns disappears in real-world trading once the often-overlooked stock borrow fee is included.
Reichard Real Estate Academy students find purpose and a path at Gies Business
Dec 29, 2025
The Academy provides high-achieving students with specialized courses, additional extracurricular programming, and powerful networking opportunities to jumpstart a purpose-driven career in commercial real estate.
Gies Conversations series welcomes Lincoln International Managing Director and Partner Brad Keyworth
Dec 22, 2025
The series is a BUS 401 capstone event designed to connect learners with alumni leaders who speak candidly about life beyond graduation and their path to purpose.
Love Like Sean: Gies Business alumnus, family honors son’s legacy with scholarship
Dec 16, 2025
Sean Richards was a gifted, kind-hearted boy whose life and legacy inspired his family to create the Love Like Sean Foundation, dedicated to spreading joy and compassion after his tragic passing. Through the foundation and a new $1 million scholarship at Gies Business, his family hopes to support students who lead with empathy and character, ensuring Sean’s enduring impact on others.
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PODCAST: Assistant Dean Andrew Allen talks Experiential Learning
Dec 03, 2025
In the latest episode of the Gies Download, Assistant Dean Andrew Allen shares how experiential learning is embedded into every year of the student journey — transforming education into action and helping students build meaningful skills before they ever graduate.
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Satchell, the “Can-Do” man from Kansas, joins Gies Business
Nov 03, 2025
Teaching Assistant Professor of Finance Jason Satchell brings real-world investment experience and a passion for teaching to Gies College of Business, where he hopes to inspire students to succeed.
How to build a legacy: Dean Elliott, Larry Gies team up to help run honors seminar course
Oct 31, 2025
Learners have direct involvement with planning and executing each class period, taking turns moderating discussion with invited guest speakers while students in the audience research and submit questions in advance of the speaker’s visit.
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Gies Business study confirms growing antitrust concerns in the dialysis industry
Oct 27, 2025
Study reveals that nearly 80% of U.S. dialysis centers are owned by just two companies, raising concerns about market concentration and physician self-dealing, as many doctors have financial ties to the facilities.
How COVID-19 reshaped the future of social security
Oct 20, 2025
A new study found that excess deaths from COVID-19 reduced future Social Security obligations by $205 billion. However, these fiscal "savings" highlight the profound human cost of the pandemic and do little to ease the overall strain on government finances or Social Security’s long-term solvency.
Sehy shows sometimes biggest leaps lead to best rewards
Oct 17, 2025
Ally Sehy rejoined her alma mater this fall as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of finance, where she hopes to help students connect the dots — linking the skills students are acquiring with the career goals they hope to achieve.
The Quantum You Want: Qubits, forecasts, and the next tech revolution
Oct 16, 2025
Think today’s tech is powerful? Imagine a computer that doesn’t just calculate faster, but thinks in a fundamentally different way—unlocking secrets from the weather to the molecules that make us.
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