Chen joins Gies Business with mission to make tax more accessible
Sep 11, 2026
Former Deloitte tax consultant Shannon Chen joined Gies Business as an assistant professor of accountancy, seeking a career with lasting purpose. Through award-winning teaching, she makes complex tax concepts approachable and helps students see accounting as a path to opportunity.
Bucheli wins Richard M. Hodgetts Award for work in management history
Sep 10, 2026
The award recognizes scholars who have made substantive contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service in the field of management history.
Study shows that AI can lower the cost and increase the speed of clinical drug trials
Sep 08, 2026
Generative AI models could help researchers use real-world patient data to identify promising treatments more quickly and potentially reduce the cost and time of clinical drug trials, while giving human experts a transparent way to validate AI’s reasoning.
Karneisha Wolfe receives 2026 Wildman Medal Award
Sep 03, 2026
Wolfe and her coauthors' award-winning work finds that committees are increasingly assigned responsibilities beyond their traditional role, which can improve governance while also creating overwork, weaker oversight, and a “box-checking” mentality.
PODCAST: Ambulance Taxis: Curbing Medicare Fraud Without Hurting Patients
Sep 01, 2026
In this episode of Research Reverb, a study from Gies Business economist Riley League showed that upfront authorization slashed fraudulent nonemergency ambulance rides without any impact on patient care.
Jiekun Huang honored with Richard S. Williams Endowed Professorship of Finance
Aug 26, 2026
Huang’s research focuses on how economic agents—including investors, corporate executives, and political figures—and the interactions among them shape the informational role of financial markets and corporate decision-making.
What picking pay peers reveals about executive labor market
Aug 13, 2026
New research from Gies Business shows how the peer firms companies choose to benchmark CEO pay can reveal insights into the executive labor market and help explain hiring and compensation decisions.
New Gies Business Research Says Going Green Pays Off – If You Do It Right
Jul 30, 2026
Research from Gies College of Business finds that firms that engage employees in environmental goals and plan for long term climate risks tend to outperform peers. Those efforts, however, only pay off when they are built on strong measurement and disclosure practices.
Why improving audit quality is as much about the people as the process
Jul 27, 2026
Improving audit quality isn't just about new regulations; it's about getting people inside accounting firms to embrace change. Researchers found that quality control leaders face greater challenges navigating internal resistance, competing priorities, and implementation hurdles than external regulatory demands.
Brown wins ARIA's Robert I. Mehr Award for research reshaping Social Security policy
Jul 23, 2026
Ten years later, the paper's core finding – that something as simple as a framing choice can measurably shift a decision worth tens of thousands of dollars in lifetime income – continues to inform how policymakers, financial advisors, and researchers think about presenting retirement information.
Bridging the gap between academia and policy
Jul 20, 2026
New research from Gies Business finds accounting standard setters value academic research but face barriers accessing and applying it in policymaking.
Testing the evidence: Revisiting research on soccer success
Jul 16, 2026
A Gies Business replication study confirms that coaches with multicultural backgrounds consistently outperform their peers in global soccer competitions. The findings held up across a much larger dataset, extended to women's football, and reinforced the value of multicultural leaders in diverse, international environments.
The problem with treating your organization like a machine
Jul 08, 2026
Stop implementing culture and start designing conditions
When overthinking strategy can cost you
Jul 06, 2026
A new paper from Gies Business professor Nathan Yang asks when strategic thinking helps firms – and when it makes them spend too much chasing the wrong threat.
MSBA research examines bias in AI résumé screening
Jun 29, 2026
A Gies Business MSBA student studied how AI-powered résumé screening tools evaluate candidates and found career gaps may negatively affect applicant scores.
The benefits of being an outsider in trade wars
Jun 22, 2026
When two giants fight a trade war, the real winners might be playing from the sidelines.
Fonseca named Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research
Jun 15, 2026
Fonseca is an economist focused on household, development, and labor finance. Her research examines how finance shapes our labor, jobs, and mobility.
Gies Business announces first class of AI Faculty Fellows
Jun 11, 2026
The program supports our world-class faculty in developing discipline-specific AI curriculum content, and in designing and testing new models for teaching, learning, assessment, and research.
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Why sharing failures can make you better at your job
Jun 08, 2026
Gies Business scholars Clara Chen and Laura Wang find that employees who are encouraged to openly share their failures are more willing to take creative risks and often perform better on challenging tasks.
Do FTC affiliate disclosures activate persuasion knowledge and build credibility on YouTube?
Jun 03, 2026
Study finds disclosure policy resulted in an overall decline in user engagement. But, paradoxically, affiliated content with disclosures had higher engagement than affiliated content without it.