Gies College of Business

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Faculty Research

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Podcasts Research

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.

Faculty Finance Research

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Research

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Faculty Finance Research

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Faculty Research

The problem with treating your organization like a machine

Jul 08, 2026

Stop implementing culture and start designing conditions

Business Administration Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Research Student

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.

Alumni Business Administration Faculty Research

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.

Faculty Finance Research

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.

Accountancy Business Administration Faculty Finance Research

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.

Accountancy Faculty Research

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.

Business Administration Faculty Research

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