Gies News Articles

Feb 23

How Gies Business is keeping curriculum current in a changing world

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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Feb 19

Internal Audit to C-Suite: Gies alumni pioneering the path

A growing number of Gies alumni are rising from a role as an internal auditor into the C-Suite. Gies Business is strategically preparing and positioning its graduates for a similar journey.

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Feb 12

PODCAST: Marketing alum and Illini football standout Hank Beatty

In this episode of The Gies Download, former Illinois wide receiver and Academic All-American Hank Beatty - a Gies Business marketing alum - talks about his success in the classroom and on the football field, and explains why he sees a lot of similarities between the two.

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Feb 10

Turning Tech Experts into Global Leaders: How the Gies Business MSTM bridges business skills gap

Shubhendru Johri's trajectory – from a technical specialist in India to an Engagement Manager at KPMG in London – serves as a masterclass in how to bridge the gap between technical “how” and strategic “why.”

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Feb 09

Who's Gonna Drive You Home?

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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Feb 05

Gies Business launches U of I’s first student-led venture capital fund

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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Jan 29

Bill Chase brings C-suite experience to the Leighton Lecture on Ethics and Responsibility

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.

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Dec 22

Gies Conversations series welcomes Lincoln International Managing Director and Partner Brad Keyworth

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.

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Dec 18

Gies Business provides MBA alum the power to jumpstart energy systems company

PowerBox is designing an architecture that enables growth, the ability to scale to different dimensions, and that can universally convert and work with new energy sources.

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Dec 16

Love Like Sean: Gies Business alumnus, family honors son’s legacy with scholarship

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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Dec 09

Launch a high-growth healthcare tech career with a Gies Business master’s degree

Through focused, nine-month graduate degrees like the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) and the Master of Science in Management (MSM), Gies Business provides a fast track into high-impact roles in healthcare technology and consulting.

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Dec 03

PODCAST: Assistant Dean Andrew Allen talks Experiential Learning

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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