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 16

Unnati Narang Wins 2026 AMA TechSIG Young Scholar Award

The award is conferred annually by the Technology Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association to an early-career researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the theory and practice of technology-focused marketing.

Business Administration Faculty Research in Education

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 11

Can discount grocery apps help fight hunger? New research shows promise

Study shows one Flashfood store reduces a county-level food insecurity rate by 0.090 percentage points, translating into approximately 860 people per county or 146,000 people across all the counties where Flashfood operates.

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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

Super Bowl ads key as brands chase last shared moment in media

Super Bowl LX once again proved that the ads have become an event of their own, with brands spending eye-popping sums to grab the attention of more than 100 million viewers watching at the same time.

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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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Feb 04

Annual Workplace Wellbeing Report 2026 finds majority of US workers still languishing

Study adds new insights into how flourishing employees cope with workplace stressors and how work and ethical environments impact employee well-being.

Business Administration Faculty Research in Education

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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Jan 28

Using AI as co-founders, Gies students build real-world apps

Students in Vishal Sachdev's “AI Solopreneurship & Product Building” course ideate, code and publicly launch a web or mobile product in just 15 short weeks – using only AI tools.

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Jan 27

PODCAST: From the Pitch to the Boardroom: Lessons in Global Leadership

In studying 355 elite national soccer teams from around the globe, Gies Business Professor Mike Szymanski finds that teams led by multicultural managers enjoy an advantage in a sport where nations from every corner of the world collide.

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