W. Brooke Elliott is poised to shape the future of business education in her new role as dean of the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business and the first woman to hold this position in the college's century-old history.
Recognizing the need for a more dynamic and accessible approach to business education, Gies College of Business is shattering the mold by offering stackable credentials that empower learners to build their skillset progressively, at their own pace.
You might expect that managers at local stores know best about how to price products to improve sales revenue locally, but new research by Gies professor Iris Wang suggests that may not always be the case.
Behind the scenes is the school’s large Teaching & Learning unit, which now includes over 60 full- and part-time staff working in this area, doing everything from video production to graphic design and learning design.
The paper, coauthored by Gies professor Maria Rodas, is based on a series of taste-test experiments, each involving a nearly universally-beloved food: cheese, coffee, and, of course, chocolate.
Already successful in their careers, Jon A. Anderson and EunSoo Choe sought out non-degree courses to add more depth to their knowledge of mergers and acquisitions and taxation.
In the paper, “ChatGPT, Help! I Am in Financial Trouble,” Professor Sterling Raskie and his coauthors find that at first glance, ChatGPT’s advice appeared reasonable. But when they dug in, that advice seemed to be less helpful than it initially seemed.
Mitch Daniels, former two-term governor of Indiana and the 12th president of Purdue University, spoke to a crowd of nearly 700 at Foellinger Auditorium on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on October 2, 2024.
Dmitriy Muravyev graduated from Gies Business with his PhD in 2012. Now he is back as an associate professor of finance and Conrad W. and Shirley A. Hewitt Faculty Fellow, ready to teach and continue the research excellence he experienced as a student.
Gies researchers Deepak Somaya and Joseph Mahoney expected that if cheating helped the Astros win, it would manifest in a bigger home field batting advantage during the cheating period. However, they found no such effect in the data.
Associate Professor of Finance Mathias Kronlund was a faculty member at Gies from 2012-2020, after which he spent four years at Tulane University before finding his way back to Gies this year.