News Articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feb 03
Study: Roommate assignment can play important role in improving patient outcomes
Study finds placing patients with roommates who have Alzheimer’s or Alzheimer’s-related diseases (AD/ADRD) leads to a 14% higher 90-day mortality rate overall compared with placing them in private rooms.
Feb 02
Qiping Xu Wins Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize for greenwashing research
The Dimensional Fund Advisors Prizes are among the most prestigious in the field of finance. Winners are selected by the associate editors of the Journal of Finance, and the Distinguished Paper Prize carries with it a $10,000 award.
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.
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.
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.