Gies News Articles

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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Nov 26

Kerri Elson: MAS degree drives client education, community focus

Elson was recently promoted to an Investment Advisor Representative at the Bloomington, IL office of Virtus Financial Group, where she conducts complex tax research and provides guidance for holistic wealth planning.

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Oct 31

How to build a legacy: Dean Elliott, Larry Gies team up to help run honors seminar course

Learners have direct involvement with planning and executing each class period, taking turns moderating discussion with invited guest speakers while students in the audience research and submit questions in advance of the speaker’s visit.

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Oct 16

The Quantum You Want: Qubits, forecasts, and the next tech revolution

Think today’s tech is powerful? Imagine a computer that doesn’t just calculate faster, but thinks in a fundamentally different way—unlocking secrets from the weather to the molecules that make us.

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Sep 29

PODCAST: Gies Business alum and Culver's CEO Julie Fussner

Culver's CEO Julie Fussner talks about her unexpected path from marketing to the C-suite. From discovering a passion for organizational behavior to navigating uncertainty after graduation, she shares how a strong foundation at Gies Business helped guide her journey.

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