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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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.

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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.

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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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Jan 21

Julia Fonseca wins 2025 Brattle Group First Prize for mortgage lock-in research

The Brattle Group Prizes in Corporate Finance recognize outstanding research published in The Journal of Finance, which is widely recognized as one of the foremost journals in its field.

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Jan 19

From ChatGPT-3.5 to 4.0: Follow-up study finds better math, same financial risks

A follow-up study testing ChatGPT-4.0 found it shows improved organization, fewer math errors, and slightly better risk awareness than version 3.5, but still gives flawed, poorly prioritized financial advice and sometimes misleading “false empathy.”

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Jan 14

EntreCorps proves mutually beneficial for startups and consultants

Housed in the Origin Ventures Office of Entrepreneurship in Gies College of Business, EntreCorps provides valuable consulting work at no charge for startups within the University of Illinois ecosystem.

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Jan 12

Ambulance Taxis: Curbing Medicare fraud without hurting patient care

Medicare has spent billions on nonemergency ambulance rides for dialysis patients, many of which were fraudulent. New research from Gies Business shows that prior authorization requirements dramatically reduced this abuse without compromising patient care.

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Jan 08

Illinois students launch InvoGenix, an AI startup tackling $600M healthcare paperwork crisis

Poets&Quants agrees with InvoGenix’s potential, recently naming it one of the nation’s Most Disruptive Business School Startups of 2025.

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Jan 07

Study: Borrowing fee is the variable that debunks theory that options predict future stock returns

Gies Business researchers find that the well-known ability of options-based signals to predict stock returns disappears in real-world trading once the often-overlooked stock borrow fee is included.

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Dec 29

Reichard Real Estate Academy students find purpose and a path at Gies Business

The Academy provides high-achieving students with specialized courses, additional extracurricular programming, and powerful networking opportunities to jumpstart a purpose-driven career in commercial real estate.

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