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 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 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 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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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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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 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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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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