Gies News Articles
Oct 31
PODCAST: Undergraduate admissions at Gies
As Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment for Gies College of Business, Kelly Janssen provides strategic leadership and management to engage, recruit, and yield strong, diverse cohorts of students.
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Oct 27
Evans charting a new course via the iMSA
Margaret Evans comes to Gies as an instructor in the Department of Accountancy after graduating from the iMSA program in 2019. Margaret is assisting with ACCY 501 & ACCY 502 in the iMSA program and teaching ACCY 501 for MSF students.
Oct 25
Missing the mark — why target-date funds may not be the best option for investors
Taek Pae joined Gies this fall as a lecturer and as the director of the Margolis Market Information Lab. Taek comes to Gies from Meeder Investment Management, where he was a director of research. He teaches courses in investment & portfolio management and in data science and python for finance.
Oct 19
Why loose food sales may not be the perfect package
Ismail Kirci joined Gies in January as a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration. Ismail earned his PhD in operations management at the University of Texas at Dallas. At Gies, he is teaching courses in operations management and project management.
Oct 18
Understanding the rise of non-banking lenders in the GSE Mortgage Market
Zilong Liu comes to Gies this fall as a clinical assistant professor. Zilong earned a PhD in business administration from Kent State University, and he most recently worked in principal model validation and model risk management at Discover.
Oct 14
Turning tomorrow’s accountants into agents of positive change
Ed Rogowski joined Gies this fall as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Accountancy. Ed is a Gies alumnus who is a CPA and began his career in 1986 at Arthur Andersen and has been the chief audit executive reporting to audit committees at three Fortune 500 companies, including United Airlines.
Oct 14
Gies partners with Google to offer Financial Analysis specialization
Gies Business announced it will offer a new educational program, "Financial Analysis - Skills for Success", to complement Google’s Career Certificate in Data Analytics.
Oct 14
Gies partners with Google to offer Financial Analysis specialization
Gies Business announced it will offer a new educational program, "Financial Analysis - Skills for Success", to complement Google’s Career Certificate in Data Analytics.
Oct 12
The Gies Gift: Catalyst of a Bold Transformation
The Gies announcement in 2017 unleashed a wave of innovation. It catalyzed an unprecedented investment in creating life-changing access for learners, sparked the unmatched growth of its online graduate programs, and gave the College a newfound financial strength.
Oct 12
Gies honors Carlos J. Torelli with the Anthony J. Petullo Business Administration Professorship
Torelli has served as Head of the Department of Business Administration since 2021 and has centered the department’s priorities on excellence, equity, and efficiency.
Oct 11
Pursuing collective intelligence with a singular focus
Pranav Gupta's research investigates the emergence of collective intelligence in global, virtual, and self-organized teams — what makes them work adaptively and how technology can augment their capacity for dynamic coordination — using lab experiments, archival data, and agent-based simulation models.
Oct 07
Funding from global (re)insurer, AXIS Capital, supports four new faculty projects
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has selected four faculty scholars for the 2022-2023 academic year to advance academic research on risk management and preparedness.