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In Gies College of Business, a passion for excellence drives how we learn, teach, research and engage in the business world. Accountancy, business, and finance curricula integrate with innovative methods and ideas to nurture leadership potential. Our faculty, students and alumni comprise an incomparable network of brilliant people setting the highest standards for leadership in the global economy. Explore our programs, our people and our ideas. Join us, and be part of a brilliant future. Your comments, links, photos, and videos are welcome here. All postings would be relevant to the College of Business community, are reviewed, and are public. While creative and inventive postings are most welcome, if you wouldn't share your comments with your family at a holiday dinner, you shouldn't post them here. We will remove any postings that are offensive, inappropriate, contain insults, illegal suggestions, attacks, commercial advertising, unsolicited self-promotion, SPAM, or solicitations. Comments posted here do not represent the opinions of Gies College of Business.

Another year of iConverge in the books 📚Tomorrow, it's game day! 🔸🔹
09/18/2026

Another year of iConverge in the books đź“š

Tomorrow, it's game day! 🔸🔹

A self-described “math nerd,” new faculty member Josh Mollner brings a passion for mathematical theory and a focus on so...
09/18/2026

A self-described “math nerd,” new faculty member Josh Mollner brings a passion for mathematical theory and a focus on solving real-world problems.

His research explores financial market design and market microstructure, from high-frequency trading and liquidity to the way retail orders move through today’s markets. Now, he’s bringing his theoretical expertise to Gies: https://ow.ly/CSpp50ZPhFG

09/18/2026

Gies Business, Coursera, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign came together to celebrate the iMBA 10th Anniversary during iConverge!

Here's to the next ten ➡️➡️

U.S. household debt is more than a credit card story. Gies professor Avantika Pal's research points to the growing use o...
09/17/2026

U.S. household debt is more than a credit card story.

Gies professor Avantika Pal's research points to the growing use of alternative credit—like online installment loans and fintech cash advances—which can provide quick access to liquidity but may also increase financial strain for households already close to their borrowing limits: https://ow.ly/lQEw50ZNWo7

The Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (FELP) is delighted to welcome its fourth cohort of 30 distinguished facu...
09/16/2026

The Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (FELP) is delighted to welcome its fourth cohort of 30 distinguished faculty from across the University of Illinois System!

Designed to help faculty innovators enhance the commercial and social impact of their research, FELP is a selective professional development program that imparts entrepreneurial knowledge and self-efficacy without requiring prior startup experience: https://ow.ly/aoXQ50ZNq4p

Congratulations to iMBA alumnus Chidozie Ibeabuchi ('19), who has been named to Crain's New York Business' 40 Under 40 l...
09/16/2026

Congratulations to iMBA alumnus Chidozie Ibeabuchi ('19), who has been named to Crain's New York Business' 40 Under 40 list!

Ibeabuchi leads programs supporting more than 5,000 active and former professional soccer players as the vice president of player engagement at Major League Soccer: https://ow.ly/QkO850ZNTt5

09/15/2026

In 2024, the Chinese social media platform Weibo gave influencers the option of using AI to auto-generate responses to comments.

So how did the fans and consumers respond? Gies professor Yang Gao analyzed those responses for his recent study and discussed what he and his team discovered on the latest episode of Research Reverb.

🎧 Full episode on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify

Meet Shannon Chen, a tax expert who joined Gies Business this fall as an assistant professor of accountancy!Chen’s insti...
09/14/2026

Meet Shannon Chen, a tax expert who joined Gies Business this fall as an assistant professor of accountancy!

Chen’s instinct for making the abstract approachable is something unique she brings to
Gies Business. Her goal across courses is to leave learners feeling capable, not intimidated, by
complex ideas: https://ow.ly/4bWC50ZNoMu

09/13/2026

iConverge is just around the corner!

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs Ravi Mehta is ready. Are you?

Congratulations to Gies professor Marcelo Bucheli on receiving the Richard M. Hodgetts Award from the Management History...
09/10/2026

Congratulations to Gies professor Marcelo Bucheli on receiving the Richard M. Hodgetts Award from the Management History Division of the Academy of Management!

An award given only when a recipient is deemed particularly worthy, the Hodgetts Award recognizes scholars who have made substantive contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service in the field of management history: https://ow.ly/M1B450ZLxnY

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