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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.

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When two giants fight a trade war, the real winners might be playing from the sidelines.Gies Business professor Joe Clou...
06/23/2026

When two giants fight a trade war, the real winners might be playing from the sidelines.

Gies Business professor Joe Clougherty and Hyewon Ma (Indiana University) explored the possible benefits of being a bystander: https://ow.ly/k1HL50ZenTK

Doing it all 🎒⚾️👟🥎️️⛳️Congratulations to our 22 Gies student-athletes who were named to the Academic All-Big Ten list fo...
06/23/2026

Doing it all 🎒⚾️👟🥎️️⛳️

Congratulations to our 22 Gies student-athletes who were named to the Academic All-Big Ten list for Spring 2026!

Third Coast Foundry is hosting its grand opening ceremony on June 23, followed by Midwest Deep Tech Demo Day!Startups fr...
06/20/2026

Third Coast Foundry is hosting its grand opening ceremony on June 23, followed by Midwest Deep Tech Demo Day!

Startups from Gies College of Business and seven other universities will descend on San Francisco for an investor-only event, where they'll pitch as part of the city's Deep Tech Week.

06/17/2026

Gies College of Business benefactor and Madison Industries founder Larry Gies discusses leadership, philanthropy, innovation, and the future of business education on this episode of The Gies Download!

🎧 Full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), one of the nation's premier economics research institutions, has appoin...
06/17/2026

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), one of the nation's premier economics research institutions, has appointed Gies Business faculty member Julia Fonseca as a research associate!

Fonseca is an economist focused on household, development, and labor finance. Her research examines how finance shapes our labor, jobs, and mobility. Congratulations, Julia!

📰 https://ow.ly/3Q2v50ZbSAr

06/15/2026

At the end of every undergraduate learner's time at Gies Business sits the Purpose Project. Students articulate their purpose, assess their skills to enact it, and carry out self-directed projects related to skills development and service, shaping the community around them.

This past spring, Haiden Mast was voted a winner of the Purpose Project competition, as he created a CVS pharmacy planner website!

Introducing the first class of AI faculty fellows! These faculty are developing discipline-specific AI curricula, and de...
06/11/2026

Introducing the first class of AI faculty fellows! These faculty are developing discipline-
specific AI curricula, and designing and testing new models that reflect both the opportunities and the responsible use of emerging AI technologies.

🔸 Eren Ahsen
🔹 Myoung Kim
🔸 Aimee Barbeau
🔹 Fei Du
🔸 Hongyu Wang
🔹 Joshua Herbold
🔸 Ashish Khandelwal
🔹 Oktay Urcan
🔸 Julian Reif
🔹 David Molitor
🔸 Maria Rodas
🔹 Vishal Sachdev
🔸 Jason Satchell
🔹 Deepak Somaya
🔸 Sandra Corredor
🔹 Wei Zhu

As AI continues to accelerate and change, we're proud to be investing in innovative approaches that place human expertise at the center of AI: https://ow.ly/CHmS50Z9yGn

iVenture alumnus Sean Chang is modernizing how campuses and community recreation facilities operate through DoubleSpot. ...
06/10/2026

iVenture alumnus Sean Chang is modernizing how campuses and community recreation facilities operate through DoubleSpot.

What started with insights gained during an internship with the Los Angeles Dodgers has grown into a fast-scaling startup now partnered with CENTERS LLC and operating across nearly a dozen states: https://ow.ly/XLW150Z9y9a

When a task can be done in a safe way or a risky way, most people play it safe - especially if they know they're being e...
06/08/2026

When a task can be done in a safe way or a risky way, most people play it safe - especially if they know they're being evaluated.

But Gies Business researchers Clara Chen and Laura Wang found that encouraging employees to share failures flips that instinct, making them more willing to experiment and more likely to succeed: https://ow.ly/ihGb50Z8PHS

06/06/2026

As a land-grant institution, it's our mission to tackle important issues and empower our learners and faculty to address pressing societal challenges.

And we're committed to doing so through providing a world-class education, right here in the Midwest!

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