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ISOI News

Solving the hidden cost of constant connectivity at work

Modern workplaces thrive on collaboration, but that collaboration comes at a hidden cost: relational overload. As teams become increasingly interconnected, employees aren’t just juggling tasks – they’re juggling people.

Arkadiy Sakhartov wins 2024 ISOI Best Paper Award

Gies Professor Arkadiy Sakhartov was named the recipient of the 2024 Illinois Strategic Organizations Initiative (ISOI) Best Paper Award for his article “Corporate Diversification and Risk: Portfolio Effects and Resource Redeployability” that was published in Strategy Science in 2022.

Gies research reveals advantages of informative brand names

Professor Olga Khessina’s paper focuses on high-velocity markets, characterized by rapid rates of product change and turnover. The research examined the relationship between the names of optical disk drives and their success in the marketplace.