News about Chicago Booth

Katlin Smith has a favorite saying: “To whom much is given, much is expected.”It’s a mantra that drove the former Chicago Booth student and founder of Simple Mills while she was still a young entrepreneur with a business idea that would revolutionize the food industry. It’s a belief that motivated her at Booth and afterward, while she grew Simple Mills into an $800-million company as CEO. Currentl

With support from GEP, the school will create a hub for research, education, and industry collaboration focused on the future of supply chains and emerging technologies. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business will establish the GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies, which will bring together scholarship in the burgeoning field of supply chain management and le

Chicago Booth’s 73rd annual Management Conference took place on May 1, 2026, at the Sheraton Grand Riverwalk and Gleacher Center in Chicago. Each year, this conference brings together a lineup of notable Booth faculty members and celebrated alumni to discuss the most pressing issues in business today, through the Booth lens of rigorous inquiry. This year, more than 725 attendees gathered to reflec

Booth's Nicholas Epley, John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, joins Time to discuss the rewarding feelings of actual, "good" conversations, and the lines between "small talk" and "real talk" as mentioned earlier in the article.  He argues enduring and accepting awkwardness is key to building connections and understanding whe

Booth's Eric Zwick, Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Economics and Finance and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar, joins NPR on Planet Money to discuss how the falling prices of homes can leave owners overstretched, and "underwater". This could come to be as homeowners may take on more debt and owe more on mortgages than their houses are worth. "Lax lending standards" which have caused major issues a

This article from WGN explores how Nate Hiser, an Arizona native, worked to navigate new life in Chicago through concepts professed by Nicholas Epley, John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at Booth. Hiser stopped treating strangers like strangers, and documented his efforts on social media, gaining a large following and furth

This article from Psychology Today explores goal and progress tracking, and the complications of that topic in today's age. The article makes statements in conjunction with research from Booth's Ayelet Fishbach, the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing, arguing that evidence of success is far more important than communication of success. Learn more a

Joined by Harvard's Xavier Gabaix, Ralph Koijen, AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Applied AI and Fama Faculty Fellow, provides commentary on how share prices are influenced by capital flows, and how this effects their viability when making predictions. Read more of their commentary at The Economist's website.

Nicholas Epley, Booth's John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, joins the Washington Post to offer commentary on his experience in forcing conversations with strangers, and the various benefits he encountered throughout his field based trial. Learn about his experience and the payoffs of this experiment at the Washington Post

Evan Munro, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, joins Scientific American to explore how the NBA can alleviate tanking in a season where numerous teams seemed to purposefully lose in hopes of having a better spot in the next draft. Munro believes that using a draft to foster a more competitive league for worse teams will always lead to some amount of tanking. Despite this, there is

Chicago Booth's Alex Imas, Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Professor of Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI and Vasiliou Faculty Scholar, joins Forbes in this article, commenting that, "the standard fear about AI and employment gets the structural economics backward." and that automating certian tasks allows a person's touch to have greater value in the "relational sector". Read more about h

Booth's Eric Zwick, Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Economics and Finance and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar, joins The Dispatch in their commentary on New York City's New Wealth Taxes. He comments on how valuation in real estate is conducted, and evolves. Read the full article at The Dispatch's website.

The Chicago Booth Connect 1-Year Anniversary Giveaway is open to all verified Chicago Booth alumni who are at least 18 years old and reside in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia), excluding Rhode Island. Eligible participants must log in to the Booth Connect platform during the entry period (from 9 a.m. CDT on May 5, 2026 to noon CDT on May 8, 2026) and complete any one of t

Now a year since Trump introduced an "uncertain" series fo Tariffs, Booth's Matt Notowidigdo, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics and Business and Public Policy Fellow, explores the fallout of the President's policy, describing them as "paralyzing" in some instances. Listen to Notowidigdo's conversation with Marketplace.org or read the transcript at their website.

Ayelet Fishbach, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing, explores how social media has impacted the emotions and behavior of younger people in this WBEZ Chicago section and article. Listen to the full section at the WBEZ Chicago website.

In this Business Insider article, Abigail Sussman, V. Duane Rath Professor of Marketing and Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Scholar, explores how new technology such as Apple Pay/contactless payments make spending money without paying attention to price easier, removing that barrier to purchase. She and other commentators outline the evolution of impulse purchasing and spending habits as technology evo

Former Fed Governor and current Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth, Randall Kroszner, joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street" to discuss interest rates and their direct relation to the war in Iran, and how the uncertainty surrounding the two is linked.Watch the full video on the CNBC Website.

The founders of K1 Semiconductor, Inc, who are comprised of Booth students and alumni, note three key pillars from their experience at Booth leading to  their success, "The Coursework, the community, and the capital". They go on to share what other aspects of their MBA courses have helped them to acheive success in this article from Poets & Quants. Read the full article at the Poets & Quants websi

This article from Poets & Quants explores the development and story of how Booth chose to get involved with MasterClass and their new AI-Driven Executive program. Dean Madhav Rajan stated to P&Q that Booth faculty are "deeply involved in shaping the academic experience and ensuring that the content reflects Booth’s rigor, research-based insights, and commitment to real-world relevance."Read more a

Luigi Zingales, the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, discusses "What economists get wrong" with specifics including the difference between models and the application of various concepts.  He goes onto discuss the future of the economic landscape and how it may change in this commonplace.org video/article. View the full article/video at the Common