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Chicago Booth has received a generous commitment from University of Chicago Trustee Wei Cai, AM ’95, MBA ’95, and his wife, Lan Xue, as a part of the university’s recently launched campaign, Chicago Minds.Their gift will endow the Wei Cai and Lan Xue Faculty Directorship at the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets, support the Annual Fund, and extend the Wei Cai and Lan Xue Faculty in Residence

In the AI age, people prefer human interaction as opposted to that of a chatbot, unless that chat involves sensitive or embarrasing information that they would otherwise avoid sharing.  Abigail Sussman, V. Duane Rath Professor of Marketing and Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Scholar, joins Forbes to explore how people err on the side of AI consulting when it comes to shame, and how the separation of "c

For more than 125 years, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has produced pioneering discoveries, cultivated a preeminent faculty whose work deepens understanding and shapes new disciplines, and nurtured students who have become innovators across industries.Today, the global Booth community is uniquely positioned to solve evolving challenges in areas from artificial intelligence to

Booth's Abigail Sussman, V. Duane Rath Professor of Marketing and Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Scholar, joins Marketplace.org for an episode of Thi$ is Uncomfortable. She explores financial regrets personally and also those that are made habitually by others, alongside UCLA professor Hal Hershfield, and host Reema Kharis. Listen to the full episode at the marketplace.org website.

Chicago Booth's Randall Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, joins Fortune to comment on Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh, and his reaction to rising Treasury yields. In Warsh's new tenure as Fed Chair, Kroszner has noted that concern and skepticism come with the territory. Despite this, Kroszner has noted there is confidence that Warsh will be keeping a keen eye on the markets, wi

Booth's Nick Epley, John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, joines Forbes to discuss employee engagement in the workplace, and how, "positive experiences build momentum through repetition rather than intensity." He argues that the frequency of positive experiences, such as pre-meeting check-ins or one-on-ones, is the key to wo

Alongside a boom of startups popping up around the US this year and a record 3.23 million business applications made through May of this year, some commentators argue that this may be a current trend as opposed to a sign of a successfully progressing economy. With only 30% of them, based on 2025 numbers, expected to become real employers. Creating employment however may not be the goal, as Booth's

Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance,  argues that markets work best when investors are rewarded for predicting the next breathrough, rather than gaining political favor, despite that being very appealing in today's age.  Anticipating what companies will benefit from the current presidential administration's actions has

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.