Savoring the Challenge: Portillo’s CEO Michael Osaloo, MBA ’96, reflects on the unconventional choices that took him from law to the restaurant industry. Ticktock: Chrissy Lozier Warren, MBA ’20, and ...

In its inaugural year, BoothHacks brought together 132 student builders, 37 new AI-powered products, and 10 judges for a high ...

The United States has become better known for inventing things than making them. That goes for everything from Apple’s iPhones to Levi’s jeans. Low-cost foreign labor is an obvious reason factories ...

Researchers across disciplines have pieced together a timeline of cognitive costs.

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has received $12 million in commitments from University of Chicago trustee Mary Tolan, MBA ’92 (XP-61), and her husband, Edward Grzelakowski, to ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

Financial crises of a sort that may normally hit financial markets once a century struck twice in the past two decades. First there was the 2008–09 financial crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...