Booth Students Shine in Case Competition
Throughout the academic year, students from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business teamed up to take home several top prizes in case competitions around the country. Here’s a run down of this year’s winners and award recipients:
Kellogg Real Estate Venture Competition
A team of Chicago Booth students won a $100,000 first-place prize at the Kellogg Real Estate Venture Competition for their proposal to to build a data center under Chicago’s Loop. The team was made up of Weekend MBA student Rob Joyce, Evening MBA student Matt Olsen, and Full-Time MBA students Jan de Kuyper and Scott Ebbott. Continue reading…
Pulitzer Winner Shulmait Ran to Speak at University of Chicago Convocation
The University of Chicago is set to hold its 523rd convocation on Saturday, June 13, 2015. Instead of a commencement or graduation, University of Chicago calls this ceremony convocation, which means ritual assembly. More than 17,000 candidates and guests will share in this occasion, including speaker Shulmait Ran. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Releases New Book
Richard Thaler, professor of behavioral science and economics at the Booth School of Business, has spent extensive time exploring the notion that the central agents in the economy are “fallible, error-prone humans” and not the “rational actors assumed in traditional economics.” Thaler, who is considered a founder in the field of behavioral economics, is now releasing a new book on May 18, 2015 that further examines why people love to misbehave in ways that effect the economy so much. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Matthew Gentzkow has been elected by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences as one of its 197 new Fellows, according to a press release on the school website.
A Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth, Gentkow studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries. He has had his work published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been covered in major national media.
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Booth MBAs Set to Pitch Big Idea for Chicago’s Block 37
Booth School of Business MBAs Scott Ebbott and Matt Olsen have come up with a fresh use for the space that had been intended under Chicago’s Block 37. According to a story in Crain’s Chicago Business, the duo plan to pitch their idea to turn the space into a data center at an upcoming competition.
108 North State Street is a site currently under development as an urban center located in the Loop community area of downtown Chicago. Recently, the space has had a bit of a troubled past. The three building structure was being developed by Joseph Freed and Associates LLC, as a project inherited from the Mills Corporation. However, in 2011 Bank of America foreclosed on the property and sold it in 2012 to CIM Group. Retail development responsibilities were undertaken by Joseph Freed and Associates LLC. By February 2012, the building remained only 26 percent occupied due to the undesirability of leasing space in bankruptcy proceedings. The retail spaces remained only 52 leased at the time. Continue reading…
Booth Set to Launch New Poverty Lab
Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at Booth School of Business, will direct the new University of Chicago Poverty Lab. According to a press release on the The University of Chicago’s website, The Poverty Lab is one of three new urban labs the University of Chicago announced. This lab joins the Ecology and Wellness Labs as part of a University of Chicago network that builds on the success of the school’s Crime and Education Labs.
The Poverty Lab’s mission will be to seek ways to improve parenting skills and better prepare students for the job market. In each lab, staff members and students conduct research, formulate strategies for tackling problems, work with community groups to operate programs, then evaluate data to assess impact. By summer, the labs will be operating out of workspace in the Loop. Continue reading…
