REGISTER: Chicago Booth Economic Outlook 2015
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is gearing up to host Economic Outlook, an “annual event provides a forum for our pathbreaking thought leaders to confront the future,” which was established in 1954 as Business Forecast. This year’s Chicago event is on January 15, 2015, and three more events will happen in NYC (Feb. 3), Singapore (March 24), Hong Kong (April 28). Continue reading…
Spotlight: Goizueta Grads in the Marketplace
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School takes the transition from academia to marketplace seriously. The school’s MBA programs offer extensive resources to help its students navigate this journey, and the results are evident. In Poets and Quants‘ recently released annual analysis of best and worst MBA job placement at top business schools, Goizueta topped the list for the third consecutive year; Goizueta grads had an impressive 98 percent placement rate within three months of graduation. This year Goizueta tied with three other business schools — U Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania — for best job offer rate 3-months from graduation.
Poets and Quants also says that 2014 was the best year for MBA careers since the Great Recession despite 10 out of the top 30 schools showing small decreases in job offers from last year. Goizueta’s numbers have held steady at 98 percent for 2014, 2013 and 2012. Continue reading…
Booth Prof. Named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 List
Booth School of Business Professor Matthew Gentzkow was chosen by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the 40 proven leaders in their field who are younger than 40. Crain’s cited Gentzkow’s winning the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal for the best economist under 40, and his research on media slant in announcing his selection. Continue reading…
Study Finds Culture in the Banking Industry Favors Dishonest Business
According to a new economic study from Chicago Booth postdoctoral scholar Alain Cohn and Ernst Fehr and Michel André Maréchal, both of the University of Zurich, business culture in the banking industry implicitly favors dishonest behavior.
“Business Culture and Dishonesty in the Banking Industry,” published in the journal Nature, asks these questions that formed the basis for the study, which found that bank employees are in principle not more dishonest than their colleagues in other industries:
Are bank employees by nature less honest people? Or does the business culture in the banking sector favor dishonest behavior? Continue reading…
Booth Research Analyzes Renewable Energy
New research via University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor John R. Birge and German researchers, Ingmar Ritzenhofen and Professor Stefan Spinler of the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, have comprehensively analyzed the various schemes to support renewable energy generation and find ways to reduce carbon emissions as well as end fossil fuel dependence. Continue reading…
Booth Gives Out Inaugural Eugene Fama Prize
Authors John Campbell, Andrew Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay won Chicago Booth’s first Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education for their book The Econometrics of Financial Markets. The winners will receive a $250,000 prize at a one-day conference and dinner celebrating Fama’s five decades of teaching at Chicago Booth. Continue reading…
