Member of Booth Global Advisory Board Named Brazil’s Finance Minister
Joaquim Levy, a member of the Booth School of Business Global Advisory Board, has been named Brazil’s new finance minister. This honor was levied upon him by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Levy — who has been dubbed “Scissorhands” thanks to his willingness to cut public spending — has been tasked to help revive Brazil’s slumping economy and lessen its growing debt. Levy’s tenure is to begin at the start of Rousseff’s second term in January, according to news reports. 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…
Booth MBAs Set to Collaborate With University of Illinois Engineering Students
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business is looking south for the next big startup idea. Booth is partnering with the University of Illinois College of Engineering in Urbana-Champaign to bring students from both schools together to work on startups. Continue reading…
U Chicago Launches Civic Leadership Academy to Coaching Chicago’s Emerging Leaders
A new program at the University of Chicago will help strengthen capacity within nonprofits and government agencies in Chicago by bringing together emerging leaders from both sectors to learn critical skills and the means to find solutions to challenges they face. The Civic Leadership Academy targets rising professionals in Chicago and Cook County. These academy fellows will benefit from rigorous coursework led by faculty from five UChicago professional schools (including the Booth School of Business), experiential learning and cross-sector collaboration. Continue reading…
Two Booth Professors Appointed Co-Chairs of Becker Friedman Institute
Two Booth School of Business economists, Lars Peter Hansen and Kevin M. Murphy, have been appointed as co-chairs of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. The two economists succeed Gary S. Becker, AM’53, Ph.D.’55, who passed away in May. These appointments are effective immediately.
Hansen, formerly the research director for the Becker Friedman Institute, will become its director. In this new joint role, the Nobel laureate will guide the Institute’s scholarly direction, develop programming and oversee operations. Meanwhile, Murphy, a MacArthur fellow and winner of the John Bates Clark Medal and the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the Booth School of Business, will focus on the Institute’s outward-facing activities, including public outreach programs and development. Continue reading…
Booth Surveys Aim to Craft the Perfect Class
As an effort to create the perfect MBA class of achieving, high-ceiling students, the Booth School of Business has begun to survey current students about their classmates’ popularity and potential in order to predict who will be the most successful (and wealthiest) alum post-graduation.
Stacey Kole is the deputy dean for Booth’s full-time MBA program. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, she said the school will look for patterns in survey responses to show hidden indicators of eventual wealth, job success, and popularity. Continue reading…
