The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has received $14 million in total gift commitments from University of Chicago trustee and alumnus John Edwardson and Fran Edwardson to support its ...

When President Donald Trump unveiled his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs last April, pundits on both sides of the aisle responded by describing the likely effects in superlatives. In a White House ...

After taking the time to craft and submit an application that puts your best candidacy forward, our admissions team begins the process of reviewing materials submitted by our latest pool of applicants ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical office worker. He was No. 3 on the 2020 Forbes list of the richest Americans, with a net worth of $125 billion, give or take. But there’s at ...

On December 9, 2025, Booth alumni, students, and community members gathered in Chicago to listen to a conversation on what ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

The introduction of the price tag was a big step forward for American retailing, and you can thank John Wanamaker. In the 1870s, Wanamaker purchased a former Philadelphia railroad depot and expanded ...

Looking for insights to make your work more meaningful, even during uncertain times? Join us for the next CareerCast from Chicago Booth—“How’s Work: From the Mundane to the Meaningful in Challenging ...

One of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s most defining attributes on the US Supreme Court, particularly so early in her tenure, is her identity as a Black woman—the first to have climbed to such ...

Newborns with virtually no visual experience prefer to look at faces over equally complex objects. Primate brains contain neurons, usually concentrated in a few regions in the inferior temporal cortex ...

One might expect that those in charge of banking policy in the United States would celebrate the concept of a “narrow bank.” A narrow bank takes deposits and invests only in interest-paying reserves ...