Most people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by the end of January. That’s typical of many goals—made but never reached. But research by Jiabi Wang, a PhD student at Chicago Booth, and Booth’s ...

One of the biggest decisions people have to make across all branches is when to exit the military,” says Ben Backsmeier, MBA ’24, who last year became chairman of Orion Military Scholars, a nonprofit ...

Welcome to the world’s most flexible full-time masters of business administration program. Every moment you spend as a Full-Time MBA student, you build on your existing academic and professional ...

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 ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...

When the pandemic hit and spread in 2020, stock markets in the European Union, Japan, and the United States plummeted up to 30 percent. The implications of the virus for public health, the global ...

It’s been seven years since US president Donald Trump took to a Washington, DC, podium to sing the praises of a tax bill, soon to become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017—better known to many as the ...

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 ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

Chicago Booth’s Ronald S. Burt was in London one morning in 2016 reading the Times when he was struck by an image in the newspaper. It was a map that showed where the recent Brexit vote, for the ...

A 70-year-old woman goes to the pharmacy to pick up medication for her arthritis. How much should that cost her? Maybe $5 for the prescription? Or $20? Or should it be free? There’s surely a lot going ...

At a conference held by the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago’s Alessandra Voena moderated a discussion with Harvard’s Claudia Goldin and Chicago Booth’s ...