Community & Culture

Trailblazing Scholar

Chicago Booth marks Women's History Month by honoring alumna Ursula Batchelder Stone, the first woman to earn a PhD in business.

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Faculty Insight

A Bowl of Cashews

Professor Richard H. Thaler—who helps explain the 2008 financial collapse in the Oscar-winning film The Big Short —explores the origins of behavioral economics in his latest book, Misbehaving.

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Faculty Insight

The Economic Cost
of Prejudice

A growing body of research presents an economic argument for tolerance, finding links between historical anti-Semitism and long-lasting blows to entrepreneurship, trust in financial institutions, and more.

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Faculty Insight

Rising Stars

Associate professor of economics Loukas Karabarbounis and assistant professor of economics Neale Mahoney honored with Sloan Research Fellowships for 2016.

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Faculty Insight

New Index Tracks Political Donations

Booth's Campaign Financing Capture Index, published quarterly, aims to capture the influence that large donations have on the 2016 presidential campaign.

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