94%
The percentage of alumni who rate Booth’s faculty highly.
94%
The Faculty Redefining Business
Our faculty aren’t just teaching what’s known. They’re expanding what’s possible.
What does it mean to learn from the best academic business school faculty in the world?
It means the people challenging your assumptions across every class have advised heads of state, shaped global economic policy, transformed how markets are understood, and unlocked new ways of understanding why humans think and behave. Since 1982, 10 of our faculty members have won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and four of them are currently on our faculty.
At Booth, that level of expertise doesn’t stay in a research paper. It walks into the classroom, shapes how courses are built, and changes what you’re capable of thinking.
Why World-Class Faculty Matters
When the professors teaching you are also pushing the frontiers of their fields, the classroom transforms. It’s no longer a place where knowledge is simply transferred. It’s a place where it’s created.
At Booth, you engage with new ideas as they develop and learn how knowledge is challenged, tested, and refined in real time.
These numbers offer a closer look at the faculty excellence, educational quality, and research strength behind the Booth experience.
The Data-Driven Classroom
For 125 years, Chicago Booth faculty have leveraged groundbreaking research to provide Booth students with a transformative business education.
With a background in applied math and finance, Yong Cho, MBA ’24, saw marketing as a “fluffy” nonquantitative subject. That changed when he took Marketing Strategy with Bradley Shapiro, the Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Marketing, who makes it a point to incorporate research and data into his course.
“My biggest takeaway from the class is that there’s a structured framework to thinking about marketing,” Cho says. “Professor Shapiro built a detailed experimental framework and designed an experiment to test it. And then he explained it to us at an overarching level.”
Research That Comes to Life in Classrooms, Boardrooms, and Beyond
Research from Booth faculty changes how the world operates, reshaping the way governments set policy, companies make decisions, and leaders think about markets, risk, and human behavior.
Here, the ideas your professors are developing this week are the ones you’ll debate this quarter.
Chicago Booth Review
The problems your professors are solving aren’t hypothetical. Chicago Booth Review is where their thinking meets the real business challenges you’ll spend your career navigating. It’s written accessibly, argued rigorously, and directly relevant to how you’ll lead. If you want to understand how a Booth education shapes the way you see the world, start here.
Chicago Booth Review
Booth Faculty In the News
Booth faculty thrive on and off the campus. Their work appears in the policy rooms, publications, media outlets, and boardrooms where the world’s most consequential decisions are made. This is what it looks like when research advances a field and moves the people and institutions that run it.
Booth Faculty In the News
Chicago Booth Lecture Series
The Chicago Booth Lecture Series brings the thinking of our faculty directly to you: free, on demand, and covering the ideas shaping business, economics, and leadership today. Access these recordings to engage with the research and perspectives of some of the world’s leading business school faculty, wherever you are in the world.
Chicago Booth Lecture SeriesThe Curiosity That Drives the Research
Nick Epley has spent his career trying to understand one of the most fundamental questions in human behavior: Why do we so consistently misread the people around us, and what happens when we get it right?
As the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science, he has conducted research on social cognition that has changed how organizations think about empathy, communication, and human connection in the workplace. But as the video below shows, the evidence for his research doesn’t stay in a laboratory. Sometimes it shows up at the dinner table.
That’s what makes the Booth faculty experience different. Professor Epley’s curiosity about human connection isn’t an academic exercise—it’s a lived one. And it shapes everything about how he teaches: the questions he asks, the assumptions he challenges, and the way his students leave his classroom thinking differently.
Explore Booth’s Groundbreaking Research Centers and Initiatives
Booth has a total of 15 research centers and initiatives, each driving innovation and breakthroughs that are shaping the future.
Arts and Creative Enterprise Initiative
ACE is the central hub for events and programming in the arts and creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, media and entertainment, and design.
Arts and Creative Enterprise Initiative
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Reporting to the Office of the Provost, the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics fosters novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems, bringing together researchers from the entire Chicago economics community.
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
This center supports researchers from across Booth and UChicago in making revolutionary advances in the applications of AI. Their work touches fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, public policy, education, and behavioral science.
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Chookaszian Accounting Research Center
The Chookaszian Accounting Research Center coordinates accounting research at Booth, hosts research events, and publishes the Journal of Accounting Research.
Chookaszian Accounting Research Center
The Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
The Fama-Miller Center was founded to promote and enhance academic research in finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
Family Office Initiative
The Family Office Initiative at Chicago Booth supports the education, research, and network needs of current and future family office leaders throughout the world.
Family Office Initiative
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
The Stigler Center confronts conventional thinking and investigates the obstacles preventing markets from being truly competitive.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies
The center is a dynamic hub advancing research, education, and industry collaboration focused on supply chain management and emerging technologies.
GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies
Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership
The Davis Center for Leadership supports students and alumni in developing leadership identities and skills.
Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership
The Tolan Center for Healthcare
The Tolan Center for Healthcare serves as a center of gravity for the diverse disciplines that engage in healthcare research at Booth and across the university.
The Tolan Center for Healthcare
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets
The Clark Center organizes Booth faculty efforts to influence public policy and the practice of business around the world, and more.
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets
James M. Kilts Center for Marketing
The Kilts Center for Marketing advances marketing at Booth by facilitating faculty research, supporting innovation in Booth’s marketing curriculum, funding scholarships, and creating engaging programs.
James M. Kilts Center for Marketing
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Polsky Center bridges the gap between knowledge and practice, idea and action, and research and impact through education, partnerships, and new venture creation.
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Roman Family Center for Decision Research
Positioned at the forefront of the rapidly developing field of behavioral science, the RF-CDR is devoted to building a richer understanding of human behavior and experience.
Roman Family Center for Decision Research
The Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation
Booth’s social impact hub harnesses the power of business to make the world more sustainable and equitable.
The Rustandy Center for Social Sector InnovationWhat Students and Alumni Say About Learning from Booth Faculty
The best argument for Booth’s faculty is what happens to the students and alumni who learn from them.
Think Like a Social Psychologist
In a recent sample class with Linda E. Ginzel, prospective students of the Master in Management Program learned why interpersonal dynamics are so important in business.
Think Like a Social Psychologist
On Being Vulnerable
Professor Lisa Stefanac, MBA ’09, and Santiago Vazquez Aldana Urrutia, MBA ’21, talk about the power of personal connections in navigating workplace challenges.
On Being VulnerableLearn from the Best in the World
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Find Your Program
Every Booth program is taught by the same world-class faculty. Find the program built for where you are in your career.
MBA Programs
Put your bold ideas into action. No matter which degree program you choose, learn from world-class faculty and join the same influential network, and the same dynamic community.
MBA Programs
Specialized Masters Programs
Launch your career in management or finance with a specialized masters degree from Chicago Booth.
Specialized Masters Programs
The Stevens Doctoral Program
Explore your research interests and earn a PhD from one of the best business PhD programs in the world.
The Stevens Doctoral Program
Executive Education at Chicago Booth
At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, we are dedicated to developing data-driven executive education programs—rooted in the latest academic research—to meet the evolving needs of executives and their organizations.
Executive Education at Chicago BoothKeep Exploring Why Booth
Faculty are where The Chicago Approach™ lives. Explore how it shows up across every part of the Booth experience and discover the level of support you can receive when you join the alumni community.
The Chicago Approach
Most business schools give you knowledge. Booth gives you a method.
The Chicago Approach
Career Advancement
A Booth degree doesn’t just change your next job. It changes your ceiling, and everything that becomes possible after that.
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