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Booth Stories

Exploring How the Mind Works

Mindworks—Booth’s new behavioral science center in downtown Chicago—aims to advance understanding of human behavior and expand research beyond the ivory tower.

Booth Stories brings to life the people, places, ideas, and thought leadership that make the University of Chicago Booth School of Business a global leader in business education. Discover inspiring student stories, get leadership insights from accomplished alumni, get to know our faculty as researchers, teachers, and mentors, and much more. Explore Booth Stories. You'll find so many different, powerful, personal answers to the question, "Why Booth?"

In the Spotlight

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Building Inclusive and Equitable Teams

A series of events challenged students and staff to reflect on privilege and mitigate bias in the workplace.

Diversity

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Rising to the Challenge

Now in its 25th year, the New Venture Challenge remains one of the country’s top-ranked business accelerator programs. Three Booth alumni explain why every participant, regardless of the contest results, comes out a winner in the end.

Entrepreneurship

This Is Working for Me: Foundation Capital's Joanne Chen, ’14

The second-ever woman to be general partner at Foundation Capital discusses the challenges of startup investing, the promise of AI, and speaking out against racism.

Venture Capital

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Tackling Public-Health Research’s Data-Sharing Problem

A new tool kit from the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence helps institutions collaborate to leverage data more effectively and improve health care.

Big Data

The Chicago Approach in Action

Which class at Chicago Booth has had the largest impact on you? Part-Time MBA students share which classes inspired them, challenged them, and allowed them to take their learnings and apply them to their careers.

Part-Time MBA Blog

Yiran Fan to be Awarded Posthumous PhD

Fan’s degree was awarded this June, to be presented to his parents later this summer. A fellowship will also be created in memory of the late student.