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Booth Stories

Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month

Booth students reflect on their multicultural identities, fostering community, and supporting underrepresented minorities.

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 a More Inclusive Booth

Booth’s community has come together to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the school’s pedagogy, scholarship, and culture around the world.

Diversity

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Lighting a Spark

Alfa Bumhira, ’16, leveraged the Booth network to help grow his online learning management startup in Southeast Asia.

Entrepreneurship

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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.

Behavioral Science

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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.