University of Chicago Booth School of Business

06/02/2026

On The In-House Ethicist podcast, Booth’s John Paul Rollert explores the ways in which Uber has tried to perfect the art of app-based management. Listen to the episode from Chicago Booth Review.

John Paul Rollert explores the implications of app-based management.

06/02/2026

“Operations management is a technically intensive discipline. It’s not usually considered fun,” says Chicago Booth’s Amy Ward. She challenged this perception at a recent event with executives from Hong Kong Disneyland, exploring the power of operational systems to create memorable customer experiences.

💡 Key Takeaways:

▪ ️Hong Kong Disneyland’s invisible infrastructure systems help create an immersive experience.
▪ ️Giving employees more autonomy improved connections with guests.
▪ ️Adapting to guest behavior increased efficiency and revenue.

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At a recent event in Hong Kong, professor Amy Ward and executives from Hong Kong Disneyland explored the power of operational systems to create memorable customer experiences.

06/01/2026

“Human behavior has too many simultaneous drivers for clean answers, and sometimes different findings genuinely appear to contradict each other,” says Kristin Donnelly, an assistant professor of marketing at Chicago Booth who was featured in Poets&Quants’ list Best 40 Under 40 Professors. “But students need something they can use, so I try to land takeaways that are usable for their lives without totally flattening the complexity.”

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Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 540 up-and-coming star MBA and graduate business professors from around the world.

05/29/2026

“Interest rates are high, so it is lucrative for credit card companies if people don’t pay their credit card off every month,” says Chicago Booth’s Thomas Talhelm. “But there is always the risk that people will just never pay the money back.”

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05/29/2026

Chandra Nath, MBA ’07, cofounder and CFO of the AI startup DevRev, reflects on the Booth alumni who helped guide his journey from investment banking to entrepreneurship. That includes Dan Fairfax, MBA ’79, who served as a mentor to Nath during the first merger transaction of his career.

“His financial models were the benchmark of what good looked like for me,” Nath says. “It’s been foundational to how I operate at DevRev.”

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Chandra Nath, MBA ’07, highlights members of his Booth network who have had a strong impact on him.

05/28/2026

On the latest episode of Chicago Booth’s CareerCast podcast, host Anita Brick and executive coach Sandy Li discuss how to land a corporate board seat—including how to package your story and build a targeted network that actually opens doors.

Thinking about a corporate board seat? Learn how to define your board value, build strategic connections, and create a practical path to board service.

05/27/2026

For years, Maria Carmona, MBA ’25 (XP-94), watched a close family member struggle with mental health misdiagnoses. Now, she’s working to help other families avoid the years of pain her own experienced.

While in Booth’s Sokolov Executive MBA Program, Carmona founded Kivira, an AI-powered startup focused on improving mental health diagnosis. The platform uses AI and DSM-5 standards to help clinicians identify conditions more accurately and efficiently.

“We’re not just building a tool for primary care,” Carmona says. “We’re building diagnostic infrastructure for the entire healthcare system.”

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Personal experience inspired Maria Carmona’s AI-powered company to revolutionize mental health diagnosis.

05/27/2026

The main reason people feel uneasy about socializing is that they worry about what they’ll say rather than how they’ll say it, says Chicago Booth’s Nicholas Epley.

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I realized I was focusing on the wrong thing: I worried about what to say rather than how I’d say it.

05/26/2026

If the sun’s out, so are the students at our Chicago campus. ☀️

05/26/2026

Jeegar Shah, MBA ’13, says his path to becoming head of applied AI and platform engineering at Atomicwork wasn’t straightforward. It may even seem random—his career has spanned the fields of physics, hardware, AI, consulting, big tech, and startups. But he wouldn’t change a thing. He suggests five-year plans impede exploration.

“In this day and age, when we don’t know what’s happening in the next month, much less in the next five years, that question serves only as a block to your curiosity.”

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After two decades at the AI frontier, Jeegar Shah (MBA '13) still thinks that genuine curiosity will always beat a five-year plan.