University of Chicago Booth School of Business

08/31/2026

Wondering about the ROI of Booth’s Part-Time MBA Programs?

📈 In 2025, the median base salary for Part-Time MBA graduates was $170,500.

📈 Graduates were hired by leading employers including Google, Amazon, and McKinsey.

📈 76% of graduates seeking a career change made one.

Check out more career outcomes for the class of 2025 in Booth’s latest employment report.

Learn more about employment outcomes from our graduating part-time MBA students as we take a deeper dive into the 2025 employment report data.

08/28/2026

Booth’s Ralph Koijen organized a conference earlier this year that brought together AI researchers, academics, and experts from the asset management industry to understand how AI systems will reshape the ways markets are analyzed and risk is managed.

They discussed new applications, open questions, and the boundaries of what AI can achieve in finance.

Read the takeaways. ⬇️

Finance professor Ralph S. J. Koijen assembled a meeting of minds to discuss investment strategy in the age of artificial intelligence.

08/28/2026

“Psychologists have learned that happiness is really a function not of the intensity of experiences that you have, but rather the frequency of them,” says Chicago Booth’s Nick Epley. “You’ve got to recognize the times when you’re choosing to avoid connecting with others when it would otherwise be rewarding.”

Read more in Forbes. ⤵️

Misunderstandings keep leaders from connecting at work. Discover how micro-interactions boost talent retention, foster allyship, and transform workplace culture.

08/27/2026

Three Boothies spent their summer expanding their business horizons through the Doing Business in China program. The two-week program, in partnership with Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, included guest speakers, company visits, and cultural immersion activities. It took place across China in Beijing, Chengdu, and Shanghai.

“I’ve heard about China’s rapid modernization and growth as an economic superpower,” says Weekend MBA student Ivan Chen. “Seeing is believing; I wanted to personally experience how the Chinese are excelling across various sectors like AI, electric vehicles, and internet superapps like Tencent.”

Ivan also appreciated the opportunity to connect with other students in the program, including his fellow Boothies Victoria Li and Mridul Mahesh. The social outings were a highlight, like their spontaneous karaoke night. “I came away with a dozen friends across the globe,” he says. “The diversity of the cohort meant you could learn something from everyone, whether it was the creativity of those fresh out of school or the emotional intelligence of those running a business for decades.”

08/26/2026

While taking courses at Booth, Hashaam Asif, MBA/MPP ’26, also studied public policy at UChicago’s Harris School.

“I decided to pursue the MBA/MPP joint degree because I knew that to make a significant impact in today’s complex and changing world, I have to be able to work across the business, government, and civic sectors,” he says.

Learn more about his experience as a dual-degree student specializing in tech entrepreneurship, economic development, and social impact. ⬇️

Hashaam Asif, MBA/MPP ’26, shares his experience pursuing an MBA as an international student interested in economic development and tech entrepreneurship.

08/25/2026

Interested in becoming an AI Fellow at the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence? Current students can apply for the fellowship, which includes unique opportunities to connect with faculty and alumni while helping shape the school’s AI community. The application deadline is August 31.

Learn more. ⬇️

A community of current MBA students dedicated to enhancing AI at Chicago Booth through coursework and engagement opportunities.

08/25/2026

Measuring inflation isn’t straightforward, especially the way economists typically do it, by constructing a price index. But researchers including Chicago Booth’s Chang-Tai Hsieh have identified a set of “chosen products” that can be used to estimate inflation more reliably.

Read more in Chicago Booth Review. ⤵️

Research takes on the problems that plague price indexes.

08/24/2026

“The only people who are positive, where there’s a clear positive balance in happiness, are married people,” says Chicago Booth’s Sam Peltzman. “We have a happiness-segregated society by marriage.” ⤵️

Read more in Fortune.

Americans went through a “happiness crash” right after the pandemic. The ones who are married are the only ones who really recovered.

08/24/2026

“The central challenge for all behavioral scientists doing research is you need people to be in your experiments, and you need a lot of them,” says Chicago Booth’s Nicholas Epley.

Mindworks, Booth’s downtown behavioral science center, is helping researchers tackle this challenge. Operated by the Roman Family Center for Decision Research, Mindworks is both a discovery center and a lab where visitors from around the world can explore interactive exhibits and participate in studies.

Learn more about Mindworks’ impact as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. ⬇️

Faculty, staff, and students reflect on Booth’s downtown behavioral science center for its fifth anniversary.

08/21/2026

Companies are being forced to rethink traditional logistics strategies to maintain resiliency, efficiency, and competitiveness in today’s connected global market. How can market leaders stay ahead of the curve?

"It’s imperative for companies to embrace digital transformation and upgrade to smart tools that can help them better track the provenance of goods, parts, and components," says Sundeep Khera, MBA ’14 (AXP-13).

Read on for more insights on how to modernize logistics. 👇

Four experts weigh in on how to modernize logistics.