Blog: Archive for the “University of Chicago (Booth)” Category

Designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Vinoly and completed in 2004 at a cost of $125 M, the Charles M. Harper Center houses Chicago Booth’s full-time MBA program. The Harper Center’s Winter Garden—a towering atrium with six-story, glass Gothic arches—is at the heart of the building and serves as a central place where students can study, … Read More  

When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. Each year, Chicago Booth students can choose to take part in one of 26 … Read More  

If you are an MBA candidate trying to bide your time patiently on Chicago Booth’s waitlist, your wait might be over sooner than you think. The school’s admissions committee recently added an initial, earlier review to the waitlist process to start letting applicants know their fate at the school sooner. Before its Round 2 mid-decision … Read More  

Again we pose the rhetorical question: Chicago Booth is only a finance school, right? Wrong. In the past, we have discussed the strengths of the school’s marketing program, to the surprise of some. We feel that not enough applicants are aware of Chicago Booth’s robust “hands-on” offerings, available through its Michael P. Polsky Center for … Read More  

After losing Dean Ted Snyder to Yale and Rose Martinelli to its parent institution, Chicago Booth is back to adding staff. Today, in an email to students and alumni, the school announced that it has hired Stanford professor Sunil Kumar to assume the role of Dean, as of January 1, 2011. Kumar, an operations expert, … Read More