UChicago offers several ways for undergraduates to work on cutting-edge business research with Chicago Booth faculty members.

Exactics, a startup that develops rapid diagnostic tools for infectious diseases, took home the top prize and $135,000 in the ...

Through the course, Sarna discovered just how much modern marketing is grounded in data-based insights. As someone who ...

The inverse of a monopoly, monopsony occurs when a market has a single buyer. Lack of competition from other buyers means the ...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has received $14 million in total gift commitments from University of Chicago trustee and alumnus John Edwardson and Fran Edwardson to support its ...

To understand the importance of reliable data to economic policymaking, think about driving without an accurate speedometer. Knowing when to press on the brakes and when to push down on the ...

Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...