Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Motto	Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (Latin)
Motto in English	Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched [1]
Established	1898
Type	Private business school
Endowment	US $1.023 billion
Dean	Sunil Kumar
Academic staff	177 (130: tenure track) [2]
Postgraduates	3140 [2]
Location	Chicago, IL, USA
Alumni	43,000 [2]
Colors	Maroon      White
Mascot	Phoenix
Affiliations	University of Chicago
Website	www.chicagobooth.edu

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is a graduate business school located in Chicago, Illinois, at the University of Chicago. Formerly known as the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S.,^[3] the first such school to offer an Executive MBA program,^[4] and the first to initiate a Ph.D. program in business.^[3] The school was renamed in 2008 following a $300 million endowment gift to the school by alumnus David G. Booth. The school has the third-largest endowment of any business school.^[5]

The school's flagship campus is located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago on the main campus of the university. The school also maintains additional campuses in London and Asia (originally Singapore, but in July 2013 a move to Hong Kong was announced),^[6][7] as well as in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile. In addition to conducting graduate business programs, the school conducts research in the fields of finance, economics, quantitative marketing research, and accounting. Chicago Booth is currently ranked first globally by the Economist.

History

Chicago Booth traces its roots back to 1898 when university faculty member James Laurence Laughlin chartered the College of Commerce and Politics, which was intended to be an extension of the school's founding principles of "scientific guidance and investigation of great economic and social matters of everyday importance." The program originally served as a solely undergraduate institution until 1916, when academically oriented research masters and later doctoral-level degrees were introduced.

In 1916, the school was renamed the School of Commerce and Administration. Soon after in 1922, the first doctorate program was offered at the school. In 1932, the school was rechristened as the School of Business.^[2] The School of Business offered its first Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1935. A landmark decision was taken by the school at about this time to concentrate its resources solely on graduate programs, and accordingly, the undergraduate program was phased out in 1942. In 1943, the school launched the first Executive MBA program. The school was renamed to Graduate School of Business (or more popularly, the GSB) in 1959, a name that it held till 2008.

Deans of the School of Business

Name	Tenure
Henry Rand Hatfield	1902–1904
Francis W. Shepardson	1904-1906
C.E. Merriam	1907-1909
Leon C. Marshall	1909–1924
William H. Spencer	1924–1945
Garfield V. Cox	1945–1952
John E. Jeuck	1952–1955
W. Allen Wallis	1956–1962
George P. Shultz	1962–1969
Sidney Davidson	1969–1974
Richard N. Rosett	1974–1982
John P. Gould	1983–1993
Robert S. Hamada	1993–2001
Edward A. "Ted" Snyder	2001–2010
Sunil Kumar	2011 -

During the later half of the twentieth century, the business school was instrumental in the development of the Chicago School of economics, an economic philosophy focused on free-market, minimal government involvement, due to faculty and student interaction with members of the university's influential Department of Economics. Other innovations by the school include initiating the first PhD program in business (1920), founding the first academic business journal (1928), offering the first Executive MBA (EMBA) program (1943), and for offering the first weekend MBA program (1986).^[8][9] Students at the school founded the National Black MBA Association (1972), and it is the only U.S. business school with permanent campuses on three continents: Asia (2000), Europe (1994), and North America (1898).

Academics

Chicago Booth offers Full-time, Part-time (Evening and Weekend) and Executive MBA programs. The University is also a major center for educating future academics, with graduate programs offering the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in several fields.

The program allows students to structure their own course of study subject to the constraint of a broad set of requirements, unlike some other top-tier business schools, which impose a cohort or learning team system that includes coursework to be completed in a pre-determined order. This gives students the flexibility to construct a program of study that is tailored to their needs, and can be as broad or deep as they choose. The only required course for full-time and part-time program students is LEAD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development) , which students take in their first quarter for full-time students and within the first four quarters for part-time students. This course focuses on the fundamental skills of leadership: motivating people, building relationships, and influencing outcomes. Students in the full-time program may earn an International MBA, or IMBA, by studying abroad on exchange with another business school, taking certain electives, and by demonstrating oral proficiency in a second, non-native language.

The school's Executive MBA program is unique in that students may elect to spend the required residential periods on all three of the school's campuses worldwide (London, Chicago, Singapore, Hong Kong), while also employing the cohort system. In Business Week Executive MBA Ranking 2011 the school ranked 1st.^[10]

Academic concentrations

Students in the Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, and Part-time MBA programs can concentrate in one or more areas, although some concentrations' required coursework may necessitate schedule modifications for students enrolled in the part-time program. The areas are:

Accounting Analytical management Analytic finance Econometrics and Statistics Economics Entrepreneurship Finance

General management Human resource management International business Managerial and organizational behavior Marketing management Operations management Strategic management

Honors

Chicago Booth offers two honors designations, High Honors and Honors. The High Honors designation is assigned to the top five percent of the graduating class, while the Honors designation is assigned to the next 15 percent, based on GPA averages of all MBA graduates from the previous academic year . The school does not use the Latin Honors system, though High Honors appears equivalent to Summa Cum Laude while Honors appears to mirror the designation of Magna Cum Laude at other American schools .

Research and learning centers

The school promotes and disseminates research through its centers and institutes; the most significant ones are:^[2]

• Accounting Research Center
• Applied Theory Initiative
• Center for Decision Research
• Center for Population Economics
• Center for Research in Security Prices
• Chicago Energy Initiative ]
• George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
• Initiative on Global Markets
• Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• The Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
• James M. Kilts Center for Marketing

Rankings

Business School Ranking
U.S. MBA
Bloomberg Businessweek[11]	3
Forbes[12]	2
U.S. News & World Report[13]	4
Worldwide MBA
CNN Expansion[14]	5
Financial Times[15]	9

Chicago Booth was ranked first in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012.^[16] The program was also ranked first globally in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 The Economist MBA rankings.^[17] Chicago Booth was ranked 2nd in the Forbes Best Business Schools Ranking 2013.^[18] US News, in the 2013 Best Business Schools ranking, ranked Chicago Booth 4th, while its Executive MBA program was ranked 2nd, and its Part Time program was ranked 2nd.^[19] The School was indexed as the 6th best Business School in North America in the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report.^[20]

In the most recent aggregated "ranking of rankings" of US business schools, the school ranked #3 in the Financial Times and #3 with Poets&Quants. Each of these rankings is a composite of five major MBA rankings published by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and/or U.S. News & World Report which is meant to eliminate anomalies and other statistical distortions that are often present in any single ranking.^[21][22]

People

Faculty

The Booth school has 177 professors,^[2] and includes Nobel laureate Eugene Fama, presidential appointees, and a MacArthur fellow.^[23] Notable economists Kevin M. Murphy, John H. Cochrane, Luigi Zingales and Raghuram Rajan, behaviorist Richard Thaler, and former Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, are professors there.

Alumni

The Chicago Booth Alumni has a community of over 43,000 members ^[24] and is supported by 60+ alumni clubs worldwide.^[25] Alumni include Satya Nadella, Jon Corzine, Peter G. Peterson, Philip J. Purcell, Said G. Daher and John Meriwether.

See also

• List of United States business school rankings
• List of business schools in the United States

References

External links

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