GSB in the News
Highlights
Financial Times (London)
12 May 2008
The GSB ranked 6th in a new ranking of non-degree executive education programs published May 12. Last year, the GSB ranked 4th. The ranking is based on combined scores for open enrollment programs and custom corporate education. The top schools this year were 1) Harvard and IMD in Switzerland (tied), 3) Duke, 4) Kellogg, 5) IESE in Spain, 6) Chicago GSB, 7) Wharton, 8) Center for Creative Leadership, 9) Columbia, 10) Stanford.
http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/executiveeducation2008
Chicago Tribune
12 May 2008
The 56th annual GSB Management Conference was featured as the main business event of the week in Chicago, in an article published May 12. “Nobel laureates and campaign advisers to Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain will be among the speakers,” the article said. A photo of Professor Austan Goolsbee, one of the speakers, accompanied the story. The Management Conference was held on May 16. Reporters from The Economist, Chicago Tribune and other media attended.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon_planner_event_0512may12,0,71606.story
The Times of London
14 May 2008
The GSB was one of the schools featured in an article headlined “Researchers must also teach if the students are to benefit,” published May 14. “As all of our faculty teach and research, as opposed to some schools where some faculty members only do research, cutting-edge research is brought directly into our classrooms,” said Glenn Sykes, managing director of the GSB campus in London. “Faculty will often present their research in MBA classrooms just days or weeks after it has been completed. Students at other schools read about it in textbooks a year to two later,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/mba/article3925051.ece
Newsweek
5 May 2008
A review of Professor Richard Thaler’s new book, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, said “there’s plenty of substance here.” The book was co-authored with Cass Sunstein from the University of Chicago Law School. They “immerse readers in the science of behavioral economics … at how humans make their economic choices and how those often produce disappointing results,” the May 5 article said. “But what’s most provocative is their belief that ‘choice architects’ – everyone from divorce lawyers to cafeteria managers – can subtly steer choices toward happier results while still leaving people, as another Chicago professor once said, ‘Free to Choose.’”
The Wall Street Journal
13 May 2008
A Q&A with Professor Richard Thaler headlined “Thaler on Nudging People to Make Better Choices,” was posted on the Real Time Economics blog May 13. He and Cass Sunstein make an argument for policies that guide people toward making optimal decisions while not depriving them of their ability to make a choice. Professor Thaler was identified as being “a leading figure in behaviorist economics” and a faculty member at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/05/13/thaler-on-nudging-people-to-make-better-choices/?mod=WSJBlogprint/
