Academics

The Chicago experience will prepare you to take your career to a new level. At the GSB, you'll find an academic program that features:

• an emphasis on analyzing problems, generating key insights and implementing creative solutions – We stress the importance of asking questions and examining ideas. How to make things better. Be prepared for all possibilities. Because there are no clear cut answers. You'll gain a powerful framework for making decisions throughout your career, in any business situation, in any industry.
• a curriculum you can use now – GSB professors bring their real-world experience as consultants, expert witnesses, board members or even investment fund managers to the classroom. You’ll learn how to assess risk, approach clients, think more strategically and make better decisions along a range of outcomes. The tools you need today and in the future.
• collaboration – Business is all about individuals with their own talents and abilities uniting to solving a problem, to making things better. You’ll find the same approach in the classroom. In study groups. Faculty who share insights, encourage debate, ask you to question your assumptions. Colleagues from three campuses, numerous industries and many job functions who create a broader perspective.  All driven to maximize the learning experience.  
• community across continents, cultures and customs – With students from 51 countries and classes in three international locations, there truly are no boundaries. You’ll meet a person who knows a materials supplier in Bolivia; who’s worked in Mongolia or Siberia; who’ll show you around Turin on your next business trip.
• classroom discussion – Lecture is only part of the process of learning. At Chicago GSB, you’ll be pushed to ask questions – lots of them – by faculty and your classmates. “Why do you think that is so?” “How does that affect the budget?” “What makes that a good decision?” “What are your alternatives?” Fearless and freewheeling debate will give you the confidence to excel in any situation, anywhere, with anyone.

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