Research and Learning Centers

Chicago GSB is famous for groundbreaking research. A great deal of research activity takes place under the auspices of several centers, institutes, and programs found here.

Center for Decision Research
The Center for Decision Research specializes in understanding individual judgment and decision process. Founded by Hillel Einhorn in 1977, it is the oldest academic center devoted to decision research.

George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
The Stigler Center supports research on the effects of political life on economic life and the reciprocal effects of economic life on political life. The center publishes a Working Paper series and promotes dissemination of research via conferences and lectures.

Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Program at the GSB is a vibrant matrix of courses, experiential learning, collaboration, and research centered on new venture formation and development.

Center for Population Economics
The Center for Population Economics (CPE) supports research on demographic, epidemiological, and economic processes such as in chronic diseases, mortality, work levels, geographic mobility, intergenerational transition of wealth, and more.

Center for Research in Security Prices
CRSP was established at the Chicago GSB more than 40 years ago to create the finest tools for tracking, measuring, and analyzing securities data.

James M. Kilts Center for Marketing
The center sponsors basic and applied research in marketing as well as innovation in the GSB marketing curriculum.

Institute of Professional Accounting
The Institute of Professional Accounting coordinates the accounting activities in the Graduate School of Business.

The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory, Founded by Richard O. Ryan, was established to continue the analysis and research conducted by leading professors at the University and the GSB into the role prices play in the fundamental functions of an economic system. In addition, Price Theory has also pioneered the use of economic tools in studying a wide range of other human behavior (e.g. crime and corruption, discrimination, marriage).

The Initiative on Global Markets
The Initiative on Global Markets deals with the massive global movements of capital, products and talent in the modern economy that have fundamentally changed the nature of business in the 21st Century. The Initiative will focus its work on international business, financial markets as well as the role of policies and institutions.