GSB Life Articles
Professor Howard Haas: GSB Leadership CEO Guru
Shares His Experience and Thoughts on Leadership
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During a recent interview at Gleacher, Professor Haas explained the origin of the Practice of Leadership course, its content and goals. He also explained what drives him as a voracious reader and a true scholar of leadership at a time in life when many others might elect to kick off their Guccis and slide off their Rolexes.
GSB Team Placed Third at Rice Marketing Case Competition
Marketing Mojo
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Congratulations are in order. On January 26th - 28th, Juan Bell, Janelle Jenkins, Gulnara Sagatova, and Josh Walker, traveled to Rice University in Houston, TX to compete in its seventh annual Marketing competition. After a weekend filled with sponsor dinners, peer networking, case analysis, and team presentations, the GSB team won 3rd place and brought home a cash prize of $2,000! The team received accolades for their analysis of the marketing channels and creative presentation skills.
Riddle Me Do
How Literate Are You
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1) I am a word that means 'calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.' My middle three letters make up a memorable or important date or event. What am I? 2) I am a word which means 'to go back to an original state.' Change my last letter to a vowel and you have a word which means 'to regard with deep respect.
University of Chicago GSB Receives $2.2MM Grant
For Its Center For Decision Research
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has received a $2.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the school's Center for Decision Research (CDR). The CDR was founded at the Graduate School of Business 30 years ago and is one of the world's oldest academic centers focused on decision making.
Riddle Me Do: Answers
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Answers: 1) venerable 2) revert 3) eviscerate 4) effervescent 5) Mt. Everest 6) derive 7) vertex 8) verve 9) fever 10) bereavement 11) never 12) revelation 13) lever 14) nerve 15) reverend
What Do GSBers Do After They Graduate?
GSB Alum Shares His Story
"It was much more than just academics… the greatest part was being able to learn from your classmates who had extensive experience of starting and running successful businesses in North America and around the world. This definitely helped me reshape my thinking about how to develop a successful business and gave me confidence and skills necessary to succeed," he adds.
Top 10 Questions About the Winter Formal
Why You Too Should Go To the Winter Formal
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The event is being held at the Chicago Illuminating Company. Is this going to be like going to a party in the lighting section at IKEA? The Chicago Illuminating Company no longer makes or sells lighting products. It is, however, one of the most visually stunning and best equipped venues in Chicago.
The GSB Wins Venture Capital Competition
GSB'ers Shine Yet Again
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Chicago GSB took the 1st place in the Central Region VCIC (Venture Capital Investment Competition) held in February. The VCIC is a competition between top MBA programs, similar to a business plan competition, but in the VCIC the companies are real and the students play the role of the venture capitalists.
Beyond Our Skin
Path to Education and Enrichment
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Prior to 1837, regardless of your drive and intellectual capacity, if you looked like us, then college was not an option. Melanin level, not intellect, determined who accessed education - the key to the American Dream. No college would have accepted you, not as long as you were black.
Rags' and Eric's Wake-Up Call
A Theory that the 2nd Years Were Slow to Become Involved Themselves
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Rags and Eric, thank you for the wake-up call. I am sure you have been overwhelmed with responses to your brutal attack on the first year class. Well, at least I know a few people who thought about writing a response. But man, we are busy. In fact, I would have gotten involved this morning if it weren't so damn cold out.
First Year Physics…And All That Jazz!
The First Year Class Has Needed Time to Find Its Way
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In response to recent comments surfacing about the conduct of first year students, one feels it is time to offer our [first-year] perspective. It is laudable to want to change people for the better but before one can persuade this change it is desirable and indeed necessary to try to understand the cause, the current situation in order to ascertain whether a change is, in fact, warranted.