Faculty and Insights

The Chicago Booth faculty are a diverse group of more than 200 preeminent scholars of business, committed to the success of every student, in every Booth program, at all three of our global campuses.

At Booth, we are proud of our award-winning faculty—including our ten Nobel Prize–winning professors—who have helped shape the world as it is today. That transformative knowledge, expertise, and commitment to creating enduring impact extends throughout the more than 200 tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and adjunct professors who teach our MBA, PhD, and specialized masters students, as well as our Executive Education participants.

Teachers and Mentors First

Faculty members at Booth are known for their award-winning research. World leaders, media outlets, and top global companies regularly turn to them for their expertise and insights. At the same time, our faculty are committed to teaching and mentoring students in every program at all of our campuses. Here’s how our faculty are different:

Academic Freedom

They have the freedom to bring their cutting-edge knowledge of business fundamentals into the classroom in the ways that they believe will bring the most transformative, enduring value for their students.

Innovative Curriculum

They teach how they feel will work best, always adapting and innovating their curriculum to be more relevant, timely, and most effective at helping students鈥攔egardless of their program or career goals鈥攁chieve success.

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Research with Impact

Their research not only creates enduring impact in the world鈥攊t creates enduring impact in the Booth classroom. Booth students receive an inside look into the latest and most relevant research and academic literature.

Faculty Research Awards and Honors

At Booth, we celebrate the success of our faculty, who regularly receive the most prestigious awards in their fields鈥攆rom accounting and economics to finance and the social sciences. Here are some of the most recent awards our faculty have received.

Appointed chair of the Group of 30, an independent global body of economic and financial leaders.

Winner of the 2024 Moskowitz Prize, which recognizes high-impact research in sustainable finance.

Selected as the next fellow of the American Finance Association.

Winner of the 2024 Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize from the Journal of Finance for his paper “Selling Fast and Buying Slow.”

Awarded the ninth Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics for the paper “Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices.”

Winner of the 2024 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Winner of the 2024 Falling Walls award in the social sciences and humanities category for his research tackling the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing.

Stories of Faculty Impact

We鈥檝e Been Underestimating Discrimination

New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.

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A Golden Age for Green Investment?

Some green projects are enjoying a boost thanks to unconventional cost-of-capital calculations.

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In Finance, Humans Were the First Machines

A Q&A with Chicago Booth’s Dacheng Xiu on the implications of machine learning for the financial markets.

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New Faculty at Booth

Discover some of the most recent preeminent scholars to join our faculty.

Leland Bybee

Assistant Professor of Finance

Jacob Conway

Assistant Professor of Economics

X.Y. Han

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Beidi Hu

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Sid Kankanala

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Malika Korganbekova

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Shuangning Li

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Virginia Minni

Assistant Professor of Economics

Agathe Pernoud

Assistant Professor of Economics and Biehler Junior Faculty Fellow

Andres Sarto

Research Assistant Professor of Finance

Julia Selgrad

Assistant Professor of Finance

Taisiya Sikorskaya

Assistant Professor of Finance

Bahar Taskesen

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

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Stories from our Community

At Booth, students and faculty develop lasting connections, and those connections often last well into a student's career journey. Explore stories from our collaborative community.

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Putting Creativity to Work

Professor Mary Ittelson’s Art + Business Lab course sparks new ways of thinking and leading.

Classroom Experience

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The Puzzle of Capitalism

Guided by professor Robert H. Gertner, students at Booth are challenging and informing their attitudes toward capitalism.

Classroom Experience

Dive Deeper into Booth Faculty and Insights

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Find a Faculty Member

The faculty at Booth possess an unwavering commitment to the success of every student, in every program, at each of our three global campuses.

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Explore Our Academic Areas

Discover the 11 academic areas under which our pathbreaking faculty conduct research and teach.

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Learn About Our Nobel Laureates

Since the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, ten of our faculty members have won the award. Learn more about each of our Nobel laureates.

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Research Centers and Innovation

In subject areas from entrepreneurship to artificial intelligence, our research centers are creating lasting and profound impact in business, culture, and society.

Wide-Ranging Interests and Backgrounds

Faculty come to Booth with a diverse array of personal stories, professional perspectives, and scholarly interests. Our faculty hail from locations as diverse as Bulgaria, Iran, Moldova, and Shanghai, and their research focuses on everything from the volatility of financial markets and challenges of remote work to the dynamics of discrimination and importance of networking. These diverse points of view promote a dynamic classroom environment where ideas compete and people collaborate.

Pradeep Chintagunta teaching at the Harper Center

Chicago Booth MBA Masterclass Series

Go inside the Booth classroom by viewing past MBA Masterclass sessions with our world-class faculty, and sign up for future, real-time MBA Masterclass virtual events.

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