The University of Chicago's joint-degree program in law and business places students at the intersection of legal and business expertise. By offering both a three-year accelerated JD/MBA and a ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical office worker. He was No. 3 on the 2020 Forbes list of the richest Americans, with a net worth of $125 billion, give or take. But there’s at ...

A 70-year-old woman goes to the pharmacy to pick up medication for her arthritis. How much should that cost her? Maybe $5 for the prescription? Or $20? Or should it be free? There’s surely a lot going ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

When Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed into law in late March a bill containing new regulations about when and how people could vote in the state, it elicited great consternation from opponents ...

When the pandemic hit and spread in 2020, stock markets in the European Union, Japan, and the United States plummeted up to 30 percent. The implications of the virus for public health, the global ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

Chicago Booth’s Ronald S. Burt was in London one morning in 2016 reading the Times when he was struck by an image in the newspaper. It was a map that showed where the recent Brexit vote, for the ...

Sometimes it’s easy on an earnings call to spot the metrics that portend good or bad things for a company. Revenues were unexpectedly high. Operating costs have doubled. But what does it mean when a ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...