Booth’s Advanced Management Program gave senior executive Alicia Edsen a toolkit for nimble leadership to help her grow in her career ...

After a few years of relatively stagnant viewership in and around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Super Bowl has reclaimed its status as a perennially record-setting television event. The 2025 ...

When President Donald Trump unveiled his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs last April, pundits on both sides of the aisle responded by describing the likely effects in superlatives. In a White House ...

The United States has become better known for inventing things than making them. That goes for everything from Apple’s iPhones to Levi’s jeans. Low-cost foreign labor is an obvious reason factories ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Manufacturers, for the most part, don’t run their operations at full capacity. Machines sit idle. Processes are slowed. Macroeconomists have long studied the effects of these costly choices, asking, ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

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Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...