Moneyball at Booth: Sports, Analytics, and Business
Jeffrey Chao is a first year student at Chicago Booth. Prior to Booth, Jeffrey worked as a financial analyst on an energy trading floor and as a consultant focused on financial transformation and procurement analytics. Jeffrey has always had a passion for sports, and, once upon a time, he interned for Major League Baseball and […]
Five Pleasantly Surprising Facts about Life at Chicago Booth
My name is YaoYao Wang and I’m a first year MBA student at Booth, originally from Los Angeles, California. Prior to business school I worked as an Operations Manager at a health products startup while being the CMO of a volunteer-run nonprofit. Outside of work and school, I love playing badminton, cooking, and Yelping. Follow […]
Living and Learning in Hyde Park
Adam Hanselman is a second year MBA at Chicago Booth. After graduating from BYU, Adam worked in economic consulting with the Analysis Group and then in operations strategy at Capital One. After graduation, he will move to Houston to work in energy investment banking. Adam is a member of the Dean’s Student & Alumni Representatives […]
Chicago Women in Business: 2013 Conference Recap
Booth’s Chicago Women in Business (CWiB) recently held its Fall 2013 conference. CWiB is one of the largest and most active student groups on campus, and provides great programming for Booth’s women to network with one another and alumni in a variety of fields, and participate in educational programming such as golf and self-defense lessons, […]
Bringing the Harvest Home: A Pre-MBA Internship at a Food Startup
Emily Wang is a first year MBA student from Detroit, Michigan. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Emily worked at Deloitte Consulting in the Strategy & Operations practice prior to coming to Booth. Her professional interests center around food and healthcare, and she plans to pursue concentrations in Strategic Management, Finance, and Entrepreneurship at […]
Booth Beginnings: My Pre-MBA Entrepreneurial Internship
Andrew Edelman is a first year MBA student at Booth from Boston, MA. He graduated from Davidson College, where he captained the men’s swimming team, and then worked in investment banking and alternative investment management. At Booth, he plans on pursuing concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Strategic Management. He and his wife are expecting their […]
Challenging Everything: A Boothie’s Bogotá VC Internship Experience
William K. Lee is a rising second-year student at Chicago Booth. This summer he was an intern at Polymath Ventures, an innovative company builder in Bogotá, Colombia, and he shares some of his experiences in this interview. Prior to Booth, he worked as a software engineer for Bay Area Internet companies including eBay and Wikia. […]
Chicago Booth Random Walk 2013: Chile
Each year prior to Orientation, small groups of incoming first year Booth MBA students, led by seasoned second year MBAs, spend a week traveling on “Random Walk” trips to exotic locations and getting to know one another. Chicago Booth Class of 2015 MBA student Caroline Lu produced this video of her Random Walk to Chile. […]
Diary of an Investment Banking Intern in the Big Apple
While some students come to Booth to transition into finance, others use their MBAs as a platform to take their finance skills and careers to another level. One such Booth student, Yvanna Pérez Morel, worked in M&A advisory in the Dominican Republic, her home country, before business school. This summer, she interned both at BofA […]