Capital Ideas

09.09.2015

When times are tough, we often look to family. Research suggests lenders do likewise: family-owned businesses paid significantly less for debt than nonfamily firms when credit was difficult to secure.

08.31.2015

How the gambler’s fallacy causes bad decisions.

07.29.2015

Research indicates that cash still beats out credit when there’s enough cash in a consumers’ pocket to cover the bill.

07.07.2015

Chicago Booth’s Anita Rao and Stanford’s Wesley R. Hartmann use demographic data to figure out if moviegoers prefer bigger screens or more choices.

06.17.2015

Professor Richard Thaler examines the evolution of economics.

05.31.2015

How knowledge workers are reshaping the map of the global economy.

Spring/15

The coming revolution in data analysis.

07.29.2014

Chicago Booth’s Jane Risen studies Seeds of Peace, a Middle East coexistence program that brings together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers every year for three weeks in rural Maine.