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Who does Raghuram Rajan blame for inflation? Dec 13, 2023

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In response to the COVID pandemic, the normally sober US Federal Reserve cut interest rates, issued forward guidance, resumed quantitative easing, and lent trillions of dollars to Wall St, Main St, states and cities. So is the Fed to blame for causing the inflation of recent years? In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, Chicago Booth's Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, discusses the Fed's role in the US economy and analyzes its response to the pandemic.

How to navigate a volatile world Dec 06, 2023

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*This episode was originally released with the incorrect audio. We've now updated it with the correct audio.*

COVID 19, the rise of AI, and climate change have made the world more unpredictable. So how should we respond to a VUCA world – one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity? In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review, Hal Weitzman talks to Chicago Booth's Greg Bunch about how to take advantage of the opportunities VUCA offers.

Find your "gist" and become a better leader Nov 29, 2023

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Are you good at identifying the core essence of things? Clearing your head, rising above the day-to-day, and abstracting things to their critical elements could make you a better leader. In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, Chicago Booth's Linda E. Ginzel, a leadership expert and the author of the book Choosing Leadership, reads her essay "To Lead Effectively, Find Your Core Essence."

Could you be a successful entrepreneur? Nov 22, 2023

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What makes successful entrepreneurs different from the rest of us? Are they more risk-seeking? Do they have better ideas? Or are they just lucky? How do you know if it's the right time to take the leap into starting a business? What does it really take to launch your own venture? In this episode, we bring you a conversation between three experts on entrepreneurship: Chicago Booth's Lindsey Lyman, Sean Bisceglia, former CEO of Curion and operating partner at Sterling Partners, and Liz Tilatti, the former cofounder and CEO of ZipFit Denim, who now serves as a mentor to startups.

Are women leaders being set up to fail? Nov 15, 2023

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Women are often appointed as leaders when an organization is in crisis, and in many cases, they're not given the support needed to turn things around—a phenomenon known as the glass cliff. So are women leaders being set up to fail?

How many poor people do you really know? Nov 08, 2023

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One of the byproducts of growing inequality is that many wealthier people grow up, live, and work without ever knowing someone who is poor or struggling financially. Do the wealthy have an obligation to know what life is like for those on the lower end of the income spectrum? In this episode, we hear from John Paul Rollert, an adjunct associate professor at Chicago Booth and our in-house ethicist.

Three ways AI can improve decision-making Nov 01, 2023

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In the perfect world of economic models, investors make perfectly rational decisions using perfect information and earn the best possible returns. They never get distracted or confused. Of course, in real life it doesn't always work that way. Investors can get bamboozled by management drivel, or besotted with charismatic founders. What if we could use AI to make better investment decisions? In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, we explore how researchers are using machine-learning models to improve how investors allocate their funds.

What are we learning when we're on social media? Oct 25, 2023

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Many of us have observed how social media shapes or warps our behavior. Some people are more willing to get into disagreements or show off more. The rest of us see these behaviors and can assume that that's just how other people behave, even though in reality algorithms may be directing us to the most controversial or explosive content. In this episode, Jeff Cockrell, editor of the Chicago Booth Review website, meets Chicago Booth's Joshua Jackson to discuss his research on the effects of social media on "social learning."

Why are the very rich getting even richer? Oct 18, 2023

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For decades, income inequality has been on the rise around the world. Is that mainly because those at the very top are getting paid more, or are they increasingly passively collecting the income produced by their accumulated wealth? In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, we ask what makes the rich so rich, with Chicago Booth's Luigi Zingales and Eric Zwick, and the University of California at Berkeley's Gabriel Zucman.

Meet the man who gave America no-frills air travel Oct 11, 2023

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Ben Baldanza ran Spirit Airlines from 2006 to 2016, and transformed it into a ultra low-cost carrier, abandoning all frills and charging for any extras. In this episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, he debates Chicago Booth's John Paul Rollert, one of our adjunct professors, who had just written an article entitled, "A business school professor studies the world's worst airline."

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