Chicago Booth Review Podcast

Most of us find it hard to achieve our goals. So how can we set better goals and follow through on them? We put that question to two experts on motivation, Chicago Booth's Ayelet Fishbach and the University of Pennsylvania's Katy Milkman.

How carefully do you tend your professional network? How does your network shape your ideas and your behavior? Understanding network theory can both help you become more successful professionally, and to explain political and sociological trends such as polarization, nationalism, and anti-globalization.

As hybrid work becomes increasingly common, organizations and managers are trying to come to grips with the challenges of a partly remote workforce. We consider how hybrid work will shape the labor market with three experts in the theory and practice of hybrid work: Chicago Booth's Steve Davis and Mike Gibbs, and the University of Chicago's Melina Hale.

What should the uber wealthy do with their money? How can they leave a lasting legacy? And what responsibilities do they have to society at large? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, Booth's John Paul Rollert reflects on the role of those at the very top of the 1 percent.

Many economists agree that inequality has risen in recent decades, but that's where the agreement ends. Measuring the trend is contentious, and it's more than just a methodological squabble. How severe one sees the problem informs the policies proposed, from no change to a host of new taxes aimed at correcting the imbalance. In this special episode of the Chicago Booth Review podcast, we present a conversation between two economists who take very different views on inequality: Chicago Booth's Steve Kaplan and UC Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez.

Academic models often built on the assumption of how rational utility-maximising individuals would behave. But as behavioral scientists have long pointed out, real people don't actually behave that way. Does that mean that we behave irrationally, and if so why? Or is our behavior actually more rational than it may appear? In this special episode, we present Chicago Booth's Richard Thaler, an economics Nobel laureate, in conversation with Harvard's Steven Pinker.

Do stock prices reflect all publicly available information? Are they entirely a reflection of the fundamental values of their respective companies? Or is there something else that helps to explain episodes of surprisingly high volatility, from market-wide plunges to the sudden surges of meme stocks? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, we explore the inelastic markets hypothesis, which suggests that fund flows and investor demand play an important role in market behavior.

Exploring the surge of funding in AI startups and its impact on the tech industry. Discussing data ownership in healthcare, AI's role in medicine, and the risks associated with investing in startups. Emphasizing the importance of value creation and customer acquisition in AI applications.

The loss of faith in free markets that followed the 2007–10 financial crisis was followed up by a number of political developments that suggested the ascendency of populism and a more skeptical attitude toward democracy among many people. What can be done to protect democracy from this erosion of trust? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, we feature a conversation, held at Chicago Booth's London campus, between Booth's Raghuram G. Rajan and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, in which they discuss the health of democracy, why it has come under pressure, and why the middle class is crucial to preserving it.

Individuals acting in their own self-interest are, according to classical economics, an important part of a productive, efficient economy. And yet, selfishness is among the personality traits best known for impeding healthy human relationships. How do we separate the two concepts? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, Booth's John Paul Rollert explores how we define the line between them, and why that line matters.