Archive for the 'Chicago GSB' Category
Hilarious post by Fake Steve on business school:
Some dude in B school wants to “shadow” me
I think this must be the scariest blog in the world. Or the saddest. [...]
Braintree Payment Solutions, winner of this year’s New Venture Challenge at the Chicago GSB, has bravely entered what is, as far as I can surmise, one of the murkiest, confusing, and frustrating industries out there: credit card processing.
I spoke with Bryan Johnson, CEO of Braintree, early on in my search for a web based [...]
Looks like LinkedIn is lining up an IPO exec team…hoping to hit $100m in revs this year. LinkedIn replaced CEO Reid Hoffman earlier this year as well. Very interesting.
This concept of an IPO team reminds me of Steven Kaplan’s research on the importance of the horse (technology, idea, etc.) or the jockey (management) [...]
After four years and ~5o exams, this past weekend I received my degrees from the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. It feels great to finally have the diplomas in hand, and I’m extremely excited to now be able to focus 100% of my time in [...]
I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion this afternoon, hosted by my school’s JD/MBA association, entitled “CEO Hiring, Firing and Compensation in a Post-SOX Private Equity Boom.” The panelists were Professor Steven Kaplan (GSB), who testified to Congress about CEO compensation and HR 1257 in March of this year, Professor Douglas Baird [...]
The philosophies generally associated with the University of Chicago usually orbit around free markets, rational actors, and economic efficiencies. These were generally borne out of the Friedman & Stigler cohort and the Chicago School of Economics which reached its peak during the mid-80’s still is a dominant force in economics, politics, and law today.
An [...]
I attended a talk today given by Nobel laureate Gary Becker entitled “How to Improve United States Immigration Policy.” Becker is one of the most prominent of the Chicago school of economists and won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 for his work in the field of price theory. He is [...]
Last night I helped out with the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center’s Fast Pitch Competition. The event was co-sponsored by The GSB, Kellogg, and De Paul and a bunch of my GSB classmates entered with hopes of winning the $5,000 prize. Each entrant in the contest had 3 minutes to pitch to a panel [...]
I just read this case for my Technology Strategy class, and it is by far the best business school case I have come across to date. It gives a great overview of the development of the Linux ecosystem, how Red Hat came out of the mix, and the business challenges that face Red Hat post-IPO [...]