Randall S. Kroszner:
At Chicago Booth, we take a global approach to business. We have campuses in Hong Kong, in London, and in Chicago. We’ve been in Europe for more than a quarter of a century, and we’ve had a campus in London for 15 years. To mark that milestone, we are opening this spectacular new campus, right in the heart of the City of London, just a stone’s throw away from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
I stand before you in front of this incredible wall of our Nobel laureates—a century of innovative thinking. Of people not just taking the world as given, but wanting to change the world, always asking questions, and always questioning answers.
On our faculty, we have a wide variety of viewpoints. We go from Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize winner for his contributions to efficient markets, to our most recent Nobel laureate, Richard Thaler, who takes a very much behavioral economics point of view. We have both of those at Chicago Booth, and we don’t give you the answers. What we do is, we raise the questions. We take different approaches, and we want you to work through the answers.
Our new campus right at the heart of the City of London is at the intersection of a whole variety of communities: the tech community, the entrepreneurship community, the finance community. It’s going to be part of the University of Chicago Global Entrepreneurs Network, where we bring people together from around the globe to try to think about what’s next, what’s new, how to shape the future. We want this new campus to really be a hub for innovative thinking, and I look forward to welcoming you here at our new campus.
