From: Dean Ted SnyderDate: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Subject: How to refer to our school
Chicago Booth Community,
Our announcement of David Booth's very generous and powerful vote of confidence in our business school and our rebranding the school The University of Chicago Booth School of Business have been nothing short of historic. The feedback has been as extraordinary as the gift and the naming of the school itself.To clarify, there are three ways to refer to our school:
*The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
*Chicago Booth
*Booth
The rebranding of the school has empowered us to move away from a generic description, Graduate School of Business or GSB, to Chicago Booth, which has the potential to become a world class brand befitting this world class institution. Our goal is for Chicago Booth to be the best business school in the world and to be recognized as such.We believe that referring to the school by name rather than by its initials will go a long way in helping us achieve this goal. We would like to elicit your support and help in successfully launching our new brand. When referring to your school, please use The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago Booth or simply Booth. Please resist the temptation to call the school the BSB or the Booth School of Business.
I am confident that propelled by David's record breaking gift and the amazing press coverage we've already received, your thoughtful stewardship of the Chicago Booth brand will be just what we need to achieve unprecedented levels of broader recognition, familiarity and respect exceeding that of any other business school.
Thanks for your help and support.
Ted
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:23AM
The Spank Booth!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:27AM
Bess, see you saturday @ Duke. Very excited to hear you speak.
Posted by Clown Capital , Nov 12, 2008 9:27AM
BSB...lol
Bull-shit Booth...lmao...
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:28AM
Back Street Boys
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:30AM
So glad that someone finally could put an end to the highly offensive use of the "Booth School of Business".
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:30AM
Ted we cant here you with Booth's cock so deep in your throat!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:31AM
What's my motherf*ckin name?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:32AM
Yes, please don't confuse the brand name of this brandless pile of academic fraud
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:34AM
Chicago Booth: Beating Off to Clearly False Academic Theories Since 2008
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:34AM
more like booze school of business
06 grad'
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:35AM
Chicago Booth: Because You Didn't Get Into Wharton
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:35AM
worst....name...ever
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:36AM
I'd rather live in a phone booth than go to that school
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:39AM
Does anybody remember when GSB used to spew all that holier than thou bullshit about how it would never sell its name? Couldn't have been more than a few years ago. "We don't need to be like those Kellogg and Wharton clowns, we've got an awesome brand."
Nice job.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:40AM
Lots of jealousy on the site today.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:40AM
@2 why's she going to duke
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:41AM
Ted's rectum must be really, really sore right now
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:41AM
Who the f cares!
Is that what jack a$$es in power think about all day. Dean Ted Snyder is a tool.
I wonder how many of your grads have f-uped. Possibly more then Harvard?
....now that would be an interesting poll......
I am going to call it BS Booth.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:45AM
What a fuckstick this Booth guy must be. There are starving babies the world over, but his $300mm needs to make sure that his name is on some buildings and that we continue to get excellent academic research into how efficient markets work.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:46AM
Chicago is a joke. and with the end of finance industry these guys are done. take you HP12 and go to H&R Block
HBS and Stanford are the only real business schools. And for industries, Purdue, OSU and Michigan. Other schools are scam.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:47AM
From the school that gives us one of the most arrogant and stupid "theories" ever. Even in its weakest form EMH is dead wrong.
Bitter business professors that couldn't find a way to beat the market!
It is akin to saying Michael Jordan was a great basketball player because of sheer luck.
What a joke!
Eugene Fama
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
"The efficient-market hypothesis states that it is impossible to consistently outperform the market by using any information that the market already knows, except through luck."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_market_hypothesis
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:48AM
Great point 19--they should call it the Sally Strothers Booth School of Chicago Business.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:49AM
Here is his email and contact info, why don't we all send him some of our thoughts.......
BS Booth is my choice.
Snyder, Edward A.
Title: Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics
Department: Dean's Office
Room: 222
Phone: (773) 702-1680
Fax: (773) 702-2225
Email: tsnyder@chicagogsb.edu
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:52AM
#23 Post your sister's number too, I think she gave me crabs.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:56AM
So is the rest of the world still using the portfolio diversification and options theories developed at Chicago?
Thought so. By the way, the last time I checked Wharton fucking blows. What a bunch of East coast nancy boys. You would last 2 minutes in the pits of Chicago.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 9:59AM
@25 getting a little teste, aren't you?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:00AM
WTF is @2 talking about?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:03AM
#24 so original........
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:03AM
@7 JIGGA!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:03AM
Yes I'm a grad, will that be a table or a Booth sir?
Posted by miami , Nov 12, 2008 10:05AM
Stanford has without a doubt put out the worst MBAs of the past several years, it's not even close. I'd take anyone from Purdue, UNC, Michigan, or even NYU instead.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:05AM
@21, Wikipedia? Seriously? Not only is Fama is your intellectual superior, but the rest of humanity probably is too.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:06AM
JO & C Booth
Posted by ShortOil , Nov 12, 2008 10:08AM
@31
please don't put Michigan in a group with Purdon't
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:09AM
@9 and @11, hahaha!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:15AM
I like to beat off to anime porn in the corner booth at my local library.
- U. Chicago Senior Class President
Posted by VOL IS KING , Nov 12, 2008 10:17AM
@21:
It may in fact be true. The issue is its impossible to say what one knows and does not know. The issue is hypothesis testing my friend.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:21AM
VOL IS KING = Chung is King
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:22AM
@34
You're right -- Purdon't is a MUCH better school than Michigan.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:29AM
Booth Application
1.) Are you a virgin?
_ Yes
_ No
* If yes, please proceed with application. If no, we don't want you as you are over qualified and your sexual experience would intimidate 99.9% of our student pop. Kthx.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:32AM
Whats the measure of the greatness of a business school the economic theories they espouse, the wealth of their alumni?
If we are just talking about theories then Oxford and the University of Bonn arent too shabby.
As far as wealthy alumni take your pick:
Stanford
Columbia
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
I never understood these people that need their names attached prominantly to a building. It seems like some feeble attempt to cheat death. If you originally established the school, library etc. thats one thing but throwing around cash in hopes that a placard on a building will keep your mortal coil around forever shows more in the way of fear than magananimity. [The Schwartzman/Library building being a prominent example of the behavior]. Applauding this is like caring about those celebs. that are celebs. by dint of them being celebs. (Kardashian, Hilton, Mortimer, etc.)...lets add these guys to the list.
Ok my morning rant is done...
-C
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:38AM
2 - If you are correct, please post pictures of BessBess doing her thing at Duke or with the Duke Lacrosse boys...
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:43AM
Ted, are Booth's nuts salty or sweet?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:44AM
The guy donates a barillion dollars and the best he gets is "David" in the emails from the dean?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:48AM
*The Universitaay of Chicago Boof School of Bidness
*Chicago Boof
*Boof
sho nuff
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 10:54AM
The level of discourse reached a new low with this thread...seemingly well educated individuals from HSB, Booth (I almost said GSB) and other schools have to remind all of us that the greatest error business schools have made over many years now, was to train "professionals" rather than gentlemen. Sad to say, but you hear more class from the oil change guys at your local Valvoline...
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:00AM
Professionals? Like hookers? And how do you train a gentleman?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:01AM
@41
Why does it have to be so superficial? I don't think these guys are buying the name, I think their name is put on the school as a way for the school to display a token of their appreciation for the (significant) donation. Maybe, just maybe these guys are thankful for what their business school taught them and are not just in search of ways to extend their legacy. Is that so hard to believe?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:05AM
@48
Yes, that is so hard to believe.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:06AM
Bluth School of Business?
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:15AM
I am a famous financier and chose not to get a B school named after me but, rather, have small monuments to myself placed all over the world community.
~ Frank Lightpole
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:40AM
Suck it haters and elitists. It's likely that every one of you supercilious chimpanzees uses some concept created by the UC.
BS option pricing (Nobel)
Modigliani - Miller (Nobel)
Permanent Income Hypothesis (Nobel)
Rational Expectations (Nobel)
Black's Leverage effect
Mental Accounting (Thaler)
Fama-French Risk Factors
Momentum (Carhart)
Ever heard of any of this stuff?
That said, Booth as a name still sucks.
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:46AM
@51, silly yet brilliant. Maybe YOU deserve a Nobel Prize in Economics!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 11:49AM
Selling the name is the strongest manifestation of the free market ideology and the belief that there is a right price for most things in life! Good to know the school practices what it preaches.
And the best thing is, name us anything, we would still be distinctly what we are.
More resources for research and the flexibility to keep attracting the best students which are likely to be great resourceful alums. Not a bad deal!
My only concern is that though $300MM is the highest individual donation to a b-school, I would have loved a $1B mark. But then, isn't it a recession?
As for free market and the opposition thereof... we invented it, we will tinker with it, and come up with a version that would all others would be taking as a gospel for few more decades to come. And then we move on to other things, its an evolving world, and as long as you have the brain power and the will to evolve alongwith the changing world, you are fine. Chicago has that, and so we are fine!
By the way, I love cynical criticism. Shows that people love us ;)
Go Chicago!!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 12:00PM
@51, brilliant!
Posted by guest , Nov 12, 2008 3:02PM
lawyer, lawyers everywhere.
http://endofesq.com/?p=507
Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:04PM
Somebody search for "Chicago Booth" on Google....its hilarious