Does collaboration really produce better ideas?
Release Date: 10/22/2025
Should AI disagree with you?
Chicago Booth Review Podcast
When you search the internet or use AI, do you want it to agree with you, or are you open to having your mind changed? Chicago Booth’s Oleg Urminsky tells us about his research, which suggests that we often search in a narrow way that ends up giving us results that confirm our views. Should search engines instead aim to open us up to opposing opinions?
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Are we too obsessed with numerical data?
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Is our increasing obsession with numerical data a bad thing? Chicago Booth’s Erika Kirgios and her coauthors came up with the term “quantification fixation” to describe how we tend to overweight numbers compared to qualitative evidence. What are the risks to that tendency? And how can you use quantification fixation to your advantage?
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Can technology make us smarter?
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Doom-scrolling, social media cat videos and Youtube rabbit holes – you might well think that technology is more mind-numbing than mind-boosting. But could tech actually make us smarter? Chicago Booth’s Pradeep Chintagunta tells us about his research on the effect of technology on small business owners. Could using apps help us to think in new ways and make better decisions?
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Could using credit cards more save you money?
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Do you have both a credit-card balance and a savings account? Would you use your savings to pay down your credit-card balance if it would save you money on fees? Chicago Booth’s Abigail Sussman talks about her research that suggests that about one in five people holds a credit-card balance and a savings account, which effectively means they are paying to borrow their own money. What would it take to change their behavior?
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How to Become a Venture Capitalist
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Getting into the venture-capital industry is hard. So how can you plan to break in if you don’t have the relevant experience? Chicago Booth’s Scott Meadow shares his advice for becoming a venture capitalist.
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Do gay men have a tougher time buying used cars?
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The stereotypical good negotiator is tough, assertive and dominant. When we think of those traits, we may well think of certain stereotypical kind of people who we think fit with that—and who doesn’t fit. So how do people respond differently depending on who they think they’re negotiating with? Chicago Booth’s Erika Kirgios tells us about her research on stereotypes and negotiation in the used-car market.
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Will alternative investments underperform?
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In recent decades, US pension and endowment funds have increasingly allocated funds to alternative investments such as private equity and venture capital. Will those investments pay off? Chicago Booth’s Joe Pagliari tells us about his research on real-estate private-equity funds, and explains his concerns that they may not generate the returns that they expected to earn.
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What Trader Joe’s tells us about strategy
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The US supermarket business is cut-throat, but amid it all Trader Joe’s has been able to carve a distinct role. Chicago Booth’s Ram Shivakumar explains how it has thrived, and what it tells us about business strategy in a highly competitive market.
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Can you catch AI-written reviews?
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Schools are trying to restrict or at least identify the use of AI, and colleges are attempting to catch students who cut and paste generated text to use in their assignments. How effective are the tools they’re using? Chicago Booth’s Brian Jabarian about his research on AI detection tools. Jabarian points out that it’s not just education that’s affected, but also the reviews that drive consumer purchases. So can online tools help you detect if that restaurant review was written by ChatGPT?
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Is Atlanta a better real-estate investment than New York?
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New York, LA, Chicago, Boston and other big US cities have traditionally been a good bet for real-estate investors. But that view is changing. Chicago Booth’s Joe Pagliari explains why those traditional markets are riskier investments, and why more and more real-estate investors are looking at cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, Denver and Houston.
info_outlineMost companies talks about the importance of innovation and collaboration, but the connection tends to be more of a hunch than a demonstrable fact. So can we measure whether collaboration really produces better ideas? Chicago Booth’s Mike Gibbs talks about his research on social networks and innovation. Does having a bigger network make you more likely to come up with new and better ideas? And how has remote work affected networking and innovation?