{"id":28088,"date":"2022-01-09T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=28088"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:21:33","slug":"professor-profiles-lubos-pastor-the-university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-lubos-pastor-the-university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Lubos-Pastor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12756 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Lubos-Pastor.jpg\" alt=\"Lubos Pastor, Chicago Booth\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobooth.edu\/faculty\/directory\/p\/lubos-pastor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Lubos Pastor<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/guides\/insiders-guides\/chicago-booth-school-of-business-insiders-guide\/\">University of Chicago Booth<\/a> School of Business.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nDespite his relatively young age,\u00a0<strong>Lubos Pastor<\/strong> has already received considerable recognition for his research on the stock market and asset management and was once featured among \u201cThe Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40\u201d by <em>Poets&amp;Quants<\/em>. At Chicago Booth, which Pastor joined in 1999, he is currently the Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, the Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow, and the co-director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor\u2019s work has been influential, earning him such high-profile accolades as the NASDAQ Award, the Goldman Sachs Asset Management Prize, and the Barclays Global Investors Prize, as well as the McKinsey Award for Excellence and Teaching, two of Chicago Booth\u2019s own Faculty Excellence Awards for MBA Teaching, and the Chicago Booth Phoenix Award, \u201cfor greatly enriching the learning experience of the Full-Time MBA Class of 2019.\u201d One student quoted in the\u00a0<em>Poets&amp;Quants<\/em>\u00a0article said \u201chis witty style elevates classroom conversations and facilitates retention of core concepts.\u201d At Chicago Booth, Pastor currently teaches the MBA course \u201cPortfolio Management,\u201d in addition to several executive education courses.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about Chicago Booth and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. 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