{"id":29942,"date":"2021-12-26T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29942"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:25:37","slug":"professor-profiles-james-e-schrager-the-university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-james-e-schrager-the-university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: James E. Schrager, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Schrager_500x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26137 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Schrager_500x500-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"James E. Schrager\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Schrager_500x500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Schrager_500x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Schrager_500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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\/s\/james-e-schrager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>James E. Schrager<\/em><\/strong><\/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><\/p>\n<p>Although he has a PhD from the University of Chicago in organizational behavior and policy,\u00a0<strong>James E. Schrager<\/strong>\u00a0is not just an academic, but also a practitioner who helped take the first private American company public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and helped turn around aspects of the Pritzker family holdings, which were ultimately sold to Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway. Students we interviewed noted that Schrager brings his high-level experiences to class but remains entirely in touch with students\u2019 more modest perspectives, adapting his anecdotes accordingly and creating practical learning points that pertain to what students will face early in their post-MBA careers.<\/p>\n<p>Schrager is a three-time winner of the university\u2019s Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching (in 2007, 2001, and 1996), and he received the Faculty Excellence Teaching Award in 2017. One second-year student told mbaMission, \u201cHe is not up in the sky, but very practical, and by the way, his class is always full.\u201d Students\u2019 grades in Schrager\u2019s \u201cNew Venture Strategy\u201d class are based in part on the success of a business idea the students present to their peers\u2014the other students act as venture capitalists and give feedback on the idea.<\/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><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0James E. Schrager\u00a0from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-james-e-schrager-the-university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,32],"tags":[62,181],"class_list":["post-29942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professor-profiles","category-chicago-booth","tag-chicago-booth-2","tag-professors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: James E. 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