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“We dug into Yiran s Dropbox and found two polished papers, which were then distributed to a four-person committee (Professors Lars Peter Hansen, Veronica Guerrieri, Doron Ravid, and me),” Zhiguo He, the Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and co-chair of Fan s dissertation committee, said via email.
“Lars and I read both papers carefully, digested their key economic messages, and prepared the slides for each paper,” He wrote. “We then scheduled a public lecture with a wide audience (following the Ph.D. dissertation defense rules at UChicago), to which we presented the two papers. During the presentation, it became clear to the four-person committee that Yiran s papers had met the bar for a Ph.D. degree. We voted right after the lecture, and Lars announced it after the public lecture.”
Evaluating Different Types of MBA Programs
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Getting an MBA does not necessarily require taking two years off from work. While the traditional two-year program might be the best fit for many MBA hopefuls, there are an increasing number of alternatives you can consider based on your personal circumstances and goals.
All programs teach the same general curriculum, often by some of the same faculty. However, full-time MBA programs tend to have more students who are looking for a career change and are interested in a more intense program with a heavy networking and social component in addition to the academics. Of course, many part-time MBA graduates also go on to seek new employment and/or change industries completely.
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Adoctoral student’s dissertation usually marks a new beginning the last step in a long academic journey and the start of a promising career. But as Chicago Booth professor Zhiguo He read through the work left behind by his former student, the late Yiran Fan, SM’15,he felt a profound sense of loss.
Yiran Fan
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Fan was shot and killed on Jan. 9, devastating the University of Chicago community. Originally from China, the 30-year-old student was in the fourth year of the Joint Program in Financial Economics. Fan had not yet proposed a dissertation topic at the time of his death, but when his professors and classmates examined his work, they began exploring the possibility of completing Fan’s Ph.D. in his honor.
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Steven Kaplan, a newly tenured professor in 1996, had just started teaching a class in entrepreneurial finance when a student, Jeff Meyers, MBA’97, popped his head into his office and suggested they hold a business plan competition. Kaplan told him to go ahead and organize it.
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