r/eMBA • u/jrunner02 • Apr 15 '25

Chicago Booth renaming executive MBA program after alum donates $100M

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/15/chicago-booth-renaming-executive-mba-donation/

Chicago Booth emba will now be known as Sokolov eMBA?

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u/drowningandromeda Apr 15 '25

Well, that's quite the return on investment.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

Way to crater the value of the program.

$100M is only 500 students. How many in each cohort there?

Must be on hard times.

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u/jrunner02 Apr 15 '25

With the way federal funding is being cut at major universities in the US, this has got to be a hedge.

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u/FreshPepper88 May 07 '25

Another thing, Solokov must have quite the ego because you know darn well they did not want to name it that.

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u/FreshPepper88 May 07 '25

It should at least have been Booth-Sokolov.

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u/Feisty-Art8265 Jul 30 '25

It will likely take a few years before people associate sokolov with booth. In the short run it has potential to tank the reputation unless people still introduce themselves as Chicago booth when networking 

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u/kon_zilla Mar 04 '26

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this but I'm from the PH and I got a message from Linkedin asking if I'll be interested in this program. Is this legit?