Shortly after Dhiraj Rajaram, ’03, arrived at Booth in 2001, he saw the future. Solving complex business problems required a radical departure from the silo mentality that separates programmers, ...

Analysts at the 2,500-person firm, based in Chicago, Bangalore, and Austin, are trained at an in-house math factory called the Mu Sigma University; Rajaram, who grew up in Chennai, runs it from ...