Program Advisors Tim Kelly, MBA ’00 Polsky Center Investor-in-Residence, Consultant to the Svider Private Equity Program Tim Kelly’s private equity career spans nearly three decades, including senior leadership and investment management roles...
Program Advisors BITC participants benefit from the guidance of experienced faculty and industry advisors who bring decades of private equity and venture capital expertise to the program. Chris McGowan Adjunct Professor of...
News Bio-life Sciences “Ecosystem” Faces New Challenges Dr. Elliott Sigal (MD’81, PhD), President of R&D;, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Dr. Michael Prystowsky (MD’81, PhD), Chairman of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, participate in the inaugural event of...
News How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Research Paper Tackling That Question Receives Top Prize From Journal of Financial Economics A prominent journal in academic finance has awarded top honors to a research paper that used hard data to demystify how venture capitalists select deals and think about the success...
News UChicago, Duality Teams to Pitch at 2021 Chicago Venture Summit Several teams from the University of Chicago and Duality – the world’s first accelerator focused exclusively on quantum technologies – pitched at the 2021 Chicago Venture Summit. The venture capital...
News Small Business Spotlight: ReformedSchool’s Handmade Wearable Art Has Something to Say Peter Gaona didn’t have much money growing up, but he did have a nose for style. So he learned to distress and take apart his clothes, fashioning new items out...
News Booth Team Wins Oxford Global Private Equity Challenge for Second Consecutive Year For the second year in a row, a team of Chicago Booth students took the top prize at a global private equity competition, a success the winners credit to the...
News Meet Abigail Prescott, the Polsky Center’s New Executive Director of Marketing and Communications The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce that Abigail Prescott has joined the executive leadership team as executive director of marketing and communications. She will lead...
Program UChicago Private Markets Program Explore careers in private markets through workshops, theory, case studies, and networking opportunities.
News Meet the Inaugural Alchemist Chicago Cohort Alchemist Accelerator and the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of Alchemist Chicago. Alchemist Chicago Cohort 1 is made up...
Event Investing Essentials: Private Equity (PE) Landscape for Career Changers October 17, 2026 Chicago Booth Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Faculty Advisor to the Svider Private Equity Program, Chris McGowan, will present on and discuss the changing PE landscape and the necessary skills...
