News Tech Leaders Say Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Could Hurt Startups, Workers If President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his anti-immigration stance, it won’t save American jobs, say leaders of Chicago’s tech startup sector. Worse, the businesses that depend on high-skill technical talent will...
Program Chicago Booth and Polsky Center Private Equity Council Members The Booth Polsky Private Equity Council is comprised of some of the world’s leading private equity investors who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center’s Svider Private Equity...
News Wintrust Business Lunch 12/31/16: Mike Lenz, Samantha Bomlamp, John Flavin Amy Guth discusses how Chicago-based app Tip Yourself can help you in the new year with its co-founder Mike Lenz. Samantha Bomkamp, business reporter at the Chicago Tribune, breaks down...
News Business Leader Thinking About Sharing a Trump Opinion? Read This First Just days after the US presidential election, Matt Maloney, founder and CEO of Grubhub, sent out an internal memo letting his employees know that those who share in then president-elect...
News How NVC Finalist BrewBike Launched with the Help of Two Top Chicago Universities Conventional wisdom would lead most people to conclude there’s a coffeehouse on every corner, but Randy Paris, MBA ’18 isn’t a conventional thinker.
News The Good, the “Bad,” and the Good “Good” (Cholesterol) In the vanguard of a new generation of promising drug therapies for treating atherosclerosis with “good” cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, or HDL) is an agent being developed by Godfrey Getz,...
News Discovery Matters Alan Thomas, Director, UChicagoTech, Ellen Rudnick, Executive Director and Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Polsky Center, Keith Moffat, Deputy Provost for Research, Donald Levy, Vice President for Research and...
News Polsky Accepts Record-Breaking 20 Teams for Summer Accelerator Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has accepted 20 teams, the most ever, for its Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit ventures....
News Liv Labs Lands SBIR Grant and Spot in Y Combinator as it Develops a Better Tool for Women Experiencing Urinary Incontinence Urinary incontinence is a common ailment among women that often goes unspoken – and therefore untreated. One in four U.S. women, and 40% of women over age 65, experience unwelcome...
News Celebrating Black in Tech: Insight and Advice from Black Startup Founders Jasmine Shells, MBA ’21, founded her startup in Chicago with the intention of building it in Chicago as well. But when it came time to raise money, the checks were...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 16th Annual Global New Venture Challenge From Chicago, Singapore, and London, 19 teams are advancing to Phase II of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2023 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the...
