News ‘It’s the American Dream’: Polsky Exec Talks Family-Owned Businesses, Innovation, and Education Family businesses are the engine that runs the economy, says Polsky executive Dan Sachs, who speaks to the importance of supporting those contributors. We caught up with Sachs, who is...
News Don’t Overlook the Power of the Family Business The following article was written by Jamie Shah, entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on October 16, 2023. Read the original article on Crain’s....
News UChicago, Northwestern University and JPMorgan Chase Join Forces To Grow Business And Jobs Three-year partnership will fund new programs to support minority-owned business on south and west sides The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are beginning a three-year partnership to support the...
News Polsky Center Revitalizes Small Business Growth Program with New Funding from JPMorgan Chase The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is expanding programming that fuels local small business growth and improves the economic health of communities. Funded by a $400,000...
News Polsky Exchange and Women’s Business Development Center Partner to Empower Minority-Owned Businesses in Chicago The Polsky Exchange will provide a number of resources for a Women’s Business Development Center-led program, including workshops led by Polsky Center staff, space to work, market research carried out...
News Small Business Spotlight: Qui Solutions Unlocks the Potential Behind BIPOC and Woman-owned Businesses Qui Solutions – a global member-based remote staffing and consulting agency – wasn’t TeQuila Cooper-Shabazz’s first attempt at building a business. In fact, she had spent seven years building two...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 10 Episode 10: Andes STR June 17, 2021 Growing up in Chile in a family of entrepreneurs, Sebastian Rivas since childhood has been on the lookout for problems that need solving....
News Taking Portable Sinks to New Heights: How This Couple is Building a Thriving Family Business Through ETA For Ray Chery and his wife Dana, entrepreneurship has always been in their DNA. Both grew up in families where business ownership was a way of life—Ray in a Haitian...
News Winter 2019 Small Business Growth Program Cohort Announced The Polsky Small Business Growth Program has announced its Winter 2019 cohort, which is made up of small businesses located in the South and West Side of Chicago.
