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News 5 Chicago Booth Students Honored with 2025 Student Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized five outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
News The University of Chicago and the Grainger College Of Engineering Partner to Expand Undergraduate Track of UChicago’s Accelerator Program The College New Venture Challenge is expanding to partner with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
News The 10 Days of Polsky: Looking Back at 2020 The past year was unlike any we’ve experienced before. Despite the many challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we stayed focused on advancing our Polsky Center mission. We authored...
Page Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition The Polsky Center offers a suite of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) resources designed to provide students and alumni access to the education, capital, mentorship, and resources necessary...
News 8 Things to Look for in 2021 at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation It’s a New Year and the Polsky Center kicks it off with a full line-up of events and programs, including our milestone 25th anniversary celebration of our nationally-ranked Edward K....
Page Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital The Polsky Center offers a variety of programs and resources to help you on your entrepreneurial journey and get experience in venture capital. The front door...
News Five Chicago Booth Students Honored with Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized five outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
News 10 Small Businesses Graduate from Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program Last month at the Polsky Exchange, mentors, sponsors, and participants gathered to celebrate the graduation of the latest cohort of the Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program (SBG). Over the...
News Polsky Center Receives $5 Million Gift from Booth Alumnus A gift from David Kessenich, MBA ’96, and his wife, Colleen, will propel new groundbreaking work and faculty-led research at the Polsky Center.
News U of C’s Booth School and Polsky Center Team Up with C200 to Support Booth Entrepreneurs In a joint effort to educate and develop the next generation of highly-successful business leaders, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and its Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and...