News Q&A With Steve Kaplan, Co-author of New Academic Book on Private Equity Private equity has become an increasingly popular investment vehicle as it outperforms other asset classes and access expands to the broader investing public. What’s been missing, said Steve Kaplan, one...
News Private Equity Insights: Raymond Svider Returns to Chicago Booth for Fireside Chat with Steve Kaplan The conversation spanned from creating value in portfolio companies to the evolving impact of AI and geopolitical uncertainty on global investing. Raymond Svider, MBA ’89, chairman and partner at BC...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 9 Episode 9: Grubhub June 10, 2021 Matt Maloney admits he had a bit of an ego when he entered the New Venture Challenge. He had already launched Grubhub, had a...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 6 Episode 6: Power2Switch May 20, 2021 As a Black founder, Seyi Fabode, MBA ’10, has experienced the challenge of investors taking him seriously. Fabode, an immigrant from Nigeria, recalls an...
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 2019 Spring Cohort Selected for the George Shultz Innovation Fund The Polsky Center has announced the four companies moving on to the spring finals of the 2019 George Shultz Innovation Fund.
Team Madhav V. Rajan, MS, PhD Steven S. Wymer Dean, Chicago Booth; Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth; Chief Global Strategist, University of Chicago Steven S. Wymer Dean, Chicago Booth; Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth; Chief Global Strategist, University of Chicago
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...
News StepStone Cofounder and Booth Alum Tom Keck Talks Investment Trends, Industry Evolution Cofounded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumnus, Tom Keck, MBA ’97, the StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm that last year went public with...
News Stellatus Solutions, a Startup Born at UChicago and Nurtured By Polsky, Acquired by Slingshot Aerospace to Help Prevent Satellite Collisions in Space Last fall, a team of University of Chicago students was tasked with addressing a challenge one might hope already had a solution: How to improve communication between satellite operators to...
News Chicago Inno’s “Under 25” Honors Seven UChicago Grads Making Waves as Young Innovators Chicago Inno’s annual list of rising young innovators found plenty of entrepreneurial talent to celebrate at the University of Chicago. The 2022 “Inno Under 25” list featured seven recent graduates...
