News For Startup Founders, This is the Classic Dilemma The following article was written by Dr. Steven Gould, consulting director for Polsky Science Ventures, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on December 18, 2023. Read the original article...
Event Fireside Chat featuring Raymond Svider, MBA ’89, Chairman and Partner, BC Partners April 17, 2025 Raymond Svider, MBA ’89, is chairman and a partner at BC Partners, a private equity firm focusing mainly on the upper mid-market in Europe and North America. The firm also...
News Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 25th Annual PE Conference Investors, students, and industry leaders gathered last week for the 25th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference, a day-long event exploring the evolving dynamics of private equity investing and value...
Technology A New Method of Isotope Enrichment and Separation: Preferential Embedding of Heavier Isotopes Into Ices Isotope separation methods are key to numerous scientific and industrial processes. Nuclear power plants and weapons, for example, require fuels enriched in a select isotope. And isotopically pure or enriched…
Technology A Highly Efficient Spatial and Temporal Method for Isotopic Separation Present isotope separation methods utilize laser beams, centrifugation, and diffusion to exploit subtle differences in physical properties. However, these methods are relatively inefficient and require multiple successive steps to achieve…
Technology Computational Method to Design Simultaneous Radiation Treatment of Multiple Metastatic Lesions Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SART) is the precise delivery of concentrated radiation beams to a tumor from different angles. Due to the cross interaction between beams, SART is rarely able…
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 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 Navigating Private Equity in the COVID-19 Landscape Professor Steve Kaplan weighs in on how private equity firms are assessing their portfolio investments in the aftermath of the coronavirus The COVID-19 pandemic has forced private equity (PE) firms...
News Polsky Center Launches Podcast to Mark 25 Years of The New Venture Challenge: “It’s Really Magical.” Startups weren’t so sexy 25 years ago. It was pre-Google, pre-dot-com bubble, pre-unicorn. The University of Chicago’s business school, renowned for finance, didn’t offer an entrepreneurship concentration. Steven Kaplan, a...
News Oncology Startup Takes Home First Place at 2023 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge as Judges Award $1.4M in Total Investment Alnair Therapeutics, a startup developing a platform technology to improve the delivery of drugs to difficult-to-treat cancers, has won first place in the 27th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
