News Two Booth Alums Named Among Private Equity’s ‘Most Influential Women of Today and Tomorrow’ The Wall Street Journal’s Private Equity Analyst has named two University of Chicago Booth School of Business alums, Katie Ossman, MBA ’13, and Amy Christensen, MBA ’11, to its annual...
News New Biopharma Manufacturing Company Founded by Booth Alum Robert Nelsen Raises $800 Million RESILIENCE (National Resilience, Inc.) is a new company founded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alum Robert Nelsen, MBA ’87 – with a commitment to tackling some of...
News Persistence in PE: Looking to Past Performance to Predict Future Success A recently published research paper presents new evidence on the persistence of US private equity (PE) funds by examining cash-flow data from a large sample of institutional investors. “There’s been...
News Polsky Center’s First-Ever ETA Week Puts “Buy and Build” Model of Entrepreneurship on Center Stage The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is putting the ‘buy and build’ model of entrepreneurship on a global stage, hosting a first-ever ETA Week...
News The Future of Media and Entertainment is New Experiences, Distribution Models, Not ‘Just Another Streaming Service’ The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has continued its Entrepreneurial Outlook series with a discussion about the state of the media and entertainment industry – how it has had...
News 31 Teams Selected to Advance to Phase II for the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the 31 teams advancing to Phase II of the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC)....
News NVC@25 Fireside Chat: Ben & Frank Cofounder Mariana Castillo To mark the 25th anniversary of the Edward L. Kaplan ’71 New Venture Challenge, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is hosting a series of fireside chats with alums...
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 Special Report >> Deep Tech Deep Dive: In the Lab, On the Market, and What Comes Next What is deep tech? Defining a relatively nascent space is difficult as those involved grapple with finding a common language – this is an issue even in well-established industries. However,...
News 12 Startups to Compete for At Least $1 Million in the 25th Anniversary Finals of the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the 12 teams selected to compete in the finals of the 25th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture...
News Record $1.6 Million Awarded in the 25th Anniversary Finals of Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge; First-Place Winner Andes STR Lands More Than $660,000 The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University if Chicago has announced a record-breaking investment of $1.6 million in the winners of the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
News How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Research Paper Tackling That Question Receives Top Prize From Journal of Financial Economics A prominent journal in academic finance has awarded top honors to a research paper that used hard data to demystify how venture capitalists select deals and think about the success...
