Page Where Are They Now? Episode 8 Episode 8: PrettyQuick June 3, 2021 Coco Meers’ career has centered on helping women look and feel their best. When she caught the entrepreneurship bug and looked for a pain...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
News Building a Winning Culture Should be a Key Part of Your Intentional Business Strategy The following article was written by Ellen Rudnick, senior adviser and adjunct professor for entrepreneurship at Booth, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on January 15, 2024. Read the...
Technology Protein Engineering Strategy for Enhancing Healing Of Chronic Diabetic and Radiation-Induced Wounds The problem: Chronic, non‐healing wounds have reached epidemic proportions and have a sustainable impact on both an individual’s quality of life and on healthcare costs as a whole The field…
Technology A New Genetic Medicine Strategy For Treating Neurological Disorders Synaptic transmission and plasticity are fundamental to neuronal functions, and alterations of synaptic protein expression are direct causes of autism, intellectual disability (ID), and epilepsy. De novo loss-of-function (LoF) mutations…
Technology Prophylactic Strategy For C. Difficile Infection Prevention This technology is a prevention method for those at risk of C. difficile infection using a mutated strain of C. difficile that reduces toxicity and competes with virulent strains, offering…
Page Local Business Owners local Business Owners Through the Polsky Exchange and the Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the Polsky Exchange, local business owners gain access to experienced advisors, educational programs, and...
News Balancing Pre- and Post-Letter of Intent Diligence in ETA: Strategy, Tradeoffs, and Winning the Auction Sponsored Content // Balancing diligence before and after signing a letter of intent (LOI) is one of the most important — and often overlooked — aspects of entrepreneurship through acquisition...
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 Seven Ways to Land Your First 100 Customers The following article was written by Melissa Harris, entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on February 19, 2024. Read the original article. You can’t...
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...
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...
