News 11th Annual Booth-Kellogg ETA Conference Hosts Record Number of Attendees Earlier this month, the Polsky Center, ETA Group at Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted the annual Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference. The eleventh iteration of the...
News ‘It’s the American Dream’: Polsky Exec Talks Family-Owned Businesses, Innovation, and Education Family businesses are the engine that runs the economy, says Polsky executive Dan Sachs, who speaks to the importance of supporting those contributors. We caught up with Sachs, who is...
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...
News Business Insider Names 8 Women Entrepreneurs Under 30 to Watch in 2021 In recognition of the disproportionately negative effect that COVID-19 has had on women-owned businesses, citing research published by the University of California at Santa Cruz, Business Insider recently published a list of young women...
Event Polsky Exchange Capital Access: First Women’s Bank May 6, 2025 Speaker: Jonathan Thrasher, Senior Vice President, Government Guaranteed Lending and Commercial Lending, First Women’s Bank. First Women’s Bank is the only women-founded, women-owned and women-led commercial bank in the country...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 4 Episode 4: Simple Mills May 6, 2021 Katlin Smith, founder and CEO of Simple Mills, wowed her first buyer with a muffin recipe using almond flour. Now the Chicago-based natural...
News UChicago, Northwestern University and JPMorgan Chase Join Forces To Grow Business And Jobs Three-year partnership will fund new programs to support minority-owned business on south and west sides The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are beginning a three-year partnership to support the...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 2 Episode 2: ExplORer Surgical April 22, 2021 Jennifer Fried, MBA ’15, started her MBA at Chicago Booth with dreams of a career in venture capital. By the time she graduated,...
News Entrepreneurs Need to Start Paying Themselves Correctly. Here’s How The following article was written by Abigail Ingram, executive director of the Polsky Exchange. Entrepreneurs and those who work with entrepreneurs know that most do not pay themselves the salary...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 5 Episode 5: Foxtrot May 13, 2021 Foxtrot cofounder and CEO Mike LaVitola, MBA ’14, has become expert at hearing “no.” He was not initially accepted into the New Venture Challenge,...
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...
