News Polsky Center Revitalizes Small Business Growth Program with New Funding from JPMorgan Chase The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is expanding programming that fuels local small business growth and improves the economic health of communities. Funded by a $400,000...
Program Small Business Financial Fundamentals Build stronger financial management skills to help support and grow your business.
News Record-Setting NVC Alum Talks Passion, Growing Pains, and Putting Her Foot Down Breaking boundaries means knowing when to make unpopular decisions for Jilian Fenton, the founder and CEO of My Art Cache – which brought in a record-setting prize during the 2019...
News Small Business Spotlight: Qui Solutions Unlocks the Potential Behind BIPOC and Woman-owned Businesses Qui Solutions – a global member-based remote staffing and consulting agency – wasn’t TeQuila Cooper-Shabazz’s first attempt at building a business. In fact, she had spent seven years building two...
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 #SBDC Day Q&A: How Will the New Small Business Development Center at the Polsky Exchange Help Chicago’s South Side? SBDC Day, held this year on March 15, is an annual celebration of the nation’s 1,000 Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), a network of federally-funded sites that provide no-cost, one-one-on...
News Polsky Center Announces 2026 E-Commerce Growth Blueprint Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the 2026 cohort for the Polsky Exchange’s E-Commerce Growth Blueprint Program, a hands-on program designed to help small businesses strengthen their...
Page Entrepreneurs-in-Residence The Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program is open to current students and alumni and provides mentorship and coaching to University of Chicago students. Successful Chicago-based entrepreneurs are available to meet throughout the...
News Small Business Spotlight: How Diversity Connected Helps Companies Turn Chaos into Clarity For more than two decades, Sara Gregory has been the head of Diversity Connected, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in operational excellence, project management, event execution, and data analytics....
News Small Business Spotlight: Sarah Ware, a Change Agent in Chicago Real Estate Real estate has historically been a white man’s game, and continues to be so at leadership levels. During its 139-year history, the Chicago Association of REALTORS® (CAR) has had only...
News Small Business Spotlight: Nicole Jordan’s Catering and Consulting Businesses Show “You Can Be Small But Not Small-Minded” After a decade working as a consultant, UChicago alum Nicole Jordan, AB ’96, found herself at a crossroads. With a degree in economics and aspirations to be an entrepreneur, Jordan...
News Three Chicago Companies Are Named Best Workplaces for Women in Tech At the Grace Hopper Conference, the largest gathering of female technologists in the world, held last week in Houston, Texas, there was some good news and bad news about the...
