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  • Investing Essentials: Introduction to Corporate Venture Capital

    Gleacher Center, Room 308 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, United States

    Join the Polsky Center and Career Services for a workshop featuring Polsky Investor-in-Residence Dipa Mehta, MBA ’12, cofounder and managing partner, Valeo Ventures. This workshop is an introduction to Corporate Venture Capital and explores the goals of CVC organizations, how to structure CVC organizations, how to measure success in CVC, and how to compare CVC to...

    • College Students
  • Investing Essentials: Value Creation in Uncertain Times

    Gleacher Center, Room 308 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, United States
    Hybrid Event

    “Draw down your revolvers and batten down the hatches!” is the advice many savvy PE investors offer portfolio companies in a downturn. Savvy PE investors, however, also go looking for opportunities. Intuitively, downturns provide great opportunities for accretive M&A at attractive prices. Counterintuitively for most PE backed companies, downturns can also provide opportunities to create...

  • Investing Essentials: Careers in Early-Stage Private Equity (PE)

    Gleacher Center, Room 308 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, United States

    Are you interested in a career in private equity, particularly in the exciting and dynamic early-stage sector? Join us for an insightful workshop led by Duane Jackson, Investor-in-Residence at the Polsky Center and a seasoned expert in the field of private equity. This workshop will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the early-stage private...

    • investing essentials
  • Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Workshop: Legal Aspects of ETA

    Gleacher Center, Room 308 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, United States

    The Polsky Center is pleased to host Raam Jani, partner at BakerHostetler, for an interactive presentation on the legal side of Entrepreneurship through Acquisition investments and deals. A partner in BakerHostetler’s business group, Jani has a varied corporate practice that includes middle-market private equity, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and search fund/entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA)...

    • Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
  • Polsky Overview for Chicago Booth Evening/Weekend Program Students

    Gleacher Center, Room 308 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, United States

    Join the Polsky Center during the lunch break for an info session and founder talk. Polsky staff from the student programs team and the Deep Tech Ventures team will present on ways to engage with Polsky programs for the first half of the event. The second half will feature Ryan Meyers MBA '23. Ryan cofounded...

    • Graduate Entrepreneurs