Startup Spotlight: i4Spy
Last year, I took my startup, Eislee, through the Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC )– a track of the New Venture Challenge with a focus on launching social enterprises. With the 2016 SNVC under way, I wanted to spotlight one of the amazing teams in this year’s competition. The following is a guest blog post by Lavinia Popinceanu, a […]
Live Chat with Us!
On May 26th from 12-1pm CT, a handful of us bloggers from The Booth Experience team will be available to answer all your questions in a live chat. Ask us about classes, student life, faculty, recruiting, and anything else you want to know about Booth and our ridiculously awesome community. Just don’t ask if we are ready […]
Startup Spotlight: TransparentMBA
In case you hadn’t noticed, Booth is abuzz with Entrepreneurship. Each Spring, the New Venture Challenge (NVC) kicks off, and the excitement is present all over Harper Center. NVC strategy sessions fill the Winter Garden, customer research interviews consume the conference rooms, and venture capitalists and famous entrepreneurs roam the halls to help with judging and coaching sessions. The latest […]
Common myths about the flexible curriculum and cohort system
Anyone who reads about Booth is sure to stumble upon two key differentiators: our flexible curriculum and our cohort system. Through discussions with dozens of prospective students, I’ve noticed that they tend to love the former and show some concern about the latter. When I was applying, I too shared a lot of these feelings. But […]
Booth for the Holidays
This past November and December, Boothies celebrated the winter holidays together, all over the world – 400 students crashed Aspen for a week for our annual Ski Trip, hundreds went on career treks from San Francisco to Dubai, and endless more celebrated classmates’ weddings, spent time with family, or traveled to new cities. We asked all of […]
How Boothies Spend Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving is a time to relax, eat way too much food, and enjoy some time off before the last week of classes for the winter quarter. I personally spent my Thanksgiving break at home in DC with my family, and while going home may be the norm, it’s by no means the only way Boothies […]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! What are we thankful for…?
With Thanksgiving comes a whole mix of emotions for most of us here at Booth. Excitement for all the fun holidays activities – whether it be the long Thanksgiving weekend, countdown to Ski Trip, the many ugly sweater parties or even the first snow of the season (which just so happened to hit Chicago this […]
From Business Idea to Reality
Hi readers! My name is Sara Raffa and I’m one of your editors of TBE. I’m also a second year student here at Booth, pursuing a not so traditional path of entrepreneurship – more specifically, building my own start-up. Throughout this past year at Booth, I’ve taken my business from just an idea in a journal to an actual company, and […]
Meet the New Team via Video
For the past several weeks, all eleven of us on your new TBE team have been hard at work at our internships, and we can’t wait to tell you about those experiences in the coming weeks. We are even more excited to get back to Harper Center to start sharing our perspectives on what it really […]