Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship

Teaming up for Innovation & Design Club’s first-ever innovation challenge

I had no idea what to expect when I signed up as a “free agent” for the Innovation and Design...

Justin McCarthy

July 10, 2019

Starting Our Own Company at Booth. Entrepreneurial Boothies Tell All

During orientation at Booth, we had the opportunity to hear from Booth Alumni from a variety of different backgrounds. Their...

Polsky Accelerator: Thoughts, Shots, and ‘Bots

I came to Booth with the express purpose of starting a company using the knowledge and experience from my MBA....

Will Fischer

November 12, 2018

Why is Entrepreneurship the most popular concentration at Booth?

If you asked people what is Booth’s predominant concentration, you would likely get an answer like Finance or Economics. With...

Monisha Shivakumar

October 29, 2018

From my Notes: PE Conference Takeaways

In February, I had the opportunity to attend the 17th Annual Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company Private Equity Conference, hosted...

George Boghos

April 11, 2018

Growing my Social Impact Startup at Chicago Booth

I’m dual a degree MBA/MPP full time student, and I also run a social enterprise. KitcheNet provides urban food deserts...

Trista Li

March 12, 2018

NVC Series: NVC Finals Live

This is the first time we are running a live stream of the NVC Finals as well as a Twitter...

Ray Liu

May 31, 2017

NVC Series: A few words with Professor Kaplan

New Venture Challenge (NVC) is possibly the most well-known competition at Booth as well as one of the most famous...

Oma Nwabudike

April 6, 2017

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...

Sara Raffa

October 30, 2015