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At the kickoff of this year’s Entrepalooza, Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute, described the annual event as “a celebration of entrepreneurship across campus.” Nearly 350 students from a variety of academic disciplines gathered for the...
For the roughly one million people in the United States who are deaf or hard of hearing, and use American Sign Language, navigating a hearing world can be frustrating. Few hearing Americans are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), so written English becomes the...
While working as a data analyst for the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Alex VanDerKolk, BBA ’13, found himself elbow-deep in data that doctors were trying to use to plan the most effective and cost-efficient treatments for breast cancer...
PitchBook, a provider of private equity and venture capital research, released its annual list of the Top Universities for VC-Based Entrepreneurs. The University of Michigan was ranked No. 8, up from No. 13 in 2013. The list is based on PitchBook’s database of 13,000...
Blair Garrou, the managing director of Mercury Fund, a Houston-based seed-stage venture-capital firm, is spending a lot of time in Michigan and the Midwest these days. The firm is raising capital for its third fund and has closed on more than $100 million in...
Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, reported for the Financial Times on the most important business school takeaway for entrepreneurs--failure. In the article, Thornhill explains that an entrepreneur should be...
The Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance is holding its annual Private Equity class dinner today, sponsored by Chicago-based Glencoe Capital. During the dinner hosted by Professor David Brophy of the Ross School of Business, the class will participate...
Alex Rich, BBA ’11, was well on his way to building a successful investment-banking career in in New York City when he was “bitten by the entrepreneurial bug.” In June 2012, he left his position as an investment-banking analyst at Citigroup in Lower Manhattan and...
We are excited to announce that The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine have named the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute as the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the nation. This marks the fourth consecutive year we have appeared among...
While there may not be a perfect recipe to becoming your own boss, there are some things that you can do today to put yourself on the path toward entrepreneurship. Want to learn more? Jim Price shares his insight on the 12 most common ones, along with some honest talk...