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Executive leaders of the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club at Michigan Ross, George Okpamen and Austin Sivik, share their views on the Silicon Valley Experience with the Zell Lurie Institute. Traveling during business school with fellow Wolverines is an...
MBC Seigle Impact Track Spotlight The 2021 Finals for the Michigan Business Challenge (MBC), are quickly approaching! The week leading up to the campus-wide business plan competition, the Zell Lurie Institute will highlight the innovative teams advancing from the MBC...
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies was established at the University of Michigan Business School with an endowment of $10 million from Samuel Zell and Ann Lurie, on behalf of her late husband Robert H. Lurie, in 1999. Twenty...
More opportunities for student -- and alumni -- entrepreneurs at Ross are in the works thanks to a new gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies has received a pledge of $60 million from the...
In keeping with this year’s Entrepalooza theme, “Entrepreneurship through a Kaleidoscope,” seven entrepreneurs from highly diverse backgrounds shared their personal and professional stories of entrepreneurial passion, challenge and triumph with U-M students on Friday,...
Executive Director Stewart Thornhill traveled to London in October where he had the chance to sit down with Times Higher Education to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship at the university level. You can listen to Thornhill’s full interview on the Times...
While we always place an emphasis on entrepreneurship, this month Ross is pushing elections and Turkey to the side to highlight National Entrepreneurship Month. Some of the entrepreneurship-related activity going on in November includes information sessions for the...
Do you have questions about offerings at the Zell Lurie Institute? Are you a current (or future) U-M student who wants to better understand the opportunities available to you by getting involved with us? Join us at 11:00am ET on Thursday, November 13 for our...
In need of some midweek reading? Catch up on a BusinessBecause article all about MBA entrepreneurs and the funds investing in them, including the Wolverine Venture Fund at Ross. From the article: “Set-up in 1997, Wolverine, which operates out of the Michigan Ross...
At the conclusion of Entrepalooza 2014, Michigan students from a variety of disciplines sat down to Lunch and Learn with the event speakers, who included successful start-up company founders, corporate entrepreneurship professionals and members of the U-M faculty. The...