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Student selected for the Zell Lurie entrepreneurial grant program are dedicated to testing their new venture while earning their degree. These students have demonstrated the drive and entrepreneurial spirit that continues to flourish at the University of Michigan Fall...
By Joel Sensenig Zell Lurie Institute Helps MBA Student Develop High-End Label From the time she was two years old wearing a plastic smock in front of a paint-splattered canvas, Claire Pardington, MBA ’22, had an eye for art and fashion. Today, the graduate student...
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...
Kevin T. Conroy, the chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences, said entrepreneurial companies serve as the leading engines of job creation and economic development, and have helped to fuel Michigan’s rebound from the depths of recession. Speaking on Wednesday morning at the...
The Zell Lurie Institute was recently featured in the Monroe Street Journal in a story on Chat Sports’ chief operating officer Brett Scott. The article details how the Institute was able to connect Scott with Chat Sports during his MBA program and how that fostered a...
The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund was recently featured in Michigan Daily as a source of funding for the Ann Arbor start-up community. Below is an excerpt from the piece. “Though startups in Ann Arbor and within the University community are notably diverse, they...
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...
Since joining Flagship Ventures in 2012 as an associate in its Ann Arbor office, Michael Johnson has leveraged his University of Michigan medical and business degrees and entrepreneurial experience to help the Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered venture-capital...
First-year MBA candidate Erica Sivertson, MBA ’15, is building the foundation for her targeted career in consulting and entrepreneurial business at the Zell Lurie Institute. The Institute’s $5.5 million Wolverine Venture Fund has served as a “school within a school,”...
Flipsi, a reusable drinking bottle that takes cleaning out of the equation through design, placed second in the Greenlight Business Model Competition held at the Hannah Community Center in Lansing Michigan this past Wednesday. Flipsi, founded by Jeff Plott (MSE ’13)...