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Creating a financial model to value water risk for businesses

Creating a financial model to value water risk for businesses

With water risk rising in some companies and basins as a more urgent problem than climate change, University of Michigan researchers have worked out a way to measure how it affects stock volatility.   Peter Adriaens, an entrepreneurship professor at the Zell Lurie...

US universities make big bets on startups

US universities make big bets on startups

The Zell Lurie Institute’s startup incubator program, Techarb, was recently featured on FRANCE 24, a leading 24/7 international news channel. Check out the article below to hear from U-M and Techarb alumni, Calvin Schemanski, and learn about his road to becoming an...

Premier Event Tops Sponsor’s Calendar

The Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) is a longtime partner and major sponsor of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS), providing support and promoting attendance at the annual event. “I think it’s become sort of the premier event of the year on the...

Venture Capital Know-How Pays Off in VCIC Semifinals

Venture Capital Know-How Pays Off in VCIC Semifinals

In addition to helping students excel as entrepreneurs, the Zell Lurie Institute and Ross also do a lot of exciting work preparing students that have the desire to go on to work in venture capital. Among the opportunities provided are the three student-led venture...

Michigan Entrepreneurship Leaders Forum

The Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has joined forces with Michigan State University’s Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Broad College of Business to create...