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By Keith Breslauer2021-06-03T00:00:00+01:00 Like many people over the past year, I have become familiar with the arrival of an email that brings the news that an event has either been postponed or cancelled in its entirety, sometimes for the second year in a row. Keith Breslauer Whether it is a concert, a conference or a marathon, the organisers tend to state their regrets and their reasons before letting me know that they are looking forward to seeing me later this year or in 2022. Is it ...

From GrubHub to Braintree, a look back at the Polsky Center’s legacy of supporting startups Startups weren’t so sexy 25 years ago. It was pre-Google, pre-dot-com bubble, pre-unicorn. The University of Chicago’s business school, renowned for finance, didn’t offer an entrepreneurship concentration. Steven Kaplan, a newly tenured professor in 1996, had just started teaching a class in entrepreneurial finance when a student, Jeff Meyers, MBA’97, popped his head into hi...

Entrepreneurs in Uganda who received remote marketing coaching boosted sales on average by 51.7%. The remote coaching model offers the potential to drive growth in emerging markets

Bridging the Racial Gap in VC Funding Bridging the Racial Gap in VC Funding Booth’s Daniel Rogers, ’13, and Seyi Fabode, ’10, have won funding from a new Google program dedicated to bolstering promising Black-founded startups. By Melissa Brooks February 02, 2021 Across the United States, Black founders receive a fraction of the venture capital that white entrepreneurs do. In Chicago alone, just nine Black-founded sta...

High inflation and Covid-19 are forcing the poor in India to dip deeper into their savings Economists warn that rising prices may hamper future economic recovery because households would have no money to spend. Punit Paranjpe/AFP Gaurav Kumar Sharma is a heartbroken man. After the lockdown upended his livelihood for more than two months, he was relieved when things slowly returned to normal: shops and markets reopened, and people began stepping out of their homes. But as food inflation spik...