University of Chicago GSB

Sponsors

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship is grateful for the generous support of the 2007-08 NVC sponsors.

Title

Edward L. Kaplan, '70
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Zebra Technologies
Kaplan, a supporter of entrepreneurial vision, has been the title sponsor of the New Venture Challenge since its inception in 1996. He is a member of the Polsky Center's Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.

Prize

Mitsubishi Corporation
What was originally founded in 1870 as a shipping firm, Mitsubishi has become a worldwide conglomerate of more than 100 companies in such industries as automobile, banking, mining, real estate, insurance, manufacturing, construction, and hotels.

Kuczmarski Chicago Innovation Awards
Chicago Sun-Times and Kucsmarski

The Chicago GSB’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship has been awarded a $5000 Kuczmarski Innovation Scholarship by the innovation consulting firm Kuczmarski & Associates.  The scholarship check was presented to the Polsky Center on Monday, November 22 during the 6th

Annual Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony held at

Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. 

kuczmarksi The awards were co-founded by Kuczmarski and the Chicago Sun-Times to celebrate the creative spirit of the Chicago region.

 

Platinum

Google

Google operates websites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being Google.com. Google is widely recognized as the world's best search engine. The company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and
site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide
range of revenue-generating search services.

Market Strategy Group, LLC
Clients engage Market Strategy Group to achieve or get back on track toward achieving Smart Growth- double-digit growth in operating profits. MSG's goal is to deliver what clients value most: insights and results that drive growth.

Gold

Reed Smith LLP
Reed Smith is a global-relationship law firm acknowledged as a leading advisor to many of the world's foremost companies in industries including financial services, life sciences, shipping, energy, trade and commodities, advertising, technology and media, and more.

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP is a Chicago firm providing legal services to a diverse group of clients in a wide array of domestic and global business transactions and litigation matters. Their clients include privately and publicly held companies, financial institutions, non-profit organizations and high net worth individuals.



 

Frank Ballentine of Reed Smith
NVC judge and sponsor, Frank Ballentine of Reed Smith (right), speaks with NVC participants at the finals networking reception.