Business & Entrepreneurship

Startups built on WashU discoveries attracted a record $1.7 billion in private-sector investment over the past year, accelerating the commercialization of WashU innovations into life-changing diagnostics, therapeutics and medical devices.

The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis awarded $33,000 in funding to six student-founded startups at its fall Venture Competition.

A novel partnership of the Center for Experiential Learning and Bauer Leadership Center, both in Olin Business School, helps students gain much-in-demand leadership skills.

Andrew Knight, an expert in organizational behavior at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently installed as the Bank of America Professor.

Entrepreneurial employees who turn their ideas into successful internal ventures are significantly more likely to be promoted and, within large organizations, more likely to receive higher compensation, according to new research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Three engineering alumni who recently earned their degrees from Washington University in St. Louis won first place at the Collegiate Inventor’s Competition with a tool to help those with food allergies.

Panos Kouvelis, director of the Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation at WashU, has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, akin to a lifetime achievement award.

Prognosia, a biotech startup that harnesses AI-driven software to analyze mammograms to improve breast cancer risk prediction, was created by Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, and Shu (Joy) Jiang, PhD, both at WashU Medicine.

Recent research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis indicates that people can increase their potential for experiencing work-related epiphanies by engaging in a playful type of mind wandering known as “problem-solving daydreaming.”

WashU’s latest building renovation in Cortex will provide space and support for bioscience startups.