WashU Expert: Small business plans should include ownership transition support
Peter Boumgarden, director of Olin Business School’s Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to expand the small business tax credit and other ways in which the government can support existing small businesses.
2024 presidential election experts
Washington University in St. Louis faculty experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to the election, politics and national and local issues.
New support for WashU startups, St. Louis region
The WashU Venture Network Follow-on Investments is a joint effort between WashU’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative.
Olin StartUp Grants to award $50,000 to WashU, St. Louis-based startups
WashU Olin Business School’s entrepreneurship program will award two $25,000 grants to WashU-founded or St. Louis-based startups. Applications are due by Oct. 1.
Comparing political parties’ economic outlook, plans
“Envy of the world” or a disgrace? Olin Business School’s John Horn discusses the state of the U.S. economy, President Joe Biden’s economic legacy and what to expect from a future Harris or Trump presidency.
When it’s the outside that counts
Alumna Katie Ireland shapes the ways everyday products are manufactured, packaged and brought to a store near you.
Competitive energy
Alumnus Deko Devins is on a mission to make solar power more widespread, affordable and accessible.
How ChiChi is disrupting the breakfast business
Chiara Munzi and Izzy Gorton met in a WashU entrepreneurship class and made their first batches of ChiChi hot chickpea cereal in the Skandalaris Center. Two years later, the brand is booming and the founders will be featured on the Amazon series “60 Day Hustle.”
Dennis Zhang
Olin Business School’s Dennis Zhang says online platform design is improved by considering human decision-making alongside information algorithms.
The motherhood entrepreneurs
WashU alumnae are founding companies with moms in mind, offering solutions for the raw, unfiltered realities of pregnancy and infant care.
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