Entrepreneurs awarded $75,000 in annual Olin Cup competition

An on-line tutoring service and a device designed to make custom-fit earphones are the winners of the 2008 Olin Cup competition for entrepreneurs presented by the Olin Business School and Skandalaris Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The two winning companies, Virtual Nerd and Verto, emerged from an original field of 38 entrants to earn a $70,000 investment award and a $5000 cash prize respectively.

Olin Business School gears up for Super Ad Bowl IX

The most watched 33 and one half minutes on television will be celebrated, critiqued and analyzed on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 when the Olin Business School hosts its ninth annual Super Ad Bowl. Marketing professors and students will gather for the Super Bowl Sunday ritual of rating and ranking the commercials while raising funds to benefit Meds and Food For Kids, an organization dedicated to curing child malnutrition in Haiti.

Brostoff named associate dean

Mark J. Brostoff has been named associate dean and director of the Weston Career Center at Olin Business School. Brostoff, who began the position Jan. 9, is a retired commander in the U.S. Navy and earned a master’s degree in health administration from WUSTL in 1982. He graduated from Alfred University in 1980. He was […]
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