Business & Entrepreneurship

These WashU alumnae innovators and entrepreneurs have reached dizzying heights of success in the fields of fashion, tech, media and design.

Social entrepreneurship at Washington University is strong with faculty, students and alumni creating change around the world. Here are four examples.

Founder and CEO of NUDEST, Atima Lui, sells software that uses machine-learning to match skin tone as a service to beauty and fashion brands.

WashU nurtures women entrepreneurs through training, mentoring, funding and real-world experience. This is their story.

Washington University in St. Louis is showcasing the talent and creative energy of some of our most innovative female innovators and entrepreneurs.

A new study by a group of business school researchers, including Washington University’s Daniel Elfenbein of Olin Business School, used a computational model to interpret decision-making, learning and experiences that end in an entrepreneur’s success and failure in market entry and exit.

An Olin Business School analysis of more than 550 million items sold by individuals on eBay in 2015 and 2016 — transactions totaling $22.3 billion — signals that we’re more likely to buy goods from someone we perceive comes from a similar political persuasion.

A new study led in part by Olin Business School’s Todd Gormley finds that increasing numbers of passive investors is encouraging activism targeted at board makeup changes, proxy settlements and the sale of the business or its parts.

Olin Business School’s Daniel Gottlieb was part of a group of researchers conducting an economic behavioral study on how a consumer’s moral compass points him or her to repay debts. The group borrowed from Muslim teachings.

Thanks to a $500,000 gift from Cliff Holekamp and his father, Bill Holekamp, known as the Holekamp Seed Fund, Olin Business School now offers up to 20 grants a year of $1,000 to students who need a small injection of capital to get a startup business off the ground.