Business & Entrepreneurship

As WashU’s vice chancellor for innovation and commercialization, Doug Frantz helps speed scientific discoveries into real-world therapies and devices. He works to develop strategic partnerships with industry and enhance WashU’s commercialization efforts.

Xiumin Martin, a leading accounting scholar whose research deepens our understanding of finance markets and directly informs accounting policy and corporate governance, was installed in November as the inaugural Margaret Oung Distinguished Professor at Olin Business School.

The markets essentially shrugged when the U.S. removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a special operation. But that could change if the U.S. follows through on other geopolitical threats, says political scientist Timm Betz at Washington University in St. Louis.

Everyone has reckoned with uncertainty. Should I switch majors? Can I be a better leader? Or, in the case of WashU alumnus Sam Goodwin, will I be slaughtered by my Syrian captors? Goodwin speaks about winning through uncertainty at Graham Chapel at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21.

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.