University of Chicago JD/MBAs Participate in Booth Case Competitions
In the Leadership Challenge competition, Jonny (back row, fourth from left) teamed up with a fellow classmate to recommend growth solutions for a California winery. The ideas were pitched to executives in finance, consulting, and industry. Jonny’s team received high marks for creativity and collaboration with the opposing team.
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University of Chicago JD/MBA graduation
Howard Marks at Chicago Booth
JD/MBAs win in Chicago Booth NVC
From: Polsky Center <pr@chicagobooth.edu>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Subject: [Second-year-mba] Announcing the 2011 NVC Winners
To: Polsky Center <pr@chicagobooth.edu>
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| After a day of outstanding presentations by the 10 finalist teams, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to announced the winners of the 15th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, '71, New Venture Challenge:
The runners-up - Line I Jump, mHealth Solutions, NewDog Technology, Owl Invest, playence, and Real-Time Analytics - each received $2,000 in seed funding. The winner of the inaugural People's Choice Award is Sibl.us. They received a $1,000 cash prize. Congratulations to all the teams that participated in the NVC – this truly was an exceptional year! |
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UChicago JD/MBA Foils Thief!
John Ashcroft visits Chicago Law
Get $20,000 to write school papers
From left to right: Prof Kenneth Dam, Prof Richard Epstein, Prof William Landes, Judge Richard Posner, and Prof Ronald Coase. Collectively, this group has written over 600 academic papers, and over 100 books.
While in graduate school, I've written 4 papers that have earned a total of $20,000. $10,000 for the Olin and Kauffman Student Fellowships, $5,000 Turnaround Management Association research grant, $3,000 for winning the Carl Marx national paper competition, and $2,000 (cash equivalent) for the St. Gallen student competition and symposium. Two of these papers also counted for class credit. I mention this because I hope to convince you that you too can make just as much money (or more) for papers you already write, especially at Chicago Booth and the University of Chicago Law School, which requires 2 substantial papers to graduate.
In this 3 part series, I will tackle coming up with a paper idea, then strategy for paper competitions and research grants, and finally getting course credit and publication. Honestly, if I can do it, you can too, especially since I am not a particularly talented writer nor am I learned in most areas of the law.Initially, I would agonize for months trying to think of paper ideas, so I looked at many published papers. There are three basic categories of student papers: the theoretical or explanatory, the contradictory, and the empirical.
Chicago Booth NVC - Phase Two Announcement
The Chicago Booth New Venture Challenge has kicked off and a team founded by two JD/MBAs (Nikhil Abraham '10 and Matthew Kopko '11) has made it to Phase Two. The business description is below.
Sibylus
Sibylus obtains supplemental educational curriculum materials used in college and graduate courses for a fraction of the price charged by traditional content providers. Sibylus sources content by leveraging publicly available information, utilizing databases students already have licenses to use, and securing copyrights directly from rightsholders.
Check out all the businesses that made it past the feasibility summary after the jump!
Chicago Law Moot Court
Moot Court is an annual ritual at law schools around the country. The above video shows Georgetown's moot court final competition with 4 federal appellate judges (McKeown, Kavanaugh, Gajarsa, and Smith) and former Solicitor General (Clement) grilling a student much like Supreme Court justices grill lawyers arguing before the Court. (Hey UChicago, tape the Moot Court finals so I can put our own video up there!)
I recently participated in the Hinton Moot Court semi-finals at the University of Chicago Law School. Approximately 90 people competed in the first round and presented two oral arguments, for petitioner and respondent each, in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. Twelve students were then selected to participate in the semi-finals, and four of those students have now advanced to the final round, where they will argue before three sitting federal appellate judges in the spring quarter. Congratulations to Kevin Swartz, Andrew Grindrod, Annie Wagner, and Faye Paul!
Chicago Booth VCIC
My team, Midway Ventures, came in second place this year. Last year the team I was on won the Chicago Booth competition (and regionals and nationals!), and two years ago the team I was on placed second. Competing in the competition for the last three years has taught me some great lessons.
