The end of spring quarter means the start of storage season at Northwestern. Earlier this month, Northwestern Student Holdings, a student-run company that funds businesses serving the Northwestern and Evanston communities, launched its newest company, BoxCo. Two of the founders, juniors Nathan Katz and Alex Onsager took some time out of their schedules to answer [...]
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The Education of Neal Sales-Griffin
Let’s call it the Winklevoss dilemma. You’ve got it, the next big Internet sensation. The only problem is, well, you need a technical co-founder. Former Northwestern ASG president Neal Sales-Griffin (SESP ’09) thinks he can help. As the CEO of Code Academy, an intensive three-month programming course that attracts applicants from all over the world [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Kickstarter Brings the Wisdom of the Crowd to Funding
When Vancouver-born entrepreneur and engineer Eric Migicovsky thought of the idea for a new, “smart” watch, he went the traditional route, asking venture capitalists for help financing his investment. Yet, even after multiple attempts, Migicovsky was unable to secure any funding for his new project—the Pebble Watch, or just Pebble. But Migicovsky didn’t give up; [...]
Read the rest of this entry »VIDEO: Q&A with Nobel Prize Laureate Dale Mortensen
Check out our exclusive video interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Dale Mortensen, the Ida C. Cook Professor of Economics, as he talks with the Northwestern Business Review about search theory and its implications, the current state of the United States economy in an increasingly globalized marketplace and ongoing economic trends. This video was filmed by [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Can Lore Revolutionize Education Through Social Networking?
The concept of the social network has revolutionized the job search, personal photography, and the way people share music. The founders of Lore, formerly known as Coursekit, are hoping that the way that students interact, with teachers and among themselves, is social networking’s next disruptive innovation. In 2010, Joseph Cohen, Dan Getleman, and Jim Grandpre [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Closer Look Into Presidential Campaign Finance
It is widely known that the road to the White House is paved with dollar bills. Raising money is one of the most important tasks for any candidate and often the candidate with the most money is the one elected. With the upcoming Presidential race expected between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the case is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mark Pincus Brings Entrepreneurial Lessons and Leadership to Northwestern
Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, brought Silicon Valley to Northwestern University in a talk before 125 innovation-minded students and faculty members. The event, sponsored by the USA Today CEO Forum, revolved around Pincus’ career path and the lessons in perseverance, entrepreneurship, and leadership that have accompanied it. Taking questions from USA Today technology [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Investigating Northwestern’s Tuition Increases
As we enter the spring quarter of 2012, the future students of the Northwestern University Class of 2016 have received their acceptances and the University has announced another year of tuition hikes. Next year, tuition will rise to over $57,000. If annual tuition increases remain constant, a Class of 2016 student paying full tuition should be [...]
Read the rest of this entry »VIDEO: Q&A with Professor Mark Witte on the European Debt Crisis
Check out our exclusive video interview with Professor Mark Witte, senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and Director of the Business Institutions Program, as he talks with the Northwestern Business Review about the ongoing and constantly changing European sovereign debt crisis. This video was filmed by NBR videographers Alison Ho and Antonio Cavazos and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yahoo: The Rise and Fall of a Tech Giant
In today’s increasingly changing digital world, some technology companies thrive, while others fall. Facing difficulty in the sale of the company’s stock in Alibaba, Yahoo! Inc. is struggling to keep its relevance as the Internet media company attempts to redefine and revitalize its brand. But the story of Yahoo, a first-generation internet pioneer that was the [...]
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