Excerpt from Olin Blog: WashU Olin Business School was Poets & Quants’ choice for 2022’s #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship. So, it’s only natural that the business school trade publication would team with us for an innovative showcase of startup ideas. And the winner pockets $50,000 to launch their idea.
That’s one of the announcements that emerged from a P&Q entrepreneurship live stream event today. The event highlighted business school entrepreneurship programs and featured panels by school alumni and students—including a panel of WashU Olin startup founders who discussed their companies and what they gained through their MBA education.
Dean Mark P. Taylor delivered the opening keynote for the event, which was a follow-up to P&Q‘s 2022 ranking of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs—a ranking WashU Olin topped for the third consecutive year.
“We are gathered here today to celebrate a phenomenon that’s become a bedrock part of our lives,” Taylor told viewers of the online event. “Never has entrepreneurship so strongly influenced the ways we live and learn and work and play. Inspiration is all around us, just waiting for someone to seize it.”
Later, three Olin students and an Olin alumnus participated in panel discussions: Kai Skallerud, MBA ’23; Lloyd Yates, MBA ’22; Rhonda Smythe, MBA ’22; and Daniel Schindler, MBA ’19, founder of Buoy. Schindler spoke to the question of why he embarked on an MBA while trying to launch a business. Read more here or watch on YouTube.