The Michigan Zell Lurie Institute is proud to present an evening with Stewart Thornhill, Executive Director, as he talks about what it takes to "swim with the sharks" and be successful in launching and growing a startup in today's business environment. He will dissect an episode of the hit show, "Shark Tank" with interactive opportunities for the audience to analyze deals of featured entrepreneurs. This presentation will be followed by networking and light refreshments.
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We thank Bloomberg Government and the Michigan Entrepreneurship Club for supporting the event.
Fun Fact
Alumni from the University of Michigan have many opportunities to participate in programs at the Zell Lurie Institute. The Institute hosts entrepreneurial events throughout the year; offering funding and accelerator opportunities, and helping to grow and scale businesses. Over the past decade, U-M grads launched 336 companies!
Bio
Stewart Thornhill, Executive Director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, serves as the Eugene Applebaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and the Managing Director of the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund. He joins Ross from Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario, where he served as the executive director of the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship and a member of the faculty, focused on strategy and entrepreneurship. At Ivey, he championed a number of new initiatives and has sizable experience helping entrepreneurs through his involvement in QuantumShift, an Executive Development program for high-growth entrepreneurs. Thornhill's extensive background also includes global experience, having held the Karel Steur chair in entrepreneurship at the Universidad de San Andreas, Buenos Aires and various professorial roles at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in France and the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Dr. Thornhill's research interests include strategic execution, leadership, competitive strategy, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in several top management journals and he has published more than 20 teaching cases. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, and the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and also holds a B.Sc. (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA with a concentration in Finance. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, he worked as a manufacturing engineering and a radio journalist.
