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Featured Faculty

Jeroen Swinkels Prof. Swinkels blogs about stimulus

Talented, Ambitious Students

Rukmini Sivaraman, 09 a member of the Kellogg School’s “Team Synergy” won first place against their seven competitors in the JPMorgan Mergers & Acquisition Challenge

Smart, Influential Alumni

With Trapped Bee Productions, filmmaking alum David Long ’98 takes flight

Corporate Partners in Experiential Lab Courses 2008-2009
The following venture capital and buyout firms partnered with Kellogg by offering projects for our students in the past year. These lab courses are offered in the fall, winter and spring terms.

2X Consumer Products LaSalle Capital Group
Adobe Ventures Longitude Capital
bioventures investors MK Capital
Ceres Ventures Madison Dearborn Partners
Code Hennessy & Simmons McNally Capital
Cornerstone Angels Merrick Ventures
DFJ Portage New Trier Partners
Early Stage Parteners OCA Ventures
First Analysis Prism Capital
Frontenac Company Seneca Health Ventures
Geneva Glen Capital Ceres venture Fund
Granite Creek Partners Merrick
Hadley Capital Silicone Pastures
Hispania Capital Partners Silver Oak Services Partners
Hopewell Ventures Sterling Partners
I2a Fund Waud Capital Partners
Illinois Ventures
Independence Equity

Firms and organizations listed here provided student projects in 2008 – 2009 for lab courses that are usually offered once or twice yearly: Analytical Consulting, Global, Management, Real Estate, and Sustainability.

ALTO (Chile) Landauer
Abbott Laboratories (US & Europe) Mitchell & Co. (Peru)
Azza Fahmy Jewelry (Egypt) Mozilla
Biomatters (New Zealand) Quality Control Corp
Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee Reliance (The Gambia)
Chlorophyll (India) Scanntech (Uruguay)
Compsis (Brazil) Social Value Exchange
DHL Express (Americas) Tixem
Ghana Leasing (Ghana) Turkish Airlines (Turkey)
KBB (Turkey) Woodtech (Chile)
Kibernum (Chile) Yeigo Communications (South Africa)

In the Medical Innovations Course, Kellogg students work with teams from three schools at Northwestern, Feinberg (Medical), McCormick (Engineering), and Law Schools - to develop or improve medical products. Here is the list of departments and products for 2008-2009.

General Surgery Urinary catheter
Urology Prostate gun; bladder biopsy device
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Drug delivery for post-operative pain;
transmyocardial device

Transapical valve replacement device; left atrial occlusion device
Orthopedics Weight assessment for rehab
Neurosurgery Wireless neurostimulator
Radiology Peripherally inserted central catheter guide wire; point of care diagnostic for catheter-related bacteremias


To learn more about sponsoring a student project, please contact Michele Rogers or go to Student Projects site.