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Alumni & Mentors

300+ professional mentors work with students through officially sponsored school programs a year. Northwestern is ranked 8th in the country for number of MBA serial founders. Founded by Northwestern alumni: Zico, Crate & Barrel, Match, OpenTable, Bonobos. * Fifty-two alumni from Kellogg School of Management founded two or more separate companies garnering venture financing between 2016 and 2017.

Alumni stories

Growing a way out of poverty

While studying at Kellogg, Andrew Youn devised a business solution to poverty in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. His nonprofit, One Acre Fund, provides smallholder families with equipment, training and market facilitation.

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Engineering solutions for the elderly

Alumni Matthew Wilcox and Donovan Morrison founded Luna Lights while they were engineering students. The company uses a variety of technical solutions to prevent and respond to falls by senior citizens.

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Building local Entrepreneurship

Howard Tullman made a name for himself as a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. In addition to starting more than a dozen businesses, he was the CEO of 1871 incubator space, a hub of Chicago's entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Read about Howard Tullman