The Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable provides educational programs and seminars for business owners and their advisors as well as those who are interested in acquiring or starting a business.  Founded 20 years ago for the alumni of the Chicago Booth School of Business (then the Chicago GSB),  today the Roundtable is open to all. 

Programs feature successful entrepreneurs or experts in growing businesses speaking on topics such as ideas for new businesses, building a management team, locating financing, developing a market and growing through acquisition. Click Past Events for past topics.

Click on the Event Calendar for info on up-coming events and to register.

Membership in the Entrepreneurial Roundtable is free (no dues)

Once you join our email list , you become a member of this group 

For our evening programs, the event fee is $25 for the general public; $20 for members and alumni, students, and faculty of Chicago Booth, NIU and IIT.  Save an additional $5 by registering early.  Advance on-line registration is strongly encouraged.  Just click on the Event Calendar and the event for info and to register.  No credit cards are accepted at the door, only cash and checks.  

Evening programs are held on the third Monday of each month at Northern Illinois University's Naperville campus,1120 East Diehl Road in Naperville, Illinois.  They start at 6:30 p.m. with networking over hors d'oeuvres. The educational part of the program begins at 7:15 p.m. and ends about 8:45 p.m. (This timing allows people coming from downtown Chicago and the northern and southern suburbs to attend.)

Additionally, the Roundtable holds two to three evening programs and two to four all-day Saturday seminars each year at Chicago Booth's Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago.  The seminars explore special topics of interest to entrepreneurs in some depth.

To access free (but largely unedited) videos of more than 40 Roundtable programs, click on Podcasts.   Special thanks to Lambert Smith and Stone Cliff Productions for providing the videos.  For info on Stone Cliff Productions, go to http://www.stonecliffproductions.com/index.html

Thank you for your interest in the Roundtable.  We welcome your participation and your ideas!

Bill Wentz,  Roundtable Coordinator (Chicago Booth Class of 1988)

wwentz@huckbouma.com