News
2022
SEPTEMBER
- Boston VC Bijan Sabet is Biden’s pick for Czech Republic ambassador. The well-known tech investor has also been a big donor to Democrats.
JANUARY
- Jebbit co-founder Tom Coburn ’13 is on a roll. In 2021, he drove the world’s leading zero-party data platform to record growth. This year, they scored $70 million in strategic growth capital.
2021
DECEMBER
- What’s in an award-winning elevator pitch? Big ideas and polished presentations. See who took top prizes in the 2021 Start@Shea Elevator Pitch Competition. Carroll School News
- “Resilient and destined to change the world.” That’s how Forbes described the four Carroll School alums named to their “30 Under 30” list last December. Carroll School News
MAY
- How does a startup land $3.65 million in seed funding? Learn how a breakthrough idea and perfect timing took Branick Weix ’19 and his co-founders to early-stage success for real estate content platform Aryeo.
APRIL
- Natalie White ’20 put her best foot forward to ensure women’s basketball gets the support it deserves. She created Moolah Kicks, a performance basketball shoe brand for women.
- The energy reached game show level as 11 teams pitched their startups via YouTube livestream for our annual Start@Shea Accelerator Demo Day. Carroll School News catches all the action.
MARCH
- Boston College students discuss the impact that the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship has had on their college experience.
FEBRUARY
- Double the class size, double the course length, and zero geographic boundaries. Discover the undeniable upside to TechTrek going virtual. Carroll School News
2020
NOVEMBER
- The first freshman to take top prize, two seniors disrupting global streetwear and more from the 2020 Shea Center Elevator Pitch Competition. Carroll School News has the story.
OCTOBER
- Forbes names Apple CMO and Schiller Institute namesake Phil Schiller ’82 “The World’s Most Influential CMO”of 2020. Learn why. Carroll School News
SEPTEMBER
- Where does innovation fit in a management curriculum? Dean Andy Boynton takes on this question and more in The Resonance Test, a podcast from Boston-based innovation design firm EPAM Continuum.Carroll SchoolNewshas the story.
APRIL
- ֱ Shea Center Startup Demo Day, live across eight time zones. ֱ News has the story.
- Give a virtual high-five to Allisonand Amy Ferreira, twin sisters, Carroll School of Management 2020 graduates, and newly minted Poets & Quants 2020 Best & Brightest Business Majors.
- The Shea Center’s virtual “Lunch with an Entrepreneur” series brings new meaning–and an exciting line-up of sought-after speakers–to a desktop near you. Carroll School News
- Watch ֱ Shea Center Startup Demo Day on .
2019
NOVEMBER
- The first Student-Administrator Forum of the year explored the future of STEM at ֱ and the vision for the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
- Student-founded startups from all over Boston competed in MIT’s Beantown Throwdown 2019. ֱ’s OurPet team took home a prize for its ingenious family pet-care app.
- Better bug spray. Nicer social media. Antidotes to payday loans. Check out the pitches and meet the winners of the fifth annual Shea Center Elevator Pitch Competition. Carroll School News
JUNE
- Sowing the seeds of tomorrow’s defiant problem-solvers, an alumnus is investing in the directorship of the Shea Center. With a generous gift from Joe ’89 and Chris Popolo, ֱ parents, Jere Doyle’87 is now the Popolo Family Executive Director at theEdmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship. Doyle, who has led the Center for five years, began his term as the newly-named director of the Shea Center on June 1.
MAY
- used vision, timing and the detached perspective of a fashion outsider to reinvent the clothing industry.has the story on the co-founder and CEO of ThredUP.
- His sheer list of accomplishments, for starters.asks the new alum about the classes, professors and experiences that drove him.
FEBRUARY
- knows what it takes to start and grow a business. Now he’s sharing his hard-earned knowledge as a ֱ entrepreneur-in-residence.has the story.
2018
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
MARCH
- Turning fishing nets into fashion, dolls into symbols of diversity, dinner into the ultimate campus perk. An update on Accelerate@SheaDemo Day.Carroll SchoolNews
FEBRUARY
2017
NOVEMBER
SEPTEMBER
- Three 2017 alums have launched Darkroom.Tech, an online marketplace where photographers can sell prints on demand and donate proceeds to local charities.
AUGUST
- Seven entrepreneurs. Five companies. Four years. How did these ֱ students do it? Two words: digital technology.ֱ Newshas the story.
JANUARY
- TheHeightsthat Exowear’s wearables will track and motivate people undergoing physical therapy.
2016
DECEMBER
- ֱ group aims to stem shortage of women in high tech. ֱ’s(WIN) is working to encourage more women to seek careers at the intersection of technology and business,.
NOVEMBER
- VC traces career success to ֱ. Peter Bell ’86 a partner at Highland Capital Partners,at a Shea Center Lunch with an Entrepreneur, “Everything I’ve done professionally has tied back to people from ֱ.”,The Heights
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- Shea Center will serve as academic partner forCompetition at Forbes Under 30 Summit,Boston College Chronicle
- Shea Center & Boston College selected asfor Forbes Under 30 Summit Change-the-World-Competitions,ֱ News
- about Shea Center & Boston College's partnership with Forbes for their Under 30 Summit Competitions,Forbes
- to award $1M to young entrepreneurs,Boston Globe
- Ashton Kutcher and Forbes partner with Boston College to host startup competitions,Boston Business Journal
- with prize amounts up to $1M,BostInno
MAY
- Learn aboutfrom this year's Shea Venture Competition,ֱ News
- Read about the 2016,Boston College Chronicle
- Shea Center's Jere Doyle & Kelsey Kinton recieve the,The Heights
APRIL
- , ֱ student team to participate in Atlantic Coast Conference’s inaugural ACC InVenture Prize competition
JANUARY
- Brian Harrington '89, former Zipcar EVP & CMO, joins Shea Center as first,Boston College Chronicle
2015
DECEMBER
- Learn about the namesake and inspiration behind the Shea Center inLight the World.
- Entrepreneurship in the Morrissey College,The Heights
- The Shea Center partnered with Rough Draft Ventures to set up office hours with ֱ grad and CEO of Jebbit.he shared about being a student entrepreneur.
NOVEMBER
- The Heightsreported on Meet @ Shea event calling it
- The Heightscover theby Phil Schiller during the Shea Center Dedication and Inaugural Symposium.
- Shea Center Dedication and Inaugural Symposium,Boston College Chronicle
OCTOBER
- BostInnocovers the Boston College.
- ֱ-educated designer Alex Truesdell is a“genius,” winning the award for her work with adaptive toys and furniture for disabled children.
- A clutch of Eagles—Tom Coburn of, Chase McAleese of, and Riley Soward of—have been named players in the Boston startup scene by.
- LA Timesreported on
SEPTEMBER
- discusses the launch of the new entrepreneurship center and what it means for the University.
AUGUST
- reports that Apple's marketing cheif will help launch ֱ's new entrepreneurship center.
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- Boston College is the latest Univeristy to form,Boston Globe, BetaBoston.