MGFest09 Learning Gallery
"Opportunity Amidst the Chaos: Trends from the Trenches"
Raman Chadha, Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, DePaul University
The Talk
What’s happening at the street level during these tough times? What is the outlook amongst people who invest their own resources into creating organizations, jobs, and communities? Why and how are some companies actually thriving during this recession?
Raman Chadha will share some fascinating insights and trends that he is learning about through a series of interviews with people from Chicago’s entrepreneurial community – entrepreneurs, investors, and community leaders. He will also discuss why this primary market research is being undertaken and how it will be used.
Raman Chadha
Raman Chadha is the Executive Director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University, where he also teaches courses such as Entrepreneurship Strategy, New Venture Management, and Management of Innovation & Technological Change. Prior to joining DePaul, Raman founded and managed a consulting firm that served growth-oriented companies and start-ups, helping over 200 clients across various industries devise their growth strategies and plans. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
About The Coleman Center
Coleman Entrepreneurship Center is an outreach center offering consulting services, educational programs, and resources for students and entrepreneurs throughout Chicagoland. As part of DePaul’s highly acclaimed entrepreneurship program, the Center’s role is to help student-entrepreneurs launch and grow their ventures, as well as contribute to the vitality of Chicago’s entrepreneurial community.
Video was recorded at the Chicago Motion Design Summit, a Chicago Convergence partner event.