Winners announced for spring 2017 and “Best of the Best” in the Rensselaer Change the World Challenge; Class of 1951 Student Entrepreneurship Award winners also announced
Three First-Year Darden MBA students at the University of Virginia receive the 2017 Genovese Fellowships
Features Barker Squire, the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business MBA student
Tad Davis helps promote innovation and entrepreneurialism throughout campus and across the country.
Babson College announced its 2017 B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge winners—DetraPel, TORq Interface, and botkeeper—after a venture showcase with 18 semifinalists and a pitch competition between nine ultimate finalists.
You don’t need the charisma of Steve Jobs to be an effective boss, indicates new research led by Michigan State University business scholars.
The 2017 CEIBS Private Wealth Investment Forum — the University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ fourth annual investing summit in Shanghai, hosted in partnership with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) — brought together about 300 investors, industry leaders and experts, and academics on 8 April to discuss global market trends, capital flows and investing opportunities.
Over the course of a 25-year career at TPG Capital, Chief Investment Officer Jonathan Coslet has played a leading role in steering the company to the heights of the private equity industry.
Thomas Cunnington MBA ’63 , Partner, Cunnington & Cunnington and Former Chief Executive Officer, Ward Williston Oil Co., and Laurie Cunnington, Partner, Cunnington & Cunnington and Former President, Ward Williston Oil Co. will be inducted into The Babson College Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame on April 13, 2017. The Hall of Fame celebrates Babson alumni who have distinguished themselves in entrepreneurial endeavors across all types of enterprises, and recognizes each for their accomplishments in creating economic and social value.
From a proposal to create synthetic amino acids to help meth babies recover from addiction to the design of a new type of robotic joint to simplify complex movements, some inventive ideas of several Missouri University of Science and Technology students are a step closer to reality thanks to the university’s Miner Tank project.
Babson Strategy Lecturer Peter Cohan has authored Disciplined Growth Strategies: Insights from the Growth Trajectories of Successful and Unsuccessful Companies. The book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth.
Features Darden alumnae Lisa Parks, Peggy Roberts, Kristin Gunther and Courtney McCarthy and their careers in private equity
UVA Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka and co-author Randy Salzman discuss growth through design thinking and offer five keys to achieving a core competency in innovation.
An account of the talk given by Michael Foods CEO Jim Dwyer (MBA ’82) at a recent UVA Darden Leadership Speaker Series event
UVA Darden Professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt interviews Barbara Byrne, vice-chair of investment banking at Barclays. They discuss the importance of diversity, the success of the Barclays Women in Leadership Total Return Index, Brexit, and why this is the opportune moment to go into investment banking.
Seven health-tech startups will showcase their innovations and inventions April 19 at a Demo Day for investors, health professionals and the media. The seven have just completed a three-month intensive tech boot camp known as the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars, which helps startups bring their ideas and innovations to the marketplace.
Babson College, the top-ranked college in the United States for the study of entrepreneurship, and Junior Achievement USA®, the country’s leading organization giving young people the knowledge and skills to own their economic success, have partnered to offer a $20,000 per year merit scholarship for a Junior Achievement USA student selected from applicants to Babson from across the country.
GE Chairman & CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt, CyPhy Works CTO & Founder Helen Greiner, Northwestern University Prof. Jan D. Achenbach, and Ravenwood Golf Club Managing Partner David Reh will speak at commencement and be awarded honorary degrees by Clarkson University.
Individualized coaching is a key part of graduate and undergraduate degree programs at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. But with the establishment of a new leadership center, the Kelley School will offer personalized executive coaching to business professionals looking to meet personal and business goals.
The number of older adults who are self-employed outweighs that of young adults, suggesting that people of 50 years and older still have a significant role to play in economies around the world—this according to a new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Special Report on Senior Entrepreneurship.
Deadline for 2017 Public-Private Partnership Award is extended
Robert van Renesse, Cornell CIS research professor, has been awarded a research grant from eBay to help support the Consus transactional key-value store. The funds help enable a research assistantship for Robbert’s PhD student, Robert Escriva.
The Board of Trustees of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) today announced the appointment of Henry C. “Hank” Foley, Ph.D., as NYIT's fourth president, effective June 1. Foley has been serving as interim chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia since November 2015.
Wichita State University and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, announced today a strategic partnership to increase collaboration and advance the Wichita manufacturing industry.
To further accelerate wine industry education, innovation and research, a new partnership has been formally announced between the University of Adelaide in South Australia, and KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, France.
Entrepreneur and international business leader Harry Susilo has been honored by Babson College with induction into the Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs® (ADE) during ceremonies at Babson Connect: Worldwide Entrepreneurial Summit in Thailand on March 25, 2017.
Prof. Ross Levine found evidence that a company’s legal status—incorporated or unincorporated—can be used as a reliable measure to distinguish entrepreneurs from other business owners.
Pro Football Hall of Famer and eight-time Pro Bowler Emmitt Smith will be this year’s keynote speaker for Mentor Tech’s 15th Annual Celebration Banquet at 7 p.m. April 13 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall. The banquet is a chance for parents, alumni and community members to celebrate program participants and graduating seniors for the 2016-17 academic year.
On March 30, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and esteemed alumnus, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, unveil the Steve and Jamie Chen Center for Innovation and Inquiry (IN2). The unveiling is at 4:30 pm, 1500 Sullivan Road, Aurora.
Very often there are people behind the scenes of scientific advances, quietly organizing the project's logistics. New facilities and big collaborations require people to create schedules, manage resources, and communicate among teams. Brookhaven National Laboratory is lucky to have Xiaofeng Guo in its ranks.
The IGI has selected two scientists for its one-of-a-kind "Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program," pushing transformative scientific products to the market by supporting vital foundational research and professional networking for two years. Awardees are pursuing CRISPR genetic engineering applications.
Local teens win business venture prize for speech therapy app and life saving smart exit sign.
New research finds most executives see risks increasing in both number and complexity – but those same executives say their organizations’ risk management efforts may not be staying abreast of those risks.
A write up of a recent Darden alumni event in D.C., featuring high-profile alumni Marc Short and Peter Prowitt discussing public policy jobs
Darden’s Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will partner with CEIBS to present the CEIBS Private Wealth Management Forum.
Michigan State University and Indian media company Ramoji Film City are partnering to help farmers better produce food for India. The project involves the university’s communication and agriculture experts and the Ramoji Media Group, a multi-media giant that reaches some 620 million Indians with television stations, films, newspapers and online media.
Tom Latour, Chairman and Director of Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC, created the LaTour Family Endowment Fund for Student Travel in The School of Hospitality Business.
Research finds that the number of backers a new product attracts during crowdfunding predicts the financial success of the product when it reaches the marketplace – but the amount of money raised during crowdfunding does not.
Professor Morela Hernandez and Lisa Stewart discuss the entrepreneurs rapidly growing in the Cuban tourism market — and use the situation as an example of how the government could promote economic growth while maintaining its emphasis on social equality
The W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory (i.Lab) at the University of Virginia Darden School for Business will exhibit at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2017, showcasing innovative UVA-affiliated startups supported by the i.Lab's Incubator program.
Success for employees in the digital workplace of the future will require a suite of new skillsets and an agile, adaptable outlook.
UVA Darden Professor Mike Lenox’s recent Three Things video. In it, he explains three classic patterns of disruptive innovation, as new technologies and companies redefine markets.
The trucking industry loses billions of dollars each year sitting idle in traffic. Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, says a team of researchers. The team has identified a solution using big data technology.
Lynn Perry Wooten, senior associate dean for academic and student excellence at the University of Michigan, has been named David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
How do supply chain costs impact industry, including Fortune 500 companies? "The answer to that question changed my entire career,” said Jimmy Anklesaria, one of the world’s most sought-after speakers on cost management.
Professor Jeanne Liedtka and Randy Salzman discuss lessons learned from business growth leaders who thrived despite the Great Recession. The authors pose the question: Can we apply these lessons to contemporary economic and political uncertainty?
Hello® Products founder Craig Dubitsky joins Babson College as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.
Social information gathered from friends and experts, depending on the complexity of the product, can decrease uncertainty in crowdfunding campaigns, according to research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
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