More than 85 new venture ideas were each pitched in three minutes or less by Babson alumni and students at Babson's 9th Annual Rocket Pitch Event on the Babson College campus.
Babson College"”the top-ranked school for Entrepreneurship"”has introduced a new field of concentration in the Undergraduate curriculum. The "Technology Entrepreneurship and Design" concentration offers students the unique opportunity to specialize in one of three emerging technology areas -- Technology Entrepreneurship, Product Design, and Environmental Sustainability.
Babson College will deliver its flagship Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) in Russia November 2-6, 2008. Babson and St. Petersburg State University with support from Banco Santander are collaborating to offer the intensive, four-day SEE program customized for entrepreneurship educators in Russia.
Laura Sabattini, Research Director,Catalyst Inc., and Jane Magpiong, recently named Senior Managing Director, Head of Wealth Management, TIAA-CREF, will be among the featured speakers at the 2008 Center for Women's Leadership Conference, October 31, 2008, at Babson College.
Babson College, the top ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship, will establish its Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at an Oct. 17th dinner honoring Robert J. Davis, managing general partner, Highland Capital Partners; Jonathan Carson, chairman and CEO, cMarket Network; and Deborah DiSanzo, CEO, Phillips Healthcare Informatics.
Babson College has received a $10.8 million gift from the Lewis Charitable Foundation for the establishment of an institute to support teaching, research, and outreach in social entrepreneurship.
Canditto has won the first place $30,000 prize in the Babson Innovation Competition. The competition was part of the day-long Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, organized by MBA students at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
Babson College has established the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) with EM Lyon Business School (France) and Zhejiang University - School of Management (China). Babson will offer a new Master of Science in Management degree with a concentration in global entrepreneurship.
Babson College finance professor Michael Goldstein has been named to the Economic Advisory Board of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States.
Babson College, the world leader in entrepreneurial education, will host the 7th annual Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship & Innovation (BFEI), Thursday, October 2, 2008.
Babson Executive Education (BEE)"”a top-ranked provider of executive education programs"”will run its highly successful, Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing program from Sept. 13 to 19, 2008, at the Babson Executive Conference Center, Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
Babson College"”the #1 ranked business school for Entrepreneurship"”will graduate its first class of Portland, Oregon Fast Track MBAs on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.
For the 12th consecutive time, U.S.News & World Report magazine has named Babson the #1 undergraduate program in the U.S. for Entrepreneurship.
Babson College Professor Candida Brush has been inducted into the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellows group, an organization committed to advancing the cause of entrepreneurship research throughout the world.
Babson College will cosponsor the 2008 Diana International Research Symposium on gender and entrepreneurship that will take place on November 4, 2008 in Belfast.
Babson College freshmen earned more than $30,000 for charitable organizations this year while learning how to plan, launch, and manage a business.
Entrepreneurship educators joined real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2008 Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (BabsonSEE) in Guayaquil at Babson's partner institution, Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Babson College has established the Weissman Scholarship Program, a full-tuition award that also provides seed money to start a venture or pursue a global service project, support for research, and stipends for travel.
Babson College's Library has received the 2008 Center of Excellence Award for its commitment to service excellence demonstrated through the quality of information programs, resources, and services developed for The Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance over the past five years.
Entrepreneurship educators from around the world joined real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2008 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE 24) at Babson College.
Babson College, the first business school in the U.S. to join the Posse Program, saw all eleven of its first undergraduate Posse students graduate this spring. The Posse Foundation identifies, recruits, and trains incredible youth leaders from urban public high schools, and sends these groups as "posses" to top colleges and universities in this country.
A Babson College student team, working for a not-for-profit, adult education organization, has won the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation entrepreneurship award.
The 28th Annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), co-sponsored by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is taking place through June 7th, 2008. The conference is delighted to welcome 300 researchers, presenting 219 papers, from 23 countries.
Babson College MBA and undergraduate students will teach entrepreneurship in South Africa this summer.
Shahid Ansari has been named Dean of Faculty at Babson College. Ansari is an internationally known scholar in the area of behavioral and cultural aspects of management accounting, strategy, control, and change management.
Deborah Bial, President and Founder of The Posse Foundation, Myles Brand, President, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and Thomas T. Stallkamp, Chairman, Babson Board of Trustees, and Industrial Partner, Ripplewood Holdings LLC, will be speakers at the 2008 Babson College Commencement ceremonies on May 17, 2008.
Women of color are starting businesses at rates three to five times faster than all other businesses. However, once in business, their growth lags behind all other firms, according to the results of a multi-year study conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research in partnership with Babson College exploring the impact of race and gender on the growth of businesses owned by women who are African-American, Asian, Latina and other ethnicities.
Women's entrepreneurship matters, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2007 Report on Women and Entrepreneurship released today by The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College.
Babson Professor Dennis F.S. Mathaisel's Sustaining the Military Enterprise: An Architecture for a Lean Transformation (Auerbach Publications) describes a Lean Enterprise Architecture (LEA) strategy to transform maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) enterprises in the defense industry.
On Tuesday April 22nd, Babson will officially become first college in the greater Boston area to utilize wind power through an on-campus installation, joining the growing number of US colleges and universities that have chosen to develop their commitment to sustainable business practices through the use of renewable energy technologies.
Businesses Incentive Targeting and Before The Stores, LLC have won Babson College's 2008 Business Plan Competitions. Babson founded the very first college business plan competition in 1984. Today awards are almost $100,000 in cash prizes and services in kind.
Babson College, the #1 business school for entrepreneurship, will honor the entrepreneurial contributions of three international giants -- Ernesto Bertarelli, Lee Man Tat, and Sunil Bharti Mittal from the biotechnology, consumer products, and telecom industries -- when it enrolls them into Babson's Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs (ADE) on Wed., April 9, 2008.
U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 15th year in a row.
The student-run Babson College Investment Management Association will host "Investing in a Diverse Marketplace" Conference on Friday, March 28, 2008, in Olin Hall, Babson College, 11:30-6:00. Keynote speakers are: Stephen D. Cutler: M '61, President of Essex Investments; Jurrien Timmer: '85, Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments; Erik Sirri: Director of Trading and Market Regulation, SEC.
The Energy and Environmental Club at Babson College will host the second annual Entrepreneurial Energy Expo (E3) taking place at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business on March 27, 2008.
Babson College Business Hatcheries have accepted 9 student businesses for the spring 2008 term.
A Babson College team has won the New England Investment Research Challenge sponsored by the Boston Security Analysts Society (BSAS). This is the second consecutive year that the Babson College team of investment analysts took the top honors in the BSAS competition.
Babson College announces the appointment of Elizabeth Thornton, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, as Babson's first Chief Diversity Officer.
Babson College plans to install a wind turbine on the school's campus as a demonstration project, becoming the first college in the greater Boston area to utilize wind power through an on-campus installation.
Babson first-year undergraduate students have established 16 new businesses that they will operate through the end of the school year as part of the required course, Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship. All profits will be donated to charity.
Babson College has achieved reaffirmation of accreditation of its bachelor's/master's degree programs in business administration by recent action of the Board of Directors of AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Banco Santander, the world's 7th largest bank by profit, and Babson College, one of the world's leading colleges for the study of entrepreneurship, have partnered to support academic programs in South America in the areas of entrepreneurship and global management.
Encouraging global entrepreneurship is vital to improving economic growth worldwide according to the ninth annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2007 Global Report. Directed by Babson College and London Business, and released today, the GEM 2007 Report strongly recommends that entrepreneurs organize to achieve political influence to liberalize trade and investment policies on an international level.
Babson's Dr. I. Elaine Allen has been appointed Chair of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Research Committee by the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA).
Thirty-nine Babson College MBA students and sixteen Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Industrial Design students in eight joint teams have come up with eight new product concepts from their semester-long course, Product Design and Development.
Babson College has named Walter Esquivel Executive Director of the William F. Glavin Center for Global Management, the organization that leads Babson's international initiatives and contributions to the advancement of global management education.
Babson College has named Janelle Shubert Director of the Center for Women's Leadership. The Center is the first comprehensive center dedicated to women in business, entrepreneurship and not-for-profit management at a leading business school.
Babson College and France's EM Lyon have signed a wide-ranging agreement to cooperate on a full range of student oriented programs, curriculum development, entrepreneurial hatcheries, executive education programs, as well as faculty exchanges, and research projects.
In Beyond Terror, Goldberg argues that after human rights violations have occurred, the realm of representation is the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal, emotional, and cultural terms. Moving beyond fictional accounts from past wars, she focuses on emerging narratives about recent abuses.
'Third Space' offers fresh insights on the struggle between indigenous resistance and American colonialism"”within its own borders.
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