Babson College Economics Professor Dr. Kent Jones has authored Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century − An Institutional Approach.
Babson College is one of the 353 most environmentally responsible colleges in the world, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company known for its test prep and tutoring services, books, and college rankings has featured Babson in the 2015 edition of its free book, The Princeton Review Guide to 353 Green Colleges.
Babson College Professor of History and Foodways Frederick Douglass Opie has authored the new book, Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures.
The Babson College B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®) Challenge kicks off on April 8th, 2015, recognizing major milestones that Babson businesses have achieved by taking action.
The Lewis Institute at Babson College will award five global social entrepreneurs with the 2015 Social Innovator Awards at an honorary on-campus event on April 8, 2015. The two teams from Partners in Health and Channels of Hope are being acknowledged and celebrated for their tireless efforts in creating extraordinary social ripples that change lives, transform communities, and, in many cases, impact an entire country.
Babson College students have launched 33 new businesses as part of the Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course, a 7-credit immersion into the world of business. All first-year Babson students are given the assignment to develop and run a business during the spring semester.
Babson College and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh have announced exciting new plans for Lemonade Day Boston 2015, now in its 5th consecutive year supporting children in the Greater Boston area. The growing initiative, championed by Babson to help empower youth through entrepreneurship, college-readiness, financial literacy, and life-skills programming, will see upwards of 4,000 local participants during a mix of new and traditional Lemonade Day Boston activities.
Babson’s Energy and Environmental Club (BEEC) will convene a host of leading environmental enthusiasts for its 9th annual Energy and Environmental Conference on April 9, 2015.
Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and the Babson Latin American Club have announced the list of confirmed speakers for the 7th annual Babson Latin American Entrepreneurship Forum on April 10, 2015.
Donna Sosnowski has been named Director of Babson College’s Undergraduate Center for Career Development, bringing a unique ensemble of talents and expertise that encompass Career Services, Human Resources, Coaching and Higher Education.
Babson and its signature community resource, Lemonade Day Boston, are hosting free trainings for Boston Public School teachers, each worth 2.5 Professional Development Points (PDPs). This opportunity is a brand new addition to Lemonade Day Boston entrepreneurship and life skills programing, one that no other Lemonade Day convener in the U.S. has yet to provide.
Babson will bring together leading professionals from Washington to Wall Street to share their insights, provide perspective, and identify the areas of greatest opportunity and risk during the 8th Annual Babson Investment Management Conference on Friday, March 27, 2015.
Dr. Phillip KnutelDr. Phillip Knutel, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Bentley University, has been named Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Babson College.
The Boston Business Journal named Babson College a finalist in its 5th annual Healthiest Employers program alongside an impressive group of Boston-area organizations, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan.
Babson Professor Heidi M. Neck and Alumnus Anton Yakushin ’08 have launched an educational tech company called VentureBlocks, created to serve as a new and innovative resource for higher entrepreneurial education. The company’s first educational “block”, ‘The Nanu Challenge’, was officially released in January 2015.
Babson College Professor of Management Practice for Babson’s Executive Education, and Adjunct Lecturer of Entrepreneurship Elizabeth R. Thornton has authored The Objective Leader: How to Leverage the Power of Seeing Things as They Are , a framework for understanding how objectivity, the most critical management skill, can help leaders make smarter decisions and get better results.
This spring, Babson College will deliver a version of its flagship Entrepreneur’s Boot Camp program in Miami, Florida. The Entrepreneur’s Boot Camp: Short Course (Miami) will run from March 19-21, 2015. This open enrollment program prepares high-potential entrepreneurs to grow and accelerate new ventures.
Babson College has received the Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship (GCEC) Award, designed to showcase and celebrate the very best of university entrepreneurship, for Outstanding Contributions to Venture Acceleration.
Babson College Professor of Film Julie Levinson has edited the new book Alexander Payne: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series), published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Babson College rhetoric instructor Michael Gerhard Martin has authored Easiest If I Had A Gun, a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of short stories published by Braddock Avenue Books.
The entirely student-run Babson Entrepreneurship Forum will be held at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business on Friday, November 14. Centered on the theme of “Owning the Future,” more than 25 prominent speakers will be featured in panels, keynotes, and breakouts throughout the day.
Nearly 100 entrepreneurs from the Boston area will introduce their ventures to a crowd of 500 fellow entrepreneurs, investors, partners, and members of the community at Babson’s signature Rocket Pitch event on Thursday, November 6th.
Babson College’s Graduate School has opened Design Zone 125, new classroom space designed to enable collaboration, creative thinking, and problem-solving.
Babson Professor Marjorie N. Feld’s new book, Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle Over Apartheid, details American Jewish involvement in the battle against racial injustice in South Africa, placing it in within the context of the long historical encounter between American Jews and apartheid.
Babson College, the No. 1 college for entrepreneurship education, is now offering undergraduate students the opportunity to live and learn in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area.
First-year students from the Babson College class of 2017 raised more than $17,000 in profits for local social service agencies through the college’s award-winning Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course
Babson Executive Education has won Silver in the 2014 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards for the Saltire Fellowship Program, a Babson custom-designed program to help transform the Scottish economy through entrepreneurial leadership. Babson was honored for its submission to the Talent Development category.
Babson College’s required first-year course, Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME), has received the Excellence in Curriculum Innovation in Entrepreneurship Award.
Select Babson College ventures are receiving support this summer in Undergraduate and MBA Hatcheries on campus. As part of the John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator Program, the undergraduate and graduate Hatcheries offer a vibrant atmosphere for sharing ideas and information among student teams, faculty, executives-in-residence and visiting entrepreneurs.
BeautyBar by B.Lo, a business that creates a unique experience offering makeovers to women, has been named 2014 Undergraduate Student Business of the Year by the Babson College Student Government Association (SGA). Brittany Lo, a 2014 Babson graduate, received the award on behalf of her company as Founder and CEO of BeautyBar by B.Lo.
Babson College selected 16 teams to participate in this year’s 2014 Summer Venture Program. Sponsored by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson, the 10-week intensive experience is designed to support the most promising graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurs from Babson.
Six Babson startups were among the 128 global finalists chosen to advance to the MassChallenge 2014 Accelerator Program. This year’s class was selected from more than 1,600 applicants, making it the most competitive applicant pool in the program's five year history. In June, finalists will participate in the four-month accelerator, held for the first time at MassChallenge’s new headquarters at the Boston Innovation & Design Building.
The Ivey Business School of Western University is hosting the 34th annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) from June 4-7, 2014, in London, Ontario.
Alfred (Fred) J. Nanni Jr., Professor of Accounting, has been named Provost of Babson College. Nanni is the Jefferson Vander Wolk Professor of Management, Accounting, and Operational Performance.
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) P. Ward, the Associate Dean for Academic Programs at American University’s Kogod School of Business, has been named Associate Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs at Babson College.
Tory Burch, CEO and designer of Tory Burch, an American lifestyle brand; Bobby Sager, entrepreneur, philanthropist, photographer and founder, Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow; and Leonard Schlesinger, Babson College President Emeritus, will be honored during the 2014 Commencement ceremonies on May 17th at Babson College.
HigherMe ─ a Babson tech startup that makes it easier for retail employers to hire qualified workers ─ took home the $15,000 first prize in Startup Rounds business contest held recently through the Babson Entrepreneurship Club (BEC).
Babson’s Tom Davenport has been recognized as one of the "21 Thought-Leader Professors in Data Science" by the website Master's in Data Science. He is the President’s Distinguished Information Technology & Management professor at Babson College.
Three startups ─ Vedavoo, Lilypad Scales, and HigherMe ─ are the 2014 winners of the Babson College B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®) Challenge. The entrepreneur winners in three categories ─ alumni, undergraduate student, and graduate student ─ competed to win a grand prize of $20,000 each in cash and “services in kind” donations from corporate sponsors.
Nine businesses will compete as finalists in Babson College’s B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®) Challenge on April 10, 2014 during Founder’s Day activities on the Wellesley, MA campus.
The 6th annual Babson Latin American Entrepreneurship Forum, hosted by F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and the Babson Latin American Club, will take place Friday, April 4th, 2014.
Twelve Babson College students will participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2014 Annual Meeting at Arizona State University in Tempe, March 21-23.
Babson College and Santander International Entrepreneurship Center (CISE) recently presented the second offering of the CISE-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators. The program, supported for Banco Santander, through its Santander Universities Global Division, was taught to a group of 40 academics and entrepreneurs from multiple institutions at the University of Cantabria in Spain.
Babson College will host the 2nd International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance on March 20-21, 2014, where researchers, practitioners, and academics from around the world will present the latest research and case studies in their academic fields.
Babson’s Energy and Environmental Club (BEEC) will hold the Babson Energy & Environmental Conference: Fifteen Shades of Green, on Thursday, March 27, 2014 from 9 am to 7 pm at the Wellesley, MA campus.