Debi Kleiman, executive director at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College, has authored First Pitch: Winning Money, Mentors, and More for Your Startup.
The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) has honored Babson College Entrepreneurship Professor Emerita Patricia Greene with the Max S. Wortman, Jr. Award for Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship.
More than 100 public and private universities and colleges – including Babson College – have filed an amicus brief to defend the long-standing immigration program known as Optional Practical Training (OPT) that benefits international students studying in the U.S.
Babson College is among the 2019 winners of the New England Food Vision Prize from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, which seeks to encourage college and university campuses in the region to improve the health, sustainability, and vitality of the region’s food system. Babson College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and Worcester State University (WSU), in partnership with Mountain Dairy, will use the $250,000 prize funds to support the local dairy farm’s efforts to diversify and expand its operation into cheese production. In return, the partnering institutions will commit to purchase volumes to ensure a stable market for delivery of the new product.
More than half of global family CEOs do not have a formal retirement plan and 70% of global family businesses do not have a formal succession plan, according to the 2019 STEP Global Family Business Survey, The impact of changing demographics on family business succession planning and governance. However, the report finds that Millennial CEOs are ready to take over.
For the third consecutive year Babson College has been named an education sponsor for AI World Conference and Expo 2019. The event will run October 23-25, 2019, at Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.
Three finalists have been chosen to compete for upward of $100,000 at Babson College’s biggest pitch competition yet, the ePitch: Second Century Challenge.
Nineteen high-potential women entrepreneurs, representing eighteen ventures, have been selected to participate in Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® Boston—a unique, five-month accelerator designed for women entrepreneurs, by women entrepreneurs, in order to empower them to build scalable businesses.
Babson College’s biggest pitch competition to date – the Babson ePitch: Second Century Challenge - is just over a month away, and 12 semifinalists, who have just been named, are vying for a spot on stage.
Upward of $100,000 will be awarded to entrepreneurs who have pitched, and won over, a panel of well-known judges, including Jamie Siminoff ’99, founder of Ring.
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Babson Executive Education is launching a new open enrollment program as part of its capability in helping companies drive growth and innovation. The two-day overview -- Building A Capability For Breakthrough Innovation -- at Babson in October shows innovation leaders, innovation managers and their teams and organizational leaders how to build a capability for breakthrough innovation at a company.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has announced that tech executive Priya Iyer is its new Entrepreneur in Residence and will work with Babson’s emerging entrepreneurs.
Meet 13 Babson College student startup teams at the Summer Venture Showcase July 25, 2019, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Summer Venture Program is a 10-week intensive experience that builds entrepreneurial skills and accelerates the development of student ventures. Teams, ranging from consumer products to services and tech, were chosen from among the most promising graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurs to take their businesses through the program.
Babson College, the top-ranked academic institution worldwide for the study of Entrepreneurship, is pleased to announce that it has received EQUIS reaccreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
Babson College, in a special partnership with The BASE, is one of 100 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 each through Cummings Foundation's "$100K for 100" program. Funding from the Cummings $100K for 100 grant will allow Babson to bring its ACTIVATE entrepreneurial curriculum for youth to The BASE in Roxbury, empowering more than 300 urban student-athletes, as well as at least 40 of their educators and coaches. The partnership was chosen from a total of 574 applicants during a competitive review process.
A Babson College undergraduate student team this spring helped solve a company’s real operating constraint as part of their capstone class, Scaling Lean Ventures.
Impact Day, a global convening of investors, accelerators, policy-makers, scholars, women entrepreneurs, and other key stakeholders who are dedicated to changing the landscape of financing women entrepreneurs, will take place June 5, 2019, at Babson College’s Wellesley campus, hosted by Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL).
Each summer, the top Babson College student startup teams spend ten weeks advancing their businesses in the Blank Center for Entrepreneurship’s Summer Venture Program (SVP). This year’s cohort has started its journey.
This year’s Babson College student speaker selection committees, made up of Babson administrators, faculty, and students, have chosen Swapnika Yarlagadda ’19 and Rodrigo Riviello MBA ’19 as the 2019 Commencement student speakers.
Building a business while juggling academics and life is no easy task – but there are Babson College entrepreneurs who are doing it. For them, there is the Butler Launch Pad’s Fast Track Cohort. The 2018-2019 cohort, a group of undergraduate and graduate student and alumni entrepreneurs, met weekly through the academic year to get feedback, support each other, hold each other accountable, and work on their business playbooks.
Babson College Adjunct Professor and corporate sustainability professional Asheen Phansey MBA’08 plans to bridge numerous initiatives into a systematic strategy and vision in his new role as Babson’s Director of Sustainability.
Babson College Senior Julia Dean has been awarded a Fulbright Study/Research Grant from the world’s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program. As a Fulbright student, Dean will travel to South Korea and create an entrepreneurship boot camp curriculum to empower North Korean defectors to better their lives through education and an entrepreneurial mindset.
The Weissman Foundry Fashion Show - "Untitled" - will showcase student entrepreneurs from Babson College, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Wellesley College (BOW) on Saturday, April 20th, 2019, 6 p.m., on Babson’s Wellesley campus.
Nine Babson startups will pitch in front of judges for their share of over $300,000 in cash and prizes on Thursday, April 11, 5 p.m., during the B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge Finale at Babson’s Wellesley campus, hosted by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson.
Babson College has appointed Professor Ken Matsuno to be the College’s Dean of Faculty, a role in which he will lead the full- and part-time faculty and serve on the President’s Cabinet, Academic Council, and the Operating and Finance Committee. His appointment is effective on June 1, 2019.
Babson College’s B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge Semifinalist Round takes place at the Venture Expo on April 3, 2019 at Babson’s Wellesley Campus in Olin Hall beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Babson College's Boston Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® -- a venture accelerator specifically for women entrepreneurs -- will host its finale event for the 2018-2019 cohort on March 13, 2019, 6 pm, Babson Boston campus, 100 High Street, Boston.
The 13th Annual Babson Sustainability Forum will take place on Babson College’s Wellesley campus, March 29, 2019, 8 am to 6 pm. The Babson Sustainability and Energy Club’s annual forum, with the theme Embracing The Future’s Goals, will host talks and elite panel discussions covering the broad umbrella of sustainability, featuring industries from agriculture and food, fashion, financing, and clean tech and energy.
Babson College’s Miami Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab®—a venture accelerator specifically for women entrepreneurs—will host its finale event for the 2018-2019 cohort on March 12, 2019.
The Babson College 2019 Black Affinity Network Conference, hosted by the world’s top-ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship, focuses this year on the unique contributions and achievements of black professionals across music, film, radio, television and more, featuring some of the media and entertainment industry’s pioneering professionals.
Ninety-nine percent of Babson College’s most recent undergraduate alumni are employed or continuing their education, according to statistics from the Class of 2018 six months after graduation*. Salaries are on the rise, too. The average starting salary for Babson’s Class of 2018 was $57,580.
Katrina Fludd ’08, MS’10 the new president of the Babson College Black Affinity Network (BAN), and she is bringing her entrepreneurial approach to diversity and inclusion to lead the network into Babson’s second century and beyond.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has announced that consultant, author, and venture capitalist turned angel investor and startup advisor Robert Stringer will be the new Director for its award-winning, immersive Summer Venture Program for student entrepreneurs from Babson and nearby Wellesley and Olin Colleges.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has announced that Derek Schoettle MBA’03, CEO of ZoomInfo, and John Landry 69‘ MP’08, serial tech entrepreneur and investor, are new Entrepreneurs-in-Residence that will work with Babson’s emerging entrepreneurs on their ventures.
Babson College, the No. 1 ranked college and global leader in entrepreneurship, is pleased to announce that FedEx Corp. has agreed to contribute an additional $500,000 to support the school’s Miami Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® to assist and encourage emerging women CEOs looking to create economic and social impact.
Babson College, the #1 college and world leader in entrepreneurship, will celebrate its tradition of innovation by inducting Founder & CEO, SPANX, Inc. Sara Blakely, Founder Jesse Itzler and the late former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc., former Executive Chairman, DreamWorks, and former Trustee, Roger Enrico ’65, H’86 into Babson’s Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs during ceremonies on Babson’s Wellesley campus, Thursday, November 15, 2018.
Babson College has launched the Babson Academy, created to advance global entrepreneurial learning at universities around the world, provide faculty, administrators, and students of other educational institutions access to Babson’s thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and hoping to inspire change in the way universities and colleges think about, teach, and learn entrepreneurship.
Babson College, the #1 college and global leader for entrepreneurship, will offer a new program, Women Leaders Activating Change: Creating Value for You and Your Organization, at Babson Miami February 25-28 with an optional online session.
Babson College, the top ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship, has named renowned innovation and entrepreneurship specialist Mark P. Rice Provost and Professor of Entrepreneurship.
Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® Miami introduces eighteen founders - representing a diverse set of industries from FinTech to food and beverage - chosen to participate in the five month long accelerator, supported by Babson College, the #1 ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship.