Babson College and Zhejiang University Business School in China have established a partnership to support student-oriented programs, curriculum development, executive education programs, faculty exchanges, and research projects.
A major research study released today by Babson College and The Commonwealth Institute finds that woman-led businesses in Massachusetts are strong engines of economic growth, consistently outperforming national and state growth rates for each of the six years that the study was conducted.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has accepted seven student businesses into the Babson College Business Hatchery for the fall 2007 term. The Babson Hatchery provide rent-free space and resources to current students in order to support their efforts to launch successful businesses.
A Babson College Portland Fast Track MBA team has ranked #16 in the 2007 Innovation Challenge® business competition. The Innovation Challenge is the largest competition of its kind in the world, consistently uniting hundreds of teams from the top MBA programs worldwide with some of the biggest global brands in a groundbreaking experience designed to solve real-world business challenges.
Babson College offers the Portland Fast Track MBA program at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Portland, Oregon. The unique blended-learning format of this program combines Web-based study with face-to-face sessions where students learn from world-class faculty, business leaders, and perhaps most important, each other.
The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College will hold the tenth annual Women's Leadership Conference on Friday, November 9, 2007. Speakers include Ilene Lang, President, Catalyst, Inc., and Dr. Sally Ride, first American woman in space, entrepreneur, author, and educator.
The Princeton Review has named Babson College MBA as one of its "Best 290 Business Schools," according to the 2008 edition of the guide book (Random House / Princeton Review, $22.95, October 9). Babson is also among the Top 10 MBA programs for Greatest Opportunity for Women.
Babson College has been named the #1 undergraduate program and #2 MBA program for entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.
The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College has appointed Allan R. Cohen Interim Dean. Cohen holds the Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor in Global Leadership, and has been a part of the Babson community for 25 years. He previously served for seven years as Babson's Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty.
Entrepreneurship educators and researchers from around the world will gather to study vital issues now facing entrepreneurs during the Third Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Research Conference in Washington, D.C., October 1-3, 2007.
The Wall Street Journal has ranked Babson College #21 among the 51 Regional MBA programs, a gain of 14 places from last year's #35 placement.
Dallas has been selected as one of the five cities that are sites for a national research study to identify obstacles to business growth faced by women business owners of color. The day-long research forum, held September 20th, will be conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College.
Babson College has been named the Hottest College for Business and is among the "25 Hottest Schools In America," according to the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek "How to Get into College" Guide.
Babson College is featured in the Princeton Review's 2008 edition of its annual book, "Best 366 Colleges."
Fortune Small Business (FSB) magazine has named Babson College one of the top schools for the study of entrepreneurship in its America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs feature.
For the 11th consecutive time, U.S.News & World Report magazine has named Babson the #1 undergraduate program in the U.S. for Entrepreneurship.
The Energy and Environmental Club at Babson College has purchased carbon offsets to reduce the environmental impact of operations at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. The club's purchase counterbalances 1% of the annual carbon emissions that result from the estimated consumption of 1.4 million kWh of electricity and 86 thousand therms of natural gas at the business school, offsetting over 13 tons of CO2 emissions.
Babson College Professor Maria Minniti has received the 2007 best publication award from the Society of Friends of the German Institute for Economic Research for her article, "Not For Lack Of Trying: American Entrepreneurship In Black And White," coauthored by Dr. Philipp Koellinger of the Institute.
A team of Babson College students have developed a micro-lending program, The Empowerment Bank, for the Veterans Business Owners Initiative (www.veteranbusiness.biz), an organization that assists veterans who face physical and emotional challenges run successful ventures. This project has earned the students Babson's Shelby Cullom Davis Prize for best Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) project.
Babson College MBA student business Mass Probiotics LLC -- a company launching the first non-dairy probiotic beverage -- is winner of the Babson College 2007 MBA business plan competition.
Babson College freshmen earned over $36,000 for charitable organizations while learning the fundamentals of business as part of the school's required full-year course entitled Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME).
San Francisco has been selected as one of the five cities that are sites for a national research study to identify obstacles to business growth faced by women business owners of color. The day-long research forum, held July 11th, will be conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College.
Babson College has been named an associate academic member of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS). It is the first U.S. college to receive this designation.
Babson College -- the world's top-ranked business school for Entrepreneurship -- is launching its STEP Project for Family Enterprising (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) in Asia and the Pacific Rim. More than twenty academic researcher representatives from eleven academic institutions in eight countries will gather at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from June 27-29 for the launch.
Babson College and the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering are hosting the Symposium for Engineering Entrepreneurship Educators (SyE3) through Friday, June 15 to educate engineering educators about teaching and applying entrepreneurship theory and practice as an integral part of engineering education.
Babson College has awarded top honors in its 2007 Undergraduate Business Plan Competition to Paragon Lake (http://www.paragonlake.com), which designs, manufactures, and distributes fine custom jewelry to retailers and consumers.
Nearly 70 leading entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship professors are gathering in teams at Babson College to create connections between theory and practice in teaching entrepreneurship.
The Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, Spain will host the 2007 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)"”the world's leading entrepreneurship research conference"”on June 6-9 with Babson College, the annual event's founder. The 2007 BCERC will welcome 350 entrepreneurship researchers presenting 217 papers from 28 countries.
Atlanta has been selected as one of the five cities that are sites for a national research study to identify obstacles to business growth faced by women business owners of color. The day-long research forum, held May 30th, will be conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College.
Accenture Chairman and CEO William D. Green and Stonyfield Farm Chairman, President, and CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg will be the commencement speakers during Babson College's commencement exercises on Saturday, May 19, 2007, at the Babson campus.
A Babson College team of MBA and undergraduate students won the CFA Institute inaugural Global Investment Challenge.
Babson College, the top-ranked business school for entrepreneurship, honored the entrepreneurial contributions of family businesses when it enrolled the Forbes and Molson families (Molson Coors Brewing Company) into Babson's Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs (ADE) during the College's Founder's Day celebration on Thursday, April 19, 2007.
Babson Executive Education (BEE) will deliver its Opting In: Women's Leadership at Points of Transition program April 30th, 2007 at BEE's award-winning Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley, Mass. The five-day open-enrollment course is designed to guide female business professionals to the next level of their chosen career paths.
Six student businesses in the areas of energy, recycling, health and sleep aids, and custom diamonds will participate in the final round of the 2007 Babson College Business Plan Competitions as part of Babson's Founder's Day celebration on April 19th.
U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 14th year in a row.
Babson Executive Education, ranked among the Top 10 providers worldwide of executive programs, presents its award-winning Leadership and Influence open enrollment program from March 26th to March 30th.
Babson College will host the 10th annual International Symposium on Business and Spirituality -- "Creating Business Values to Make the World Better" "“ on March 23rd, 2007.
Babson College has launched the Family Enterprising Blog as a forum for issues and findings related to transgenerational entrepreneurship. The blog is located at http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/family_enterprising/blog/.
Women Entrepreneurs worldwide"”in high and low income countries and with varied levels of education"”are more than likely employed in a second wage-earning job. Dual employment is a critical factor in the creation of women-run entrepreneurial ventures according to The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2006 Report on Women and Entrepreneurship released today by The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College.
Babson College first-year undergraduate students have established fifteen new businesses that they will operate through the end of the academic year as part of a required first-year course.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has accepted 12 student businesses into the Babson College Business Hatcheries for the spring 2007 term.
To support IT professionals in their return to time-honored roles---as innovative leaders growing business--Babson Executive Education (BEE) offers "Innovating with IT," an IT Consortium in two, three-day modules beginning Feb. 14-16, and led by top-ranked Babson faculty whose sole focus is best practices knowledge in IT and Operations Management.
Scientists and professionals from the bio-pharma industry will learn innovative business and strategy solutions in Babson Executive Education's (BEE) open enrollment program, BioPharma: Mastering the Business of Science, at the Babson Executive Conference Center, March 12-16, 2007.
NUTEK, the Swedish Business Development Agency, and FSF, the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research have announced t
On Wednesday, February 21, the Center for Women's Business Research and Babson College will launch Accelerating the Growth and Success of Businesses Owned by Women-of-Color, the first of four national research forums to bring together women of color entrepreneurs to identify barriers to business growth and to develop action plans to overcome them.
Babson Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship Michael Caslin will speak at the U.S. - China Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by the International Trade Administration (ITA) of the U. S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and China's National Development Reform Commission (NDRC).
Babson College entrepreneurship division chair and holder of the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship, has been named an editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, one of the top entrepreneurship and management journals worldwide.
Two Babson College MBA students have received an $11,500 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and the Lemelson Foundations to fully develop their "Stridekick" running shoe tracking device.
Babson College has received a $120,000 development grant from the GEBERT RUEF FOUNDATION, Switzerland, in preparation of its August 2007 launch of the Babson Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) in Europe.
The Babson College Athletics Department is pleased to announce the signing of a sponsorship agreement with Nike and its local representative Primetime Sports to be the primary supplier of apparel for the Beavers' 22 varsity athletics teams.
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