Babson College will launch a new undergraduate concentration in Retail Supply Chain Management in Spring 2007. Babson's Michael Levy, the Charles Clarke Reynolds Professor of Retail Marketing, developed the concentration and is its faculty director.
Babson College has partnered with Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Escola de Administração de Empresas, São Paulo (EAESP), Brazil, the first Latin American institution to obtain recognition by AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).
New research finds that considerably more effort will be needed to increase women's business ownership in the UK, with a more sustained approach to policy required from government.
The first GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Forum for entrepreneurship will be held at the Café Royal in London on January 10-11, 2007. More than 100 international speakers and panelists will debate the central theme of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development.
Seventeen student businesses have entered the Babson College MBA Entrepreneurship Intensity Track program. EIT offers students the opportunity to earn an MBA degree and launch a business at the same time.
Babson College freshmen have earned over $31,000 for charitable organizations while learning the fundamentals of business.
The Center for Women's Business Research and its academic partner Babson College have launched a multi-year national study on women of color and their business enterprises.
This study, which is being conducted for the fifth time and is a culmination of five years of data, identifies the top 100 woman-led businesses in Massachusetts and includes data from 191 woman-led firms.
Babson College continues its work with the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies in the U.K. to deliver the U.S. portion of the New Entrepreneur Scholarships, a program designed to help budding entrepreneurs from disadvantaged areas start their own businesses.
More than 30 speakers will participate in Babson College's fifth annual Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Friday, October 13, 2006, 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m., entitled Shaping Competitive Advantage.
Ten student businesses, almost all Web-driven enterprises, have entered the Babson College Business Hatcheries.
New book by Babson professors shows companies how to retain and engage employees with no-cost, low-cost ideas.
America Economia magazine has ranked Babson College's MBA program #20 among U.S. business schools and #30 in the world.
Carly Fiorina, Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard, will be among the dozens of speakers at the Babson College 2006 Women's Leadership Conference on Friday, September 15th.
Babson expert Jeff Melnick teaches business students about the culture of 9/11 and the fact that we are a transformed society because of the event.
Women entrepreneurs who take advantage of every financing opportunity and who finance creatively are more likely to reach the rapid growth stage in their businesses. This is the first research that examines the linkage between types of finance activities used by women entrepreneurs during various stages in the business cycle.
Black Enterprise magazine has named Babson College one of the Top 50 Colleges for African Americans. Babson is ranked #23.
For the tenth consecutive time, U.S. News & World Report magazine has named Babson College the #1 undergraduate program in the U.S. for Entrepreneurship.
U.S. entrepreneurs are in a league of their own when it comes to building innovative businesses that keep the economy dynamic and productive, according to the seventh annual U.S. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), directed by Babson College and London Business School.
Babson College has received the Innovation Award from the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE) for its Online Career Workshop Series.
The STEP Project For Family Enterprising (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) has launched the STEP Project in Latin America. Twelve academic researcher representatives from nine countries and institutions will gather at Babson Center for Executive Education from July 30 to August 1, 2006 for the launch.
Former HP leader Carly Fiorina and Beacon Street Girls founder/CEO Addie Swartz will be among the speakers at the Babson College Women's Leadership Conference on September 15, 2006.
Countries where aging populations are increasing faster than younger people may also see a decline in entrepreneurial business activity according to new research from Babson College Professor Maria Minniti, Research Director of The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which annually measures entrepreneurial activity worldwide, and Moren Levesque, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Babson College and Tec De Monterrey in Mexico have developed a unique partnership, the New Business Generation Initiative, designed to nurture successful business ventures in Latin America.
Babson College has named Kristin Gustaff director of business development and program management for the new Portland Fast Track MBA that will kick off September 14-18 at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Portland. Oregon. Program details are available at http://www3.babson.edu/MBA/programs/fasttrack/portland.cfm.
The largest, annual survey of social entrepreneurial activity in the United Kingdom shows that young people are more likely to be social entrepreneurs than any other age grouping.
Babson College has established the Babson Women's Business Blog as a forum for issues and findings related to business in general and women in particular. The blog is located at http://www3.babson.edu/cwl/blog/.
Johns Hopkins University Associate Athletics Director Josh MacArthur will take over as Babson College AD on August 7.
Black Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to try to start a business, according to a study by Dr. Philipp Koellinger of the German Institute for Economic Research and Babson College and Economics and Entrepreneurship Professor Maria Minniti.
The sixty-three participants in the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators are exploring the entrepreneurial process and the "art and craft" of teaching and learning entrepreneurship.
Babson Executive Education has been ranked in the Top 10 executive education providers by the Financial Times. Babson was ranked 9 in the world, overall. This overall ranking combines ratings for both Global Custom and Open Enrollment Executive Education programs.
Babson College and the University of Ulster (UU) have formed a partnership to support entrepreneurship education in Northern Ireland.
Babson College, USA, and Pearl Global Ltd., India, have signed a strategic collaboration on a full range of activities to promote world class research and education of entrepreneurship in India.
Babson College has been ranked among the top 30 undergraduate business programs in BusinessWeek's first ever rankings of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools.
Hundreds of academics, businesspersons, and government officials attended the initial BabsonCollege/Nankai University entrepreneurship programs in China.
Babson Executive Education"”a top-ranked provider of executive education programs"”will run its popular open enrollment program, Entrepreneurial Strategies for Innovation and Growth (ESIG), May 22-24 at the Babson Executive Conference Center, Babson College.
Leading entrepreneurs Stephen Spinelli, Jr. of Babson College and Anthony Iaquinto describe how preparing for adversity is the smartest way to go into business in NEVER BET THE FARM: How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisions"”and How You Can, Too.
U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 13th year in a row.
Six student businesses (including those producing a nano-tech drug discovery aid and a "˜meditation' seat) - selected from a field of more than 200 business plans - will participate in the final round of the 2006 Babson College Business Plan Competitions as part of Babson's Founder's Day celebration on April 4th.
Babson College and Willamette University have agreed to collaborate in delivering high-quality, postgraduate executive education programs in Oregon. The first programs, focusing on competitor profiling, leadership, and succession planning, will be offered at Willamette University facilities in downtown Portland beginning this year.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has accepted 10 student businesses into the Babson College Business Hatcheries for the spring 2006 term.
Babson College Professor Jeffry Timmons, better known as "The Johnny Appleseed of Entrepreneurship Education," will plant his passion for start-up businesses March 13-14, 2006 at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, ND. Tribal government officials, Native American business owners, and educators from several state universities have been invited.
Babson first-year undergraduate students have established fourteen new businesses. First-year students are required to take the full-year FME (Foundation Management Experience) course that introduces them to inventing, developing, launching, managing, and liquidating a business. Profits are donated to charity.
A new book by a leading professor of corporate entrepreneurship"”featuring in-depth profiles and success stories from some of today's top companies"”reveals how to foster innovation at all levels of the corporation and how to employ entrepreneurial leadership qualities to turn ideas into economic value.
Babson College has named women's entrepreneurship researcher Candida Brush professor and chair of Babson's Entrepreneurship Division.
Babson Executive Education's new program, Managing in the Knowledge Age, is designed to help managers and professionals leverage their most critical resource - knowledge - in work, in business practices, and in products and services.
Babson College has named entrepreneurship scholar Patricia G. Greene Provost. Greene currently serves as Dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson, a position she has held since July 2003.
The United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) has named Babson College's Foundation Management Experience (FME) undergraduate course the number one "Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course" in the country.
Babson College has launched a three-week summer program --Babson Business Edge -- for students currently earning non-business degrees at other colleges.
Babson College, USA and Nankai University Business School, China, have signed an agreement to launch the first China-US Symposium for Entrepreneurship Research and Education (CUSyERE) at Nankai University in April 2006.
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