The Food Solutions Institute (Food Sol) has been established at Babson College to catalyze sustainability- and socially-oriented innovations in the food system.
The Babson College Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame’s newest members are • Mir Ibrahim Rahman ’00, co-founder and CEO of GEO TV Network, and • Stephen Spinelli Jr. M’92, president of Philadelphia University and co-founder of Jiffy Lube.
23 Babson College professors have created The New Entrepreneurial Leader -- presenting a radically new approach to management specifically designed to meet the drastically changed needs and circumstances of the post-crash world.
The first annual Babson College Fast Track MBA Rocket Pitch at the Babson San Francisco campus will take place Saturday, Oct 1, 1-5 pm, 135 Main Street, 3rd floor, San Francisco. Businesses will be vying for cash prizes of $5,000 for 1st place, $3,000 for 2nd, and $1,000 for 3rd - plus business services worth thousands.
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine have ranked Babson College MBA #1 for entrepreneurship. Babson Undergraduate is ranked #2 for Entrepreneurship.
Mayor Menino joins with Babson College to open Babson Boston, the Innovation District’s first major academic facility.
The Social Entrepreneurship by Design course at Babson College, jointly taught by professors from Babson and Olin College of Engineering, has received the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw Hill.
Babson College is hosting 30 days of activities, videos, and hands-on opportunities for the Babson community during the month of September to celebrate Babson’s commitment to the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME).
The Babson College campus becomes a marketplace of social innovation during “From Day One…Make a Difference” on August 30th. Creating economic and social value is serious business at Babson, and providing expertise, resources, ideas, and entertainment around making a difference is the focus of this day. Follow on Twitter #babsonFD1
High school entrepreneurs from around the world are refining their start-up skills at Babson College Summer Study Programs.
Babson College students earned more than $23,000 for charitable organizations while learning business fundamentals by establishing 18 start-ups during their first year of college.
Babson College is one of the best 376 colleges and among the best colleges in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. In addition, Babson is ranked #18 in the Review’s “Lots of Race/Class Interaction” category.
Babson College is conducting unique residential learning experiences in entrepreneurship for high school students in Ghana and Rwanda this summer.
GCEE is a vehicle to develop curriculum, initiate collaborative projects with international partners in the field of entrepreneurship education, and create a platform for the global exchange and integration of best practices in entrepreneurship education.
FUBU creator and ABC-TV’s Shark Tank host Daymond John has been named Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College for the Fall semester.
Babson College’s leading student entrepreneurs will present their business plans to venture capitalists, angel investors, friends, and family during the Babson Summer Venture Program Demo Day July 28th at 2:00 p.m. on campus. To register for the event, visit http://2011babsondemoday.eventbrite.com.
Babson College Finance Professor Michael Goldstein’s research on the impact of the ice road economy in the Arctic.
What is the influence of entrepreneurship education on intentions to become entrepreneurs and becoming full-time entrepreneurs? According to Babson College researchers: There is overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced the intention to become an entrepreneur and becoming an actual entrepreneur both at the time of graduation and long afterward.
10 Babson College students and recent graduate teams are spending 10 intensive weeks in Babson’s Summer Venture Program to advance their businesses.
44 Israeli and Palestinian students (20 Palestinians, 17 Israeli Jews, and 7 Israeli Arabs) will learn entrepreneurship skills and establish businesses this summer at Babson College, building a spirit of peace and understanding through entrepreneurship to bring back to their countries.
Beginning in fall 2011, Babson College will offer a single MBA program (The Babson MBA) – with a curriculum based on Babson’s proven combination of deep functional business knowledge and our philosophy of Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® – that will be delivered four ways.
14 businesses started by Babson College alumni and students are among the 125 MassChallenge startup competition finalists.
Dozens of graduating Babson College undergraduate and MBA students are starting their own businesses.
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone & Ashoka Founder/CEO William Drayton will speak at Babson College Commencement ceremonies on May 14, 2011.
Babson Executive and Enterprise Education, a division of Babson College, is expanding its activities in Brazil, training the country’s leaders to create and operate new venture opportunities.
Min.us has received the Babson College 2011 Student Business of the Year Award.
Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger received the "Entrepreneurial Leadership Award" as the nation’s most Entrepreneurial University President at the “11th National Policy Forum on Innovation and Minority Entrepreneurship Education”.
Undergraduate business Redeemr, Inc. and MBA business SkyCrepers, LLC were winners of the final round of the Babson College Business Plan Competitions, which took place during the school’s Celebrating Student Venturing Day.
Babson College, the top-ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship, is hosting the Babson Global Forum in Shanghai, China on April 9-11, bringing its world-renowned leadership in entrepreneurship education to China.
Six Babson student businesses including: 1) two waste renewable companies; 2) a medical counseling website; 3) a fast-serve crepe franchise; 4) a social networking site and; 4) a business intelligence technology firm will participate in the final round of the Babson College Business Plan Competitions during the school’s Celebrating Student Venturing day Thursday, April 14, 2011.
The 3rd Babson Latin Entrepreneurship Forum, the largest event among U.S. universities dedicated to entrepreneurial activities in Latin America, will take place Friday April 1, 2011 at Babson College.
Babson College’s Graduate School is among the "Business Schools Best for 'Green Business' Education", according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
The Fourth Annual Cutler Center Babson Investment Management Association (BIMA) Conference, “The Global Outlook and Investment Strategies,” will be held March 25, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Babson College.
For the second year in a row, Babson College is one of the nation’s elite – a top 20 undergraduate business program, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 Ranking Of “The Best Undergraduate Business Schools.” Babson is ranked Number 20.
The Babson College Energy and Environmental Club will hold its 5th annual Energy & Environmental Conference, “Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future,” on Thursday March 31, 2011, to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship will play a pivotal role in shaping the green economy in the years to come.
Bangkok University has become a member of Babson’s new Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (GCEE), as of January 2011. In association with Bangkok University’s GCEE membership, Babson College will assist Bangkok University in the development of its School of Entrepreneurship.
Babson College first-year undergraduate students have launched 18 new businesses that they will operate through the end of their school year. Up to $3,000 in start-up money is available from the College, and all profits are donated to a charity chosen by the business.
The Financial Times 2011 Global MBA Rankings has ranked the Babson College MBA program #1 in Entrepreneurship for the second consecutive year.
Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status Can Lead to Better Business Practices has been coauthored by Babson College’s Mary Godwyn, assistant professor of Sociology, and Donna Stoddard, associate professor of Information Technology Management.
Babson College’s Mark Donohue, Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mary Gentile, director of the business curriculum Giving Voice to Values and Babson Senior Research Scholar, and Mark Albion, who served as Babson’s first director of the Lewis Initiative, are among the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior in 2010.
Babson College’s Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) – where participants explore the entrepreneurial process with a focus on the “art and craft” of teaching and learning entrepreneurship in order to raise the quality, content, and process of teaching entrepreneurship – took place January 9-13 at the Babson Executive Conference Center (BECC).
Babson College is offering three new Summer Study Programs for outstanding high school students starting this summer 2011.
Babson professors I. Elaine Allen, Candida Brush, Bradley George, Erik Noyes, and Andrew Zacharakis are among co-authors of The Life Cycle Of New Ventures Emergence, Newness and Growth, (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010).
Babson College, ranked #1 in the world in entrepreneurship, announced it has signed a lease on property in San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. This new facility, equipped with the latest classroom technologies and tele-presence capabilities, will house Babson’s Fast Track MBA program, effective with the next class that begins in March, 2011.
Babson College’s Fast Track MBA program is expected to double in size by March, just one year after the program was first launched.
Babson College Professor Joel Shulman has created a stock Mutual Fund of Global Entrepreneurs. The new mutual fund, EntrepreneurShares, is based on the entrepreneurial characteristics of business managers at more than 400 of the best-managed, publicly-traded, entrepreneurial companies in the world. Visit http://entrepreneurshares.com/
The new book Action Trumps Everything explains how the power of entrepreneurial thought and action -- at home and work -- brings people closer to their life dreams.
The Entrepreneur StoryBooth -- that lets people share instant 20 second video stories about their entrepreneurial experience -- has been launched by Babson College and the Business Innovation Factory (BIF).
The new book --The Development of University-Based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems—Global Practice -- provides critical insight based on cutting-edge analyses of how to frame, design, launch, and sustain efforts in the area of entrepreneurship. Babson College Professors Michael Fetters and Patricia Greene are research contributors and co-edited the new book from Edward Elgar Publishing.
Babson College will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 Nov. 15 – 21 with a series of events and activities.
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