Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., announces the dedication of The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, a new facility designed for the support and advancement of entrepreneurship, on Saturday, October 24, 1998 at 4:00 p.m.
The Babson School of Executive Education in Wellesley, Mass., drawing on its expertise in entrepreneurial curriculu, will premier The Babson Program on Corporate entrepreneurship . The open-enrollment program is designed to teach senior managers principles of entrepreneurship for use within their existing businesses to help spur revenue growth and identify7 new business oportunities.
In a surprise tribute to its retiring president and former corporate executive William F. Glavin, Babson College announced the naming of the William F. Glavin Center for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College. Major donations and net proceeds from the New York event have garnered $15.5 million to fund eight endowed faculty chairs for the Center.
Babson College announces the 1997 inductees to The Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. They will be honored at the 20th annual Founder's Day program, Wed.,April 16, 1997 on the Babson campus in Wellesley.This year's Academy inductees include: Willie D. Davis, Leo Kahn, Leslie C. Quick, Jr. and Thomas G. Stemberg
One of every three U.S. households--37 percent, or 35 million households--includes someone who has had a primary role in a new or small business, according to a first-of-its-kind study by an international research collaborative.
More than 42,000 franchised units will start up nationwide this year, joining the 570,000 already out there. But fresh opportunities to be an innovative, profitable frachisee still abound accourding to Babson franchise expert Stephen Spinelli.
A team of MBA students from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College beat the competition from Boston College, Boston IUniversity, MIT, Northeastern University, and Suffolk University to win first place in the Lotus Bean Town MBA Marketing Competition.
Robert J. Eng, associate professor of marketing at Babson College, was selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright Scholar award to the People's Republic of China. His research will center on two emerging business issues for China: finding, attracting, and retaining qualified personnel; and examining the country's distribution and transportation networks.
The business school environment has never been more competitive and students have higher expections of their schools that must be met, said former Wall Street executive and academic leader Leo I. Highdon, Jr., during his inauguration as tenth president of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA. Babson is recognized internationally for its strength in entrepreneurial management education.
Mass. educators who specialize in media literacy--critical thinking about television, newspapers, radio, magazines, movies. and the Internet--are the recent recipients of a $50,000 grant from the Felton Media Literacy Scholars Program. Renee Hobbs, associate professor, communication, Babson College will direct the program scheduled to begin this spring for 15 Boston-area educators and media professionals.
Nine teams of three to six students each from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson Colleghe will showcase their product innovations at the College's Third Annual Product Design Fair. Three of last year's designs resulted in a marketable product for the sponsoring company. One of these three designs has also received a patent.
This monthly electronic broadcast is designed to keep you up-to-date on happenings at the Babson School of Executive Education, a provider of management development programs to clients around the world. Last month the School delivered custom executive programs to Atlantic Data Services, Pitney Bowes, Schwan's Sales Enterprises and Siemens Nixdorf.
Babson faculty delivered customized exxecutive programs to Colonia Insurance, DunkinDonuts, LIMRA, Olsten Health Services, Petroleos de Venezuela, and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme.
This monthly update is designed to keep you informed about activities at the Babson School of Executive Education, which provides management development programs to companies around the world.
Babson College in MA has announced three initiatives to reinforce the College's worldwide expertise in Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Babson College announces the rollout of the QuestGen Assessment System. The online software system, allows college students to assess and improve their academic skills.
In an effort to help business students understand the role of journalists in helping to expose and communicate to the public about the newsgathering processes involved in the current spate of accounting frauds, a Babson alumni and a communication professor have teamed up to create a creative and compellingly realistic simulation involving leaks, conflicting information, and a paper trail pointing in a number of different directions.
On Wednesday, Dec. 11th, Babson College MBA students in the Product Design and Development course will showcase eight new consumer products. Teams of 48 students conceive, design, model, and test each product.
Artist JSG Boggs is creating a permanent 9x20 foot digital painting of a "Boggs bill" at Babson College, visible from College Drive behind floor-to-ceiling windows. Based on the twenty-pound English banknote that commemorates the life of William Shakespeare, the artwork will reflect Babson's commitment to the arts, a valuable component of educating creative business leaders.
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.
Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea and Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo, Inc., will address graduates at commencement ceremonies on May 15.
After two years of decline, U.S. entrepreneurial activity increased from 10.5 percent in 2002 to 11.9 percent in 2003. "Unfortunately, we found a lack of job growth and a disappointing drop in the level of classic venture capital funding," said Babson College Professor William D. Bygrave.
Seventy-five years ago, Babson College founder Roger Babson predicted the Crash of '29 and the Great Depression. Wall Street ridiculed his warnings but on September 29, 1929, they sadly came true.
Founding institutions Babson College and The London Business School and teams from 34 consortium countries have announced leadership and structural changes to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, designed to further strengthen what is the world's most comprehensive annual barometer of entrepreneurship.
Babson College and Instituto de Empresa have signed a strategic alliance to jointly develop teaching, research, and training programs in the fields of entrepreneurship and family enterprising.
Forty-one percent of entrepreneurs are women, according to a cross-national study of thirty-four countries. The first Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report on women's entrepreneurial activity was released today by The Center For Women's Leadership at Babson College.
"Adding Value to Your Business: How Spirituality Improves Profits and Well-Being" is the focus of Babson College's Eighth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality, which will take place on March 22, 2005.
Entrepreneur magazine has named Babson College the #1 national program for entrepreneurship. The magazine also named Babson Entrepreneurship Professors William Bygrave, Stephen Spinelli, Jr., and Jeffry Timmons the leading Entrepreneurship Program Directors.
U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 12th year in a row.
The Babson/HBCU Entrepreneurship Consortium is developing case studies and other curricular materials focused on black entrepreneurs.
Babson College Associate Professor of Finance Michael Goldstein has been elected chair of NASDAQ's Economic Advisory Board for 2005.
Joseph J. Grano, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Centurion Holdings, LLC and Chairman, Homeland Security Council, and Ellyn A. McColgan, President, Fidelity Brokerage Company, will speak at Babson College's 86th Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 21, 2005.
Babson College senior Julian Simcock has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, the first at the top-ranked school for entrepreneurship. Simcock will travel to South Africa to study the business support services currently available to entrepreneurs.
Babson MBA student business "Lifeprints" "“ a new concept in high-end portrait studios "“ is the winner of the 2005 Babson MBA Business Plan Competition.
Sixty-five leading CEOs/owners and entrepreneurship professors are gathering in teams at Babson College to create intellectual and practical connections between theory and practice in teaching entrepreneurship.
Nearly 400 delegates from 24 countries are attending the premier scholarly forum for entrepreneurial research "“ the Babson-Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC) at Babson College.
A study looking at Women's Business Centers (WBCs) nationwide found that these programs are drivers of entrepreneurship among a wide range of women entrepreneurs, particularly those formerly underserved -- socially and economically disadvantaged women.
Babson College and the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering this week are teaching engineering educators how to apply entrepreneurship theory and practice as part of an engineering education. The goal is to develop student innovators with business savvy.
It is the first ever event to exclusively focus on how families build legacies through growth.
Babson College economics and entrepreneurship professor Maria Minniti has been named an advisor for the United Nations' Development Program (UNDP) to work particularly on the Poverty Reduction Project.
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has accepted 18 student businesses into the Babson College Business Hatchery for the summer 2005 term. The Babson Hatchery provides rent-free space and resources to current students in order to support their efforts to launch successful businesses.
Babson College's 400+ freshmen, operating 14 student businesses, raised a record $62,500 in profits, which were then donated to various charities.
Babson College and HEC School of Management have signed a wide-ranging agreement to cooperate on a full range of student oriented programs as well as faculty exchanges and research projects.
Babson College Professor Maria Minniti has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on entrepreneurship and population dynamics.
Keith Rollag, Babson College management division assistant professor, has won the 2005 New Educator Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, a national academic organization focused on improving management education, primarily in organizational behavior, leadership, and strategy.
For the ninth consecutive time, U.S.News & World Report magazine has named Babson the #1 undergraduate program in the U.S. for Entrepreneurship.
The inclusion of Lavigne in their Bio-Pharma program underscores Babson Executive Education's commitment to combining the real life lessons of industry executives with the expertise of Babson faculty in their executive education programs.
The Consortium Program, the only one of its kind in Asia, is designed to help organizations accelerate new avenues of growth.
Babson College has admitted students from Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans who are unable to attend college this semester because of the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
Babson Executive Education's Research Fellow, Donald Cohen, will address the Biotechnology Industry Organization's Human Resources Conference in New York Sept. 25-27, 2005.His presentation will address how the BIO industry can better support "knowledge workers."
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