Undergraduate
Today I’m excited to be announced as one of 20 finalists in Microsoft’s Challenge for Change competition. This contest challenged students ages 18-25 to present ideas for change in communities around the world. I have a simple request for your help over the next week. Please vote once a day for my entry and help support the [...]
Creating Social Value
By Bradley Googins & Philip Mirvis A monthly installment from two of The Lewis Institute’s Social Innovation Fellows: Bradley Googins and Philip Mirvis. A recent survey of nearly 800 sustainability professionals in business, government, NGOs, academe, and the media in over seventy countries concluded that “experts overwhelmingly believe companies should collaborate with multiple actors, including [...]
Undergraduate
It takes about two to three hours to commute from my home to where I intern everyday. Knowing that I’m a horrible driver, I decided to use the train to commute to work. You would think that the distance between L.A. and Orange County isn’t that far, but you always have to expect the worst [...]
Undergraduate
I have been pinning for a couple of weeks now. I have been falling in love with Pinterest, because of it’s formatting and simplicity. But, of course, with every job, there are a few challenges. My challenge for this week is the inability to come up with new board ideas, or new ways to make [...]
Undergraduate
I joined Babson in the Spring of 2011 and as I had expected, I have been constantly surrounded by entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneur myself, I’m still yet to remember a complete 24 hours on campus that has fully passed without my friends and I brainstorming ideas, improving business models and what has seemed to be [...]
Undergraduate
OK, so I fully acknowledge that I have fallen off the blogging wagon since my last post. This did not go unnoticed by certain members of my staff and the greater Babson community. I could make excuses about being busy, I don’t know, assembling a class, or mention that we have a whole team of talented [...]
Undergraduate
June 4th, 2013 marked my one-year “workaversary” as part of the Babson Admission Staff. It really blows my mind to think that I’ve been here for now slightly over a year – I guess the time really does fly when you’re having fun and doing what you love. I’ve learned so much about the field [...]
Living Entrepreneurship
We have all seen the statistics on startups’ demise- depending on the source and the industry the start-up is operating in the numbers are anywhere from 30 to 80 percent. Of course not all failures are created equal. Some of the most common mistakes credited with killing startups are going into business for the wrong [...]
Creating Social Value
Sid Espinosa, Microsoft’s Director of Corporate Citizenship, has a recent article in Venture Beat about corporate citizenship: Corporate philanthropy: Good for the Soul and Your Bottom Line. There’s no question what he says is important and very true – he cites a recent study from the Reputation Institute showing that “increasing local community engagement is [...]
Creating Social Value
I knew Michael Sorrell before I met him. I’d hear the news, back in 2010, that one extraordinary college president was leading Paul Quinn College to turn its football field into a farm, now called We Over Me Farm. So when Babson President Len Schlesinger popped into Food Sol’s office last November, and told me [...]
