Babson MBA alum Richard Enos is all smiles.  The StudySmart www.estudysmart.com founder recently learned that his tutoring and test preparation venture is the highest ranking K-12 tutoring company on Inc. magazine's list of the nation's 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies.  The list ranks companies according to percentage revenue growth from 2003 through 2006.
StudySmart is in the [...]

                         
Name of business: eGestures.com  
Mission: Enabling people to experience gifts beyond the ones of materialistic nature.
Began in: 2007
Where: Founded out of Arlington, MA, USA.Services currently available in Boston, NYC, Miami and will soon be available in other  metropolitan areas across USA and Canada.  Founder: Dmitriy Peregudov
Employees: 3
Founder's Past Life/Business: Peregudov's original profession was software engineering, which [...]

His Texts? - Harry Potter books, of course!
Sorry muggles, the class is full!
Babson History & Society assistant professor Stephen Deets is teaching an advanced course in politics this fall. Required reading is all seven of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally successful Harry Potter books.
Don't try to fake it, kids; you may have to explain the [...]

Name of business: Wedding Payment Plan, LLC; http://www.weddingpaymentplan.com  
Mission: To be the leading consumer finance company specializing in special events.
Began in: 2006
Where: 320 Washington Street, Norwell, MA 01923
Founder: Scott Almeida; scott@weddingpaymentplan.com; 617.828.8532; Babson Undergrad '95, Evening Grad Student (currently on leave of absence)
Employees: 3 (including Jeannie (Kelly) Burtch U91)
Founder's Past Life/Business: CPA, prior six years [...]

This summer Babson junior Sandhya Subramanian was selected to be one of the 48 (from more than one thousand applicants) summer interns for National Public Radio (NPR).

Sandhya worked in the publicity and events department at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C., coordinating external events. She also produced a piece on a luxury chocolate maker for the [...]

                    
Nehme E. Abouzeid MBA '03 (nehme@nehmeonline.com) journeys to Macao, China this week to supervise the grand opening of The Venetian Macao Resort…a $2.4 billion mammoth complex with resort/casino, entertainment, shopping, and a 1.2 million square-foot convention center.
Abouzeid directs large-scale technology projects for Venetian's parent company Las Vegas Sands Inc., and says his Babson education [...]

Former baseball standout Jason Kosow trades his spikes for the small screen when he stars as New York Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunder in the ESPN mini-series, The Bronx Is Burning.

            
 
MBA Alum Eric Hudson's Recycline Inc. is one of 20 entrepreneurship startups to make it to the second round of the Forbes.com “Boost Your Business Contest.”
The twenty—chosen from nearly 1,000 contestants—will narrow to five finalists when your votes are calculated on Aug. 31, 2007. Click here http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2007/08/01/small-business-contest-ent-fin-cx_bn_0801byb07_land.html   to vote for Recycline and read about all the [...]