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News from the Babson College Community
January, 2008

                                     Babson College's Kent Jones
Babson College and London Business School today released the findings of the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) to team researchers gathered here from 42 countries.  In-coming Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger said that GEM research is the exception to the historical evolution of management research.
“GEM research on entrepreneurial activity has [...]

Marie Frances Rivera, Class of 2006, is Program Manager at SMILES.  “The name our organization is SMILES,” she says, ”which stands for the Southcoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning, Education and Service.  Our mission is to provide a mentor for every child who needs one in the Southcoast of Massachusetts.  We are presently focusing our service area in the [...]

Prof. Tom Davenport participated in a discussion with Andrew McAfee on the Viability of Enterprise 2.0.  You can listen to the debate at the FastForwardBlog.

Prof. Mark Rice has coauthored the article, Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty, in the Winter 2008 issue of the Sloan Management Reivew.  According to the article description,
“In new-product development, most management approaches presume a high ratio of knowns to unknowns, and most planning involves prescribed pathways through developmental stages. In fact, [...]

Ugrad Joel Holland provided videoblog coverage of the New Hampshire presidential primary voting for WMUR-TV, serving as the station's WMUR.com/YouTube/Facebook campaign trail reporter. To view his coverage, visit http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/14884635/detail.htmlThe senior, named by Businessweek as one of the top 25 entrepreneurs under 25, is founder of Footage Firm. 

Lansdowne, fronted by lead singer Jon Ricci, Class of 2005, has just completed its Armed Forces Entertainment holiday tour for troops in Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan.
The band will continue performing for troops this year in cooperation with USO of New England and USO of New York, including a Fourth of July concert.
Lansdowne's business team includes: [...]