Readers are also enjoying the insights of Babson Founder Roger Babson's December 25, 1910 New York Times article on the Panic of 1837.  He actually reviews 13 U.S. financial panics.  “History is of value only in teaching us how to act in the present and the future,” he writes. (Thanks to Jeff Korzenik.)
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Babson College Founder Roger Babson's April 9, 1911 New York Times article on the Panic of 1873 is enjoying renewed popularity during the current financial crisis. (Thanks to Holland Ward.)
In 1932, during the darkest days of the Great Depression, he wrote Cheer Up, where he reminded readers that “prosperity always returns.”

Name of business: Emergent Energy Group INC; www.emergentgroup.com
Mission: To advance environmentally benign, distributed energy, and sustainable practices through transparent, community-based planning.
Began: January 2007
Where: Tufts University, Somerville, Massachusetts
Founders: Gregory Hering, Jared Rodriguez; jrodriguez@emergentgroup.com; Office: 617-764-0206; Mobile:  845-548-5524; Jayson Uppal;
How the Idea Began: Emergent began in the basement of Tilton Hall at Tufts University. Three Tufts [...]

            
“You need a strategic plan with solid analysis and objective thought to bring you through these turbulent times,” says Elizabeth Thornton, President and CEO, Entrepreneurship Advantage Inc, and part time entrepreneurship faculty member of The Arthur M. Blank Center of Entrepreneurship at Babson College.
The event was the Babson College/Wellesley Bank Business Series at the [...]

Ugrad student biz FlameUp, which mirrors the up-voting or down-voting pattern of popular social bookmarking sites, allows users to write about what's bothering them most, and lets the community vote on it, or Burn it. View the press release at http://au.sys-con.com/node/710704.

Avatars watch the video feed on Babson Island from President Schlesinger's Inauguration.

Didiom, an award-winning mobile media service provider, has announced the beta launch of the first mobile application to integrate a mobile music placeshifting service and a pay-per-download, full-track service that offers over 1 million MP3 songs. The free, all-in-one Didiom application allows music fans to wirelessly access their home computer's iTunes® library from over two [...]

               
Right now we're in unchartered territory,” said Babson's Peter Cohen, describing what he sees as the “100-year crash.”
The event was the Babson College/Wellesley Bank Business Series at the Wellesley Chamber's Networking Before 9 breakfast held here at Babson.
Cohen who comments frequently on  the financial crisis for CNBC, MSNBC, MarketWatch  and others, said that flooding [...]