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News from the Babson College Community
September, 2009

Undergrad dean Dennis Hanno remarks on the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s ranking of Babson’s entrepreneurship program as #1 in both undergrad and graduate schools.
 

Scotland could increase its entrepreneurial potential if more enterprise training was available in its colleges and universities, according to the authors of a new report published by the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde.
The tenth Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Scotland Report found that Scotland’s actual business start-up rate was the second lowest in the UK [...]

Raghu Tadepalli, dean of Babson’s graduate school, chats with NECN news anchor R.D. Sahl on being named #1 for entrepreneurship by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine in both the undergrad and graduate programs.

 
A partnership between Babson College, Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College was announced by the three college presidents on September 9.  This collaboration is a natural outcome of the presidents’ teaching in a 3-college lecture series on leadership and ethics held last spring on the Olin campus.
 
The presidents agree that this is just [...]


Prof. Andrew Zacharakis answers seven questions about entrepreneurship. 

Name of business: The Beer Genome, LLC. www.thebeergenome.com 
• Mission: To facilitate an online beer community, and to provide accurate customized recommendations to our users.
• Where: Online - headquartered in Boston, MA 
• Began in: Spring of 2009
• Initial Investment: $5,000 
• Founder: Connor Tyrrell (’08), Justin Unger (’08), Jopy Henriques, Mike Kelly, and John Muggeridge
• [...]

Babson, Olin and Wellesley college presidents hold a community celebration of their new three-college agreement that builds on geographic proximity and complementary educational strengths to explore an expanded partnership among the three institutions.

Name of business: Tyler Foundation, Inc. - www.tylerfoundation.org
tylerfoundation@yahoo.com
 
• Mission:  Provide financial support to families’ of children with epilepsy that are being treated at Boston Children’s Hospital and UMASS Medical Center.  We are dedicated to helping improve the quality of life for families affected by epilepsy. 
 
• Where:  Shirley, Massachusetts.
 
• Began in:  2006
 
• Initial Investment:  $0
 
• [...]