Business: LiveFyre; www.livefyre.com
Mission: To inspire and facilitate conversation about what’s going on in the world right now.
The Start: Incorporated in April 2009. Left our full-time jobs in July. Launched the site December 7, 2009
Revenues: We have two main streams of revenue: advertising and licensing. Mini Cooper signed on as our premiere launch sponsor so we [...]

Name of business: Taylor Stitch; www.taylorstitch.com
Mission: Our mission is to partner technology and American tailoring to create custom fit dress shirts of incredible value and to distill the world marketplace through the lens of craftsmanship and value.
Founded: 2008  
Initial Investment: $20,000
Broke Even: Not yet, but soon…
Where: San Francisco  Founders: Barrett Purdum ’07, barrett@taylorstitch.com, and Michael Maher [...]

Ankota CTO Ken Accardi is quoted in a new Babson video promoting the Fast Track MBA.
Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM). Ankota provides Home Care Software Solutions delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that improves efficiency and compliance within Home Healthcare Operations. All Ankota solutions are designed with [...]

Name of business: Mi-Bra

Founder/s: Carolina Baker ‘05, carolina.baker@gmail.com

The beginning: A little more than a year ago, I took long distance running up as a hobby and started participating in marathons. I immediately noticed a need for an eco-friendly women’s sports bra with a pocket. So I contacted a manufacturer in Colombia that my family knew [...]

Last night, November 17, about 40 people gathered to honor the many African people who traveled from Africa to the Americas, where those who survived the trip were sold into slavery.
Unshackled Memory included an installation of paper boats painted in colors representing the vibrant hues of traditional Africa dress, as well as the multitude of [...]

                                             
On November 16, 2009, the OEM (Organizing for Effective Management) class met in Knight Auditorium for a challenge and hands-on lesson.
They were told that NASA is their new client and that they must create a safe, cost-effective landing device for NASA’s spacecrafts. They were placed in teams, given a bag of materials [...]

Babson’s Center for Information Management Studies—better known as CIMS—and Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) held a Year Up ‘Class Field Trip’ today in Knight Auditorium.  About 100 young people participated in a workshop to learn:        

About Babson from undergraduate admission dean Grant Gosselin,

The meaning and value of networking and interviewing for a job from [...]

 
On Tuesday I attended a talk by visiting artist Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed in Sorenson Theater.  Then yesterday I was able to spend time talking to, and learning from, this remarkable man.  I was captivated by the artist/activist and fortunate for the opportunity to talk one on one.  The downside is that I can’t possibly [...]

Besides statistics, Babson colleagues Elaine Allen and George Recck are also intensely serious about baseball.  It was a natural for them to blend the two to look and speculate at the “what ifs” of managing baseball teams.
They spoke at the Babson College/Wellesley Bank Business Series at the Wellesley Chamber’s Networking Before 9 breakfast at Babson [...]

This past spring Babson Entrepreneurship Professor Patricia G. Greene presented at the Entrepreneurship Eco-System Conference, co-sponsored by Babson’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship researchers from schools in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. gathered to examine cases in each of their universities, and create a new teaching model that would catapult entrepreneurship [...]