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 [...]

I am near the end of a one-month trip to Asia, which included a few conference presentations and presentations at universities, as well as presenting a SEE module for Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR) in Malaysia. The main part of my trip, however, was spent teaching ‘Entrepreneurship in China’ to Babson students enrolled in the [...]

 
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 [...]

“The surest way to live forever is through the giving of love, time, and money. To live today, we must earn and save; to live forever we must serve and give.”  —Roger W. Babson
The third and final talk in the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce 2009 Babson College/Wellesley Bank Business Series was held this morning. The [...]

Last Friday - we held our signature event at Babson - Rocket Pitch Day. This was the 10th consecutive year for this event- and, this is absolutely the BEST of what Babson has to offer - and it symbolizes all that we are.  We had 75 student teams make their “pitches” for business ideas. Each [...]

Prof. William Bygrave says that “Entrepreneurship is the ‘liberal arts’ of a business education. It challenges students to behave both as generalists and specialists, to be creators and creative problem solvers, and to reason conceptually but to implement pragmatically.”  Prof. Bygrave comments on this subject in the BusinessWeek story: “Business: The New Liberal Art” http://bit.ly/3hZm6X.

Today’s college students are admired for their generational ability to multi-task in numerous Web 2.0 technologies.  But how proficient are they in improving the soft skills— personality traits, social graces, communication, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism—to make sound business decisions at work and at home?
Babson College Professor Elizabeth Thornton’s new Entrepreneurship elective—Entrepreneurial Leadership and The [...]

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 [...]