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 [...]

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 [...]

I spent last week in Elsinore, Denmark with Candy Brush at the USE (Understanding Small Enterprises) conference and would like to follow up on Candy’s latest blog as well.  Three main things stood out for me:  1) LO Skollen (pronounced L O Skōllen) as a place and what it stands for, 2)  the emphasis conference [...]

Name of business: Trade Show Internet; http://www.tradeshowinternet.com/about.html
Founder/s: Seth Burstein, MBA 2011; and Ian Framson
The beginning: January 2009
Initial Investment: $500
Employees: 2 full time, 3 contractors
Founder’s Past Life: Seth Burstein was living the awe inspiring life of an actuary (statistician for the insurance industry)
Initial Preparation to Germinate Idea: There is a lot of price gouging in the [...]

I am on my way back from Elsinore, Denmark which is the home of the Kronborg Castle, thought to be the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  I attended a conference with the theme of “Understanding Small Enterprises”.  The topics included ways that small firms could ensure a healthy and safe lifestyle for their owner/managers and their [...]

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, was in Boston last Friday and graciously added an MBA roundtable to his agenda.  His team set up an hour for him to meet with a select group of MBA students and a faculty member from seven local business schools.  I readily admit that while I’m not a fan of [...]

For those who love facts and figures, here are some stats about the 2009 Babson Entrepreneurship Forum:
30 speakers shared some hard-earned wisdom on entrepreneurship
9 different panel discussios were featured throughout the day
3 keynote speakers delivered addresses
650 attendees took part in the discussion
In the words of Fast Company co-founder Alan Webber, “This is a phenominal achivement, [...]

A team of sophomores from Bryant University was awarded a $27,500 prize for developing a water purification business plan, as part of Babson College’s annual Ideas Into Action Business Plan Competition.
Led by Morgan Morris, the PURO team has designed a portable and customizable individual water filtration bottle.
The winner was selected from a group of three [...]