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Featured Student Business: DashaBella

Name of Business: DashaBella Mission/ Description: DashaBella is a company that is dedicated to promoting women empowerment through our promotional products; we strive to offer the gift of beauty to every woman by specifically targeting women owned businesses and organizations. We understand that it is important for women owned companies and organizations to stand out [...]

Faculty & Leadership

Five Practices of Entrepreneurs Inside and Out

This post originally appeared on Babson Insight. By Heidi Neck All people can learn to think and act entrepreneurially and do so in various contexts. However, our current definitions of entrepreneurship are fostered by an ongoing rhetoric. Today’s narrative mythologizes super heroes—entrepreneurs who are born, not made; geniuses with the brilliant idea working alone in [...]

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Featured Alumni Business: House Bear Brewing

Name of Business: House Bear Brewing Mission/ Description: House Bear Brewing makes mead, an alcoholic beverage crafted from fermented honey, using quality honey from responsible apiaries and fresh ingredients. We source “fresh, local, responsible” whenever possible because it’s good for the bees, the environment, our partners and our recipes. Name and Email: Beth Borges M’10; [...]

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New Leadership Roles for Shahid Ansari and Dennis Hanno

This is a copy of a message emailed to the on-campus community this morning from President-elect Kerry Healey. I am writing to share significant and exciting news about Babson’s next generation of leadership.  The changes in leadership structure are being initiated to ensure that Babson benefits from continuity of management, remains in a strong position [...]

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Featured Alumni Business: Cressey Performance, LLC

Name of Business Cressey Performance, LLC Mission Statement Cressey Performance (CP) is a high-performance training facility designed by athletes for athletes, and for those looking to make a serious commitment to their long-term health. CP provides athletes with an environment in which they can identify and work toward quantifiable improvements both inside and outside the [...]

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Featured Student Business: Game Day Men’s Products

Name of Business: Game Day Men’s Products Mission/ Description: To provide skincare to the active man who demands the best. Our daily care collection addresses all your needs from irritation to anti-aging to breakouts. Game Day has you covered. Name and Email: Demetri Demascus ’13; ddemascus@gamedaymens.com Located: Greenwich, CT Inspiration for Business: I was motivated [...]

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Featured Student Business: Pioneero

Name of Business: Pioneero Mission/ Description: Pioneero.me is a college-based social network to connect aspiring entrepreneurs, musicians, and filmmakers. We want to be a site that helps people find collaborators/team-members for music, film and startup projects, as well be a place where students can see and find out about all of the cool projects others [...]

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Featured Alumni Business: Go Pro Workouts

Name of Business: Go Pro Workouts Mission: To make athletes better Description: We believe the way most amateur athletes train for sports is wrong. Most athletes, at almost every age, simply don’t have access to the best training resources. Their workout and training routines are mediocre at best and in most cases so is their [...]

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Featured Alumni Business: Hiveaway

Name of Business: Hiveaway, LLC Mission/ Description: Our mission is to help employers eliminate barriers to communication and to provide pricing transparency between employees and local health care providers. Alumni Name and Contact Information: Carl Hall, M’03 chall@hiveaway.com Located: North End, Boston, Massachusetts. Beta testing in the Back Bay. Inspiration/Business: The late Professor John Shank: [...]

Faculty & Leadership

Ancient Nubia – Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book at 2012 American Publishers Awards Ceremony

By: Janice Yellin, Professor of Art History I was very pleased to learn that Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile was named best book in the Archaeology and Anthropology category by the 37th Annual American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)! Since I wrote many essays for the book, the award is [...]