Co-authored by Babson students Juliana Bonilla, Ritik Chadha, and Rohan Thompson. Thursday, August 5th, we competed in the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) student research paper and presentation contest. Like last year, the 2021 ALSB conference was online. We wrote our papers as part of our business law course (Law 1000) under the…
By student guest authors Max Janes, Lucy Wang, Daniel Wybraniec: On Friday August 8th, we took part in the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) annual international conference as Babson students have done in the past. This time there was a twist: it was all online. Instead of attending a conference in places like…
Imagine being a job seeker, but not being free to accept an offer. Imagine being an employer who’s not free to hire the most qualified person. Now imagine being an entrepreneur with a start-up that will serve a community and hire local talent during the COVID-19 outbreak, but your legal status does not allow you…
A customizable experiential learning project allowed students to either (1) interview a professional of their choice or (2) partner with founders in MIT Enterprise Forum CEE to learn how legal astuteness can make-or-break an organization. The project was an opportunity to take ownership of their learning, pursue a passion, network, and take a deeper dive…
Babson MBA and undergraduate students recently partnered with top foreign start-ups in the MIT Enterprise Forum (EF) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to explore issues in US market entry strategy. These issues related to law, and included questions discussed with entrepreneurs throughout the course: business formation and strategy, intellectual property (IP), contracts, liability, human resources…
Our talk with four entrepreneurial leaders: Amelia Adams, Allison (Abrams) Yee, Asheen Phansey, and Bianca Jordan (all alumni, and/or otherwise associated with Babson) provided a great wrap-up to our course on legal astuteness with regard to business formation and strategy, IP, contracts, torts, and HR. Their profiles, full titles, and connections to Babson are as…
Danielle Goldman of Open Avenues, Brandale Randolph of 1854 Cycling, and Kevin Loos of CrowdComfort recently spoke on the value of legal astuteness with students, shared emotionally resonant backstories that explain their drive, and highlighted resources in our local start-up ecosystem, including the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL) at Babson, Greentown Labs, and Mass…
Jason Cipriano has been an entrepreneur, naval officer, supply chain executive at a robotics start-up, and now oversees diversity and inclusion in the supply chain of State Street. As one might guess, students found his real-life examples related to tort liability (after classes on business formation, IP, and contracting) to be fascinating. With light edits,…
What can we learn by comparing the experiences of: Eagle Wu, whose startup, Vinvi VR, contracts with the Defense Department and Karim El-Gamal, who started Rail Trail Flatbread and New City Microcreamery with fellow Babson alumnus Michael Kasseris? Students previously noted take-aways related to law, strategy, and entrepreneurship based on the conversation with our first…
Howard Susser, Chair of IP Litigation at Burns & Levinson LLP, visited our law class for MBAs. Tales of clients like Sportvision (best known for the Virtual Yellow 1st&10 line on televised football and other TV graphics) memorably illustrated themes for entrepreneurs. Below are highlights of take-aways from us (as a class) based on written…