Author: Barbara Blair

Babson Receives ‘Rising STAR – Gold’ Status in AASHE 2015 Sustainable Campus Index

Babson was rated a ‘Rising Star – Gold’ and earned a 15-point increase in its overall score from its previous report in The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) 2015 Sustainable Campus Index. Babson was specifically commended for its efforts in Career Development –“Babson College’s Undergraduate Center for Career Development has…

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Ready? Set? Now Vote! By Dec. 9th

Three Babson Entrepreneurs−Esmeralda Lambert, PICCPerfect, and Green Piñata Showcase Their Products at Mass Innovation Nights – Dec. 9th Let’s get the vote out for these three impressive Babson Businesses presenting at the Dec. 9th Mass Innovation Nights #81. Esmeralda Lambert−Statement hand-woven jewelry inspired with Latin and Caribbean influences. PICCPerfect–For patients undergoing long term IV treatment,…

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Babson Undergrad Team Takes First Place In International Business Contest

Three Babson Undergrads, who are Glavin Global Fellows, took home the first place $2,000 cash prize in the Brigham Young University Business Language Case Competition last week in Provo, Utah. Babson won the Spanish division/category.The Babson team–Maryam Aram B’18 of Texas; Kamil Altintasoglu B’17 from Craiova, Romania; and Claudia Ogrezeanu B’16 from Moreni, Romania−outperformed at…

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Alumni Entrepreneur Alex Hardy M’01 is a 2015 MassChallenge $50K Gold Winner

Babson Alumni Entrepreneurs continue to impact Boston’s startup arena.   On Oct. 28th, MassChallenge, the no-equity startup accelerator, announced the winners of the MassChallenge Boston 2015 accelerator program, awarding $1.5 million in grants to 16 startups (out of 128).Alex Hardy M’01 and co-founder Jim Miller were $50K Gold Winners for their venture Nix86, a cloud based,…

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Research Article by Marketing Professors Anne Roggeveen and Dhruv Grewal is Accepted to The Journal of Marketing

A Marketing Research article by Babson Professors Anne Roggeveen and Dhruv Grewal with co-authors Claudia Townsend and R. Krishnan from The University of Miami, has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Marketing (JM). Only 8% of all submissions in a given year are accepted to JM. The Impact of Dynamic Presentation Format on…

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Father & Daughter Team Up to Launch Bluewire Audio LLC

Emily Proos B’15 and her anesthesiologist father, Dr. Andrew Proos, have developed a safer and less cumbersome audio speaker system for runners and other physically active buffs. Emily is Bluewire’s CEO and is currently sharing space with other entrepreneurs in the Babson Hatchery program. Here’s more of our conversation with her. Q. What inspired your…

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10KSB: Not Business As Usual

By Patricia G. Greene, Professor of Entrepreneurship We have learned the spot for a predictable point of inflection that generally happens about halfway through the second mod (day) of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, a program where entrepreneurship meets economic development. This is the time when some set of the participating business owners ruffle their…

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Daquan Oliver B’14 Wins Coveted Echoing Green 2015 Black Male Achievement Fellowship

His nonprofit—Recesspreneurs—empowers college students to take a hands-on approach to provide entrepreneurial education and mentorship to children of low-income. Global nonprofit Echoing Green today announced that Babson College alumni entrepreneur Daquan J. Oliver B’14 has been awarded a highly competitive and coveted Fellowship to help grow his Recesspreneurs. The Fellowship will provide seed funding, mentoring…

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Babson Entrepreneurs Appointed to Boston 2024 Olympics Advisory Board

Jon Feinman M’10, Founder & Executive Director, Innercity Weightlifting (ICW); and Jason Jacobs M’05, Co-Founder & CEO, Runkeeper have been appointed to the Boston 2024 Olympics Advisory Board. As new members, they further strengthen and represent a diverse participation from a broad range of community organizations, business, education and sports. “This opportunity of a lifetime…

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