Managing Career Transitions
Candida G. Brush, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship, Chair-Entrepreneurship Division, discusses strategies for managing career transitions with Peter Marx, host of Business Insight.
Faculty & Leadership Blog / Date: February 2010
Should You Be An Entrepreneur?
Prof. Dan Isenberg, in his blog at Harvard Business Review’s The Conversation, offers up a test to would be entrepreneurs. He writes: “Should you join the millions of people every year who take the plunge and start their first ventures? I’ve learned in my own years as an entrepreneur — and now an entrepreneurship professor…
Pitching To Angel Investors
Today I went to the February meeting of the Boston Harbor Angels, an angel investor group that meets here on the Babson campus. It was great to see one of our Fast Track MBA graduates pitch for his new business, Textaurant. The concept is a text messaging system for those patrons waiting for…
Tips For Managing Career Transitions And Your Golf Game
For years I have been an avid golfer, spending as much time in the summer playing on team, in tournaments, or four holes in the evening with my husband. Being on the golf course allows me to reflect, enjoy the outdoors, and focus on something unrelated to work. Most golf courses are in beautiful settings,…
Entrepreneur Terri Irwin, Carrying On The Crocodile Hunter Dream
The keynote speaker here at the AGSE conference in Australia was Terri Irwin, wife and widow of Steve Irwin, who was famous as the crocodile hunter http://www.crocodilehunter.com/. Terri captivated the audience of academics with her knowledge, passing and entrepreneurial story. At the age of eight-years, she had her own business and had several other entrepreneurial…
Why Study Women’s Entrepreneurship?
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to address the delegates to the 7th AGSE (Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship) research exchange in Queensland. This conference is organized similarly to the Babson College Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (BCERC) and was founded by Prof. Murray Gillen (of Swinburn University) on the BCERC Model. I delivered the opening…
Sluggish Economy Drives Demand For Online Learning
New Study: Online Education up 17% to 4.6 Million. Annual Survey shows recession, influenza among factors driving growth. Professor Elaine Allen comments:
The first two minutes!
Whether you are giving a speech to a large audience, meeting someone at a cocktail party or presenting your case to a venture capitalist for business funding- the first TWO minutes of your comments will make or break your chances of engaging people and encouraging them to want to know more. A research study I…