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Lecturer Peter Cohan Authors Book on Company Growth Strategies

Strategy Lecturer Peter Cohan has authored Disciplined Growth Strategies: Insights from the Growth Trajectories of Successful and Unsuccessful Companies. The book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth. Read more from an interview with Cohan and…

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Utilizing Entrepreneurship To Propel Organizations Across Generations

Matt R. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurship Division, Faculty Director for the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, and Academic Director for the Global Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Project. We can’t celebrate the great news about the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business’s 24th consecutive year as the No. 1 school in entrepreneurship…

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Professor Wendy Murphy Keynotes Women in Leadership Conference

Dr. Wendy Murphy will serve as one of the as keynote speakers for the 2017 Women in Leadership Conference according to the University of West Florida College of Business Executive Mentor Program. The annual event will be held Friday, March 3, from 11:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the UWF Conference Center and Auditorium, Building 22,…

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Babson Vice Provost Brush Named USASBE Longenecker Fellow

Babson Vice Provost for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Candy Brush has been named a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  A USASBE Justin G. Longenecker Fellow is the highest recognition that the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) gives to individuals who have made an…

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Vice Provost Brush Among Keynotes At Euro-American Conference Of Women Leaders

The “Women Entrepreneurs, As Development And Wealth Generators” Conference features Babson Vice Provost – Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Candy Brush delivering the Closing Keynote on Women Entrepreneurs. This 3rd Euro-American Conference Of Women Leaders takes place February 2nd, 2017 in Costa Rica and features an opening session with Dr. Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica. The…

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Being Entrepreneurial: Practices To Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset

Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Candy Brush will discuss “Being Entrepreneurial: Practices to Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset” at the Estrad lecture series of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute in Stockholm on December 2, 2016. ESBRI’s web-TV will livestream the presentation. ”Estrad” is an open lecture series where researchers present their latest findings…

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Thirty-Seven Academic Institutions Participate In Inaugural STEP Global Academic Conference

Babson College hosted the inaugural STEP Project for Family Enterprise Global Academic Conference at its new Boston campus location on October 13-15, 2016.  Fifty-five STEP scholars from 35 outstanding academic institutions representing 29 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico,…

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Faculty Offer Perspectives About Women’s Enterprise

Two Babson College Entrepreneurship professors are among the lecturers at the Telfer School of Management speaker series, Perspectives about Women’s Enterprise.  The speaker series features expert presentations about entrepreneurship and innovation, viewed through a gender lens. Professor Patricia Greene will speak on November 8th on The ABCs of Growth: Aspirations, Behaviors, and Confidence.  She will be presenting…

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Design That Matters Joins Global Health Track Of Affordable Design And Entrepreneurship Program

Olin College and Babson College, with vital support from the Autodesk Foundation, announce that Design that Matters (DtM) will join the new Global Health track within the Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship (ADE) program.  ADE is a collaborative course in which students co-create new products and social ventures with communities around the world to address challenges…

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Babson Research Featured At Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium

Adjunct faculty member Ken Accardi MBA’05 describes himself as being transformed by his Babson education.  His early career was at GE Healthcare where he led global software development for their X-Ray product line.  He then became Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the service division that doubled in size to $4B during his tenure. Since Babson,…