By Adam Sulkowski | May 4, 2020
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…
By Digital Experience Initiative (dXi) | October 28, 2017
Post by Bincy Paul, MBA candidate, with Prof. Ruben Mancha Technology is evolving towards us. Our devices, which used to operate with simple on/off switches, can now feel our touch, listen to us, talk to us, and even recognize us. As a manager or entrepreneur, you should acknowledge this evolution and design your products to…
By Michael Chmura | September 19, 2017
Babson Professor Lauren Beitelspacher becomes the latest Babson faculty member to receive the Pearson Prentice Hall’s Solomon-Marshall-Stuart Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education (American Marketing Association Teaching and Learning SIG). Beitelspacher received the award this summer for innovation in her Retailing class. Previously Professor Anne Roggeveen received the award in 2014 for her creation…
By Digital Experience Initiative (dXi) | June 16, 2017
Post by Ruben Mancha, Sebastian Fixson, Jennifer Bailey, Victor Seidel, Bala Iyer, Sinan Erzurumlu, and Steven Gordon Increasingly competitive market verticals and Digital Titans crossing traditional industry boundaries place pressure on organizations to innovate. Seventy-nine percent of CEO’s participating in a large-scale global survey report innovation as being their top-most or among their top-three priorities.1 At…
By Ruben Mancha | June 7, 2017
By Ruben Mancha and Bala Iyer In the era of digitalization, physical and digital components are seamlessly integrated to create interactive products and services. Value propositions no longer come from what products are, but from the experiences they create. We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution—the digital revolution—and we need to regain perspective…
By Michael Chmura | October 25, 2016
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…
By Michael Chmura | March 7, 2015
Here’s what Babson entertainment law professor and composer, Toni Lester, has to say about the copyright case in the news brought by the family of the great soul singer, Marvin Gaye, against singer/songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams: “The case goes to the heart of how we decide what is innovative and creative, since this…
By Michael Chmura | July 25, 2010
Babson’s Ankush Chopra sees Innovation as the Holy Grail of business. But “Rogue Innovations” create havoc and destroy business profits. His research offers lessons to firms that may be facing such profit-destroying innovations.
By Michael Chmura | November 28, 2009
If we want more entrepreneurs, stop worrying about jumpstarting innovation. Focus on “minnovation.” To read more on minnovation, visit his post at Harvard Business Publishing’s Conversation Starter blog – click here. Daniel Isenberg, Professor of Management Practice