By Patricia Berens | January 18, 2019
To celebrate Martin Luther King‘s legacy, Kanopy has partnered with various of their content providers to make 16 movies available from Friday, Jan. 18th to Wednesday, Jan. 23rd free of charge to us. With films created mere years after his death as well as recent examinations of his enduring influence, this collection provides a fully…
By Patricia Berens | November 30, 2018
Do you like listening to podcasts? Are you trying to find podcasts on business topics? Check out our new guide — Listen to This: Podcasts — which lists a wide variety of sources for business podcasts, including topics like entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, women in business, and more!
By Patricia Berens | November 12, 2018
Did you know that Horn Library subscribes to several research sources that provide in-depth analyses of the political and economic landscapes in various countries? Check out these links: BMI Research — look for their country risk reports which are updated quarterly and provide political and economic SWOT analyses, plus data. Emerging Markets Information Service —…
By Patricia Berens | November 6, 2018
Statista has lots of industry, market, and economic statistics from major countries around the world, plus “dossiers” of related data on a variety of topics. It’s very easy to use, provides details about and links to the original sources of the data, provides proper citations, and allows for easy exporting of graphs and charts. Statista…
By J Hebard | October 9, 2018
The Vault team has fixed the problem causing the outage. Everything should be working properly now. Vault is temporarily offline due to unexpected site maintenance. The vendor is working to get access restored. This is a global issue. They hope to have access restored within the next few hours.
By Patricia Berens | September 17, 2018
If you’re interested in marketing, market research, or information sciences, you’re eligible to apply! One of the requirements is to submit an essay that addresses the following questions: In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges that market researchers and data scientists will face in the future? What are some potential ways to confront these challenges?…
By Michael Chmura | August 22, 2018
Babson CAO Katherine Craven has been elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable by members during its 39th annual meeting, hosted by Foley Hoag in Boston. The Roundtable is a nonprofit, member-driven, public policy organization representing CEOs and senior executives from companies in diverse industry sectors that employ more than 250,000 people across the Commonwealth.…
By Shannon Sweeny | July 2, 2018
Guest post by Leticia Stallworth ’99, MBA’13 More than 60 Babson students, alumni, faculty, and staff converged in Atlanta from June 1–3, 2018, for the Black Affinity Network’s (BAN) second annual Leadership Retreat. Student leaders, including CWEL, Diversity, and Global Scholars, spent the weekend getting to know alumni, faculty, and staff while participating in a…
By Michael Chmura | June 22, 2018
Babson College has received the 2018 ADDP Business Partner Award from the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers. This ADDP Award is an opportunity to acknowledge an organization that consistently embodies practices that promote community integration and inclusion of persons with developmental disabilities and/or brain injuries in the workplace. In presenting the award, ADDP Conference Committee…
By Patricia Berens | June 15, 2018
The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes, focusing on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more. Find the link to access Feature Films for Education on Horn…