By Shannon Sweeny | May 16, 2016
Bryanne Leeming MBA ’16 and Siddharth Astir MBA ’16 have been honored as two of Poets & Quants Best & Brightest MBAs In the Class of 2016. Out of approximately 200 submissions, 100 graduating MBA students were chosen. Fifty-seven of them are women, and 53 different MBA programs are represented. “This year’s selections were a…
By Shannon Sweeny | May 12, 2016
According to The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, around the globe, an estimated 20.9 million people are in situations of so-called modern day slavery, or forced labor, at any point of time. Many of these victims are trafficked within their country or across borders. Considering this number, there is an urgent need to improve…
By Shannon Sweeny | May 11, 2016
Through Babson’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, the Human Freedom Entrepreneurial Leadership Program will be holding their first annual Human Freedom Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Competition on Friday May 13, 2016 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Trim Dining Hall at Babson. The Human Freedom Entrepreneurial Leadership Program launched this spring semester as a sister program…
By Shannon Sweeny | May 10, 2016
Babson undergraduate student Caitlin Gomez-Howard ‘16 will be spending her first year post-grad in Teach for America. She will be teaching middle and high school math in the California Capital Valley, Stockton, CA. Hometown: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Why Teach for America? “After speaking to one of the recruiters, how could I not be interested in working for…
By Shannon Sweeny | May 2, 2016
Greensole is a Babson graduate student business making a social impact by recycling discarded shoes and creating comfortable footwear for communities in need. Greensole is founded by Babson graduate student, Shriyans Bhandari MS’16, a long distance runner that saw an issue with how many shoes he was discarding, and Ramesh Dhami. In 2016, Greensole hit their milestone…
By Shannon Sweeny | May 2, 2016
Babson leadership members Sadie Burton-Goss, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, and Jane Edmonds, Vice President of Governance, as well as Babson alumni Daquan Oliver ’14, Executive Director and Founder of WeThrive, Ian So ’08, CEO and Co-Founder of Chicken & Rice Guys, and Esmeralda Lambert MBA’11, CEO and Founder of Esmeralda Lambert LLC have been nominated…
By Shannon Sweeny | April 29, 2016
Babson Alumni, Mihael Mikek MBA’06, CEO at Celtra Inc, won the Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the High Tech category, honoring immigrant entrepreneurs in Massachusetts. The award, presented by The Immigrant Learning Center, honors outstanding Massachusetts immigrant entrepreneurs in four categories: business growth, neighborhood business, high-tech and life science. Babson Alum, Edison Almeida…
By Shannon Sweeny | April 14, 2016
Babson College Assistant Professor of Marketing, Lauren Beitelspacher, has been recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the Most Outstanding 40 under 40 Business School Professors. “In all, 75 professors from 40 different business schools all over the world were nominated by students, alumni and the schools themselves,” says Poets & Quants about the award.…
By Shannon Sweeny | April 13, 2016
Babson undergraduates Hanson Grant ’16 and Ken Zhang ‘16 were recognized once again for their innovative business, Think Board, by the Terry College of Business for the Next Great Consumer Brands Award. Think Board was awarded a $25,000 cash prize and an invitation to present their business at the Next Great Consumer Brands Conference at…
By Shannon Sweeny | April 11, 2016
Peter Cohan, lecturer of business strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson, appears in the film, “We the People: The Market Basket Effect.” The film is the story of the employees of a local grocery chain, Market Basket, who went on strike in 2014 after CEO Arthur T Demoulas was fired by his cousin Arthur S Demoulas.…