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Interested in mingling with startups leading the way in Techology, Marketing & Advertising, Dining & Retail, Media, Sports & Fitness, Healthcare & Medicine, Education, Design, and Arts & Entertainment? Plan to be at BostInno’s 3rd Annual 50 on Fire event this Thursday evening, December 4th, recognizing Boston’s leading inventors, disruptors, luminaries and gamechangers. Sponsored in…
Just when it seems that Boston’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has reached the top of its game, another grand slam comes along and brings us all to new heights. Last Wednesday evening at the 2014 MassChallenge Awards Ceremony was one of those “grand slam” moments. Having intereacted with a number of the start up finalists this year…
Over 1,000 college students converged on Arizona State University this past weekend with a simple goal: a commitment to make a difference. It was time for the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative University Conference and the students in attendance were from all fifty states and over eighty countries. Babson College students were fortunate to be included…
At Babson, I have 168 hours to work with in any given week. Some weeks, it’s a mix of classes and meetings, but other weeks, like this one, are a little different. This week my 168 sure is “busy,” but I don’t mind it because everything I have planned is something I want…
As the 2013-2014 school year begins to wind down, a lot of exciting things are happening on campus. One of those exciting things is what many like to call “dance season”. In April AMAN, (Babson’s Southeast Asian Group) and BDE (The Babson Dance Ensemble) each put on shows for the entire campus. As a choreographer…
Greek Life at Babson has officially wrapped up its Recruitment for the 2013-2014 school year and its been a great process! Whether a new sister of Chi-Omega or a new brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the new members of the Greek community are already enjoying themselves and getting to know their new family. Greek life…
Many Babson students want to go abroad, but sometimes have the difficult decision of leaving campus for a full semester or entire year. Whether for sports, jobs, internships, social, sports, financial or other reasons, it may be difficult for some students to give up so much time away from campus. Babson offers opportunities to study…
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) was launched in 1999 with a vision and a simple idea — “Startups make the world much better. We can help them by setting up and managing their office for them so they can focus on their business.” (cic.us) Since then, over 1400 companies have launched their ideas in CIC’s…
This January I traveled to Ghana through Babson’s elective abroad program. For two weeks, I stayed in a church with about 50 other Babson students. Each morning my teaching partner and I walked to a nearby school, Methodist Secondary School, to teach entrepreneurship to high school students. Our first day teaching we were greeted by…
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela As we honor and acknowledge Nelson Mendela’s legacy, I reflect on my experience as CCD’s Social Impact…
