Babson’s Management Consulting Field Experience (aka “MCFE”) and the Babson Consulting Alliance Program (aka “BCAP”) offer our students opportunities to gain practical industry experience while working with professionals in the business community. Our MCFE and BCAP programs connect Boston-area organizations with talented Babson undergraduate and graduate students who work as consultants to address a current…
Professor Shahid Ansari, CEO of Babson Global, delivered the keynote at International Congress on Education, Innovation and Learning Technologies in Barcelona on July 16,, 2014. Prof. Ansari spoke on “Growing Entrepreneurs: The Babson Way.” Palau de Congressos de Catalunya will host the I Catalunya Emprèn Congress, a meeting point for thousands of entrepreneurs seeking financing, businesspeople looking…
I love it when all my hats fit at the same time. Thursday night’s Small Business Week reception at the Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. was a smash hit from the entrepreneurship perspective. With hats of Babson faculty member, Academic Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, and a federally appointment member of the SBA’s advisory board for the SBDC programs, this night just really worked. From…
What do the Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Summit, Zappos, and Babson College have in common: A shared mission of building entrepreneurial cultures. I was honored and excited to again attend the annual Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Summit, this time held at Dove Mountain in Tuscon. For this event GS gathers up 100 entrepreneurs (both…
Megan Way, Kent Jones, and Lidija Polutnik, Professors at Babson College Malala Yousafzai has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, based on her personal courage in response to her attempted assassination and her devotion to the cause of education for young girls and women around the world. These factors alone make a good case…
By: Marty Anderson The following was published in the Providence Journal in December 2009. It asserted that the problem with the pending health care law (now the ACA) was not its “universal coverage” mandate, but that it was proposing an extraordinarily complex central administrative structure that was beyond human capability to manage. In recent months…
Will Apple follow Microsoft and Nokia, or a new different drummer? By: Marty Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Management About a year ago, I wrote a blog piece that argued Apple’s Mountain Lion exhibited a “command” structure that was heavily based upon the social network patterns of American teenagers, and that it could easily be a…
The following faculty members recently retired with a combined 185 years of service to Babson. Join us in thanking them for all of their hard work and dedication by sharing your favorite memories of them or by wishing them well in the comments section of this post. Henry N. Deneault, Lecturer, Management Jean-Pierre Jeannet, Professor,…
This post originally appeared on Babson Insight. By Heidi Neck All people can learn to think and act entrepreneurially and do so in various contexts. However, our current definitions of entrepreneurship are fostered by an ongoing rhetoric. Today’s narrative mythologizes super heroes—entrepreneurs who are born, not made; geniuses with the brilliant idea working alone in…
By: Janice Yellin, Professor of Art History I was very pleased to learn that Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile was named best book in the Archaeology and Anthropology category by the 37th Annual American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)! Since I wrote many essays for the book, the award is…
