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Law, Strategy, Sustainability, Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from Experiential Learning

A customizable experiential learning project allowed students to either (1) interview a professional of their choice or (2) partner with founders in MIT Enterprise Forum CEE to learn how legal astuteness can make-or-break an organization. The project was an opportunity to take ownership of their learning, pursue a passion, network, and take a deeper dive…

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MIT Enterprise Forum CEE Learning Partnership: Babson Student Take-Aways

Babson MBA and undergraduate students recently partnered with top foreign start-ups in the MIT Enterprise Forum (EF) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to explore issues in US market entry strategy. These issues related to law, and included questions discussed with entrepreneurs throughout the course: business formation and strategy, intellectual property (IP), contracts, liability, human resources…

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Grand Finale: 4 Entrepreneurs’ Lessons on Law, as Summed-Up by Students

Our talk with four entrepreneurial leaders: Amelia Adams, Allison (Abrams) Yee, Asheen Phansey, and Bianca Jordan (all alumni, and/or otherwise associated with Babson) provided a great wrap-up to our course on legal astuteness with regard to business formation and strategy, IP, contracts, torts, and HR. Their profiles, full titles, and connections to Babson are as…

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3 Entrepreneurs = 10 Big Student Take-Aways on Law & Innovation in Human Resources

Danielle Goldman of Open Avenues, Brandale Randolph of 1854 Cycling, and Kevin Loos of CrowdComfort recently spoke on the value of legal astuteness with students, shared emotionally resonant backstories that explain their drive, and highlighted resources in our local start-up ecosystem, including the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL) at Babson, Greentown Labs, and Mass…

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15 Student Take-Aways: Startup Liabilities & Diversity at the 2nd Largest Custodial Bank on the Planet

Jason Cipriano has been an entrepreneur, naval officer, supply chain executive at a robotics start-up, and now oversees diversity and inclusion in the supply chain of State Street. As one might guess, students found his real-life examples related to tort liability (after classes on business formation, IP, and contracting) to be fascinating. With light edits,…

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15 Student Take-Aways on Contracts (and More) From 2 Very Different Start-Up Stories

What can we learn by comparing the experiences of: Eagle Wu, whose startup, Vinvi VR, contracts with the Defense Department and Karim El-Gamal, who started Rail Trail Flatbread and New City Microcreamery with fellow Babson alumnus Michael Kasseris? Students previously noted take-aways related to law, strategy, and entrepreneurship based on the conversation with our first…

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2 Entrepreneurs = 30 Student Take-Aways on Law, Strategy, and Success

A pioneering astrophysicist with a medtech start-up. A co-founder of an industrial waste consultancy with all of the Fortune 100 manufacturers as clients. Anna Banacka (founder, MindMics) and Jake Vaillancourt (co-founder, WasteHub and 10X) visited our course on law for working professionals earning their MBA. Below are highlights of take-aways from us (as a class)…

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Roger Babson’s Founding Principles: Still Sustaining into a Second Century

Happy 100th birthday, Babson College! In a 1930 issue of The New Yorker magazine, Henry F. Pringle profiled Roger Babson and explained his motivations for founding Babson College, which the author described as the entrepreneur’s “greatest enthusiasm” – on par, the author suggested, to having a child. The following are highlights of Pringle’s profile of Babson, prepared…

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