By Brianna Radicioni | December 8, 2016
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently ranked Babson Professor Joel Shulman’s EntrepreneurShares Large Cap Growth Fund No. 5 among 698 similar funds on a YTD basis. The December 2 WSJ’s Category Kings shows that EntrepreneurShares’ Large Cap Growth Fund generated 8.13 percent net performance (after fees) compared to 1.34 percent for the category average. This accomplishment follows…
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By Shannon Sweeny | October 31, 2016
Babson Associate Professor of Management Wendy Murphy was the keynote speaker at the 9th Annual Mentoring Conference, Developmental Networks: The Power of Mentoring and Coaching in Albuquerque, New Mexico October 24-28, 2016. Each year, the Mentoring Institute hosts its Annual Mentoring Conference. Featuring four keynote/plenary sessions and over 300 presentations total, the 2015 conference attracted…
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By Michael Chmura | October 31, 2016
Babson College hosted the inaugural STEP Project for Family Enterprise Global Academic Conference at its new Boston campus location on October 13-15, 2016. Fifty-five STEP scholars from 35 outstanding academic institutions representing 29 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico,…
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By Kerry Healey | October 28, 2016
On October 26, I had the opportunity to address an incredible group of women at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. We had a robust discussion about women, work-life balance, multi-generational work environments, and the evolving definition of success in our careers and our lives. I hope that this conversation serves as a starting point…
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By Shannon Sweeny | October 18, 2016
Babson Associate Finance Professor Laurie Krigman and co-author Wendy Jeffus recently published a paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance, entitled IPO Pricing as a Function of your Investment Banks’ Past Mistakes: The Case of Facebook. On May 18, 2012 Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO), raising over $16 billion. It became one of…
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By Michael Chmura | October 7, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean has made the headlines several times in 2016 for the meteoric rise of many of its entrepreneurs. Now a new regional report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) shows that at the heart of this growth is an even more rapidly growing sub-sector of businesspersons: the region’s women. The latest…
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By Michael Chmura | September 1, 2016
“Gold medalist Ryan Lochte has some interesting challenges ahead of him in the coming months,” says Babson Arts and Entertainment Law Professor Toni Lester. Lochte was accused of lying to Brazilian authorities about being assaulted at a gas station while in Rio for the games this summer. As a result, companies like Speedo and Ralph…
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By Michael Chmura | August 31, 2016
Babson will host the first Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Global Academic Conference, October 13-15, 2016, which will include a multitude of opportunities for STEP colleagues to work collaboratively, providing rigorous and valuable insights into STEP research and issues associated with transgenerational entrepreneurship. The event will take place at Babson’s new 100 High Street campus…
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By Michael Chmura | August 31, 2016
This Founder’s Day, with just three years to go before Babson College’s Centennial, it is appropriate to consider Roger Babson’s convictions and motivations for founding our school, as summarized in a profile published in a 1930 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Short version: (1) the Seer of Wellesley Hills likely would have endorsed our…
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By Michael Chmura | August 29, 2016
Six out of seven members of the Babson law faculty and one of their students received collectively an unprecedented eight awards this spring and summer. The “award-fest” started this spring when Professor Toni Lester received a Babson Faculty Scholar award to support her research. Senior Lecturer Cheryl Kirschner received a Lewis Institute Change-maker Award for…
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