Tag: Ken Accardi

Teaching Entrepreneurs to Embrace Their Inner Geek

By The Institute for Social Innovation | February 8, 2019

by Ken Accardi MBA’05, healthcare tech entrepreneur & Babson adjunct instructor   When teaching how to transform businesses with digital technology, one of the first things I tell students is that I was raised as a Geek and not as a business person, but that it’s important for them to become Geeks as part of…

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Babson Sophomores Participate In Design Hackathon

By Michael Chmura | February 26, 2017

More than 250 Babson undergraduate students — approximately one-half the sophomore class — participated in a design hackathon on February 24, 2017 on the Wellesley campus. While a typical hackathon involves the coding of a minimally viable product, this event focused on the user experience (UX) and the user interface (UI) of a mobile application.…

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Babson Research Featured At Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium

By Michael Chmura | October 12, 2016

Adjunct faculty member Ken Accardi MBA’05 describes himself as being transformed by his Babson education.  His early career was at GE Healthcare where he led global software development for their X-Ray product line.  He then became Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the service division that doubled in size to $4B during his tenure. Since Babson,…

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