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Student Profile: Praewa “Pear” Natha Nararujaneetanan, MBA ‘19

Before coming to Babson, Pear worked as a business strategy planner at the Mae Fah Luang Foundation (MFLF), one of leading non-profit organization in Thailand and was a co-founder/designer of Lyra Brand, a clothing line currently in its fifth year of operation. She feels lucky to have met people from all walks of life through…

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Diversity Preview Day: The Babson Experience

  Prospective graduate students spent an exciting day with members of the Babson community at our recent Diversity Preview Day, discovering what the Babson experience could mean for them! In their welcome remarks, President Kerry Healey and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sadie Burton-Goss highlighted the College’s approach to learning that strives to ensure a…

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Babson Rocket Pitch : A Student Presenter Perspective

Curious about Babson’s Rocket Pitch? Read about Francesca Gibb’s experience here! When I came to Babson, I knew that the program was renowned for entrepreneurship, but I didn’t come to campus with a plan to start something new.  That all changed during the course of my Entrepreneurship and Opportunity (E&O) class with Professor Heidi Neck.…

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MCFE Team Leads Sallie Mae Design Thinking Hackathon

One class offered to students in the MBA programs at Babson is Managing the Consulting Experience. This class allows individuals to manage and lead a team of undergraduate students on a consulting project, gaining real-world project management experience. Read about an event initiative organized by Marc Antunes ’18, who is currently leading the team working…

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Babson Students Attend UN Sustainable Development Goals Case Challenge

Are you wondering if your passion for social impact and sustainability will fit within a business school education? Do you want to know if there are opportunities to networking and interacting with MBA students at different business schools around Boston? Are you curious how Babson’s Entrepreneurial Thought & Action applies to real world issues? Read…

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Prototype Presentations – Babson MBAs Test Their Business Ideas

As they make their way through their first term at Babson, the first year MBA students at Babson were tasked with creating and prototyping a viable business idea, combining their skills learned in each of their Mod 1 classes. The students gathered in Knight Auditorium to share their creations and test each other’s prototypes. See…

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Ring founder and Chief Inventor Jamie Siminoff at Babson San Francisco

On Tuesday May 2, a large group of students, alumni, and friends of Babson College convened at our San Francisco location for a very special event: Babson Connect. This year’s special guest at connect was 1999 undergraduate alumnus Jamie Siminoff, founder and Chief Inventor of Ring. Jamie spoke with Babson’s Carol Hacker—who has known him…

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A Return to Babson – Meet the New Director of Admissions Jeff Carbone

I first met Jeff Carbone in Accra Ghana during an graduate business school recruiting trip, which my then company was organizing. I still remember the first time I encountered him in person. It was about 8:30am in the lobby of our hotel before a day of sight-seeing and his opening greeting was a very assuming…

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A Lesson From Babson’s First TEDx Event

On Saturday, April 22 a group of enterprising Babson students hosted the first ever Babson TEDx event. Conceived and organized by a group of MSEL students, the event was a huge success, attended by an audience of 70-100 people who arrived early and stayed until the finish. Titled “Disruption 360,” the event included a fascinating…