By Colleen Hynes | May 25, 2018
My colleague Johanna Beers, who recruits primarily for our Two-Year MBA program, shared the following thoughts as she prepares to welcome the incoming classes at Babson! May is a time of transition for every college. Even as we celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2018 last Saturday, including two graduates who were named to…
By Colleen Hynes | September 22, 2017
This September, admitted Blended Learning students joined Phil Kim, Blended Learning Faculty Director, Dennis Ceru, Faculty Co-Director of Experiential Learning, and members of Babson’s Experiential Learning office to experience ET&A Live!, a WebEx-enabled student experience where future classmates could practice working together in a simulated online class environment. ET&A is Babson’s unique methodology, Entrepreneurial Thought…
By jcarbone | March 24, 2017
My colleague, Kathy Smith, who plans many of our events on campus and around the globe, reports back on Dean Lamb’s recent events below. En route to this weekend’s Babson Connect Worldwide 2017 in Bangkok, Will Lamb, Dean of the F.W. Olin School of Business, stopped for a few dinners. He wasn’t just sampling the delicious…
By Jenene Romanucci | January 30, 2017
If you’ve had the opportunity to talk with members of the Babson community, chances are that you have heard about the wonderfully diverse community that we are. We often say that Babson is a living and learning laboratory shaping today’s educators and tomorrow’s entrepreneurial leaders around the world. Part of our mission is to ensure a…
By Petia Whitmore | December 16, 2015
This is a big week for all Round 1 applicants – we will be releasing admissions decisions at midnight tomorrow (Eastern Standard Time), Thursday, December 17! The Round 1 pool of candidates was exceptionally qualified this year and the admissions committee spent a remarkable number of hours discussing each applicant and his or her fit…
By Barbara Selmo | March 6, 2013
Greetings from Babson, where we recently celebrated not that we are the #1 school for entrepreneurship, but that we are the ONLY school for e-ship. I’ll save the picture for the end of my post, but let me say that Olin Hall witnessed an outpouring of school spirit, Babson green t-shirts, the Babson Beaver mascot,…
By Barbara Selmo | March 28, 2012
Commitment. That is what every MBA admissions office wants at this time of year. Your commitment. It’s not like we’ve been casually dating, but let’s face it, we have been building a relationship, right? We first met at Kaplan Road to Business School event, or at a Forté Foundation fair, or here on the Wellesley,…
By Barbara Selmo | February 22, 2012
Welcome to Welcome Day! Many of you who have recently received notice that you have been admitted to Babson (congrats!) have also received an invitation to our New Student Welcome Day on February 29. Candidates sometimes call us confused about what to expect at Welcome Day, who to expect, and whether it is mandatory to…