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Well, it’s that time of the year when people take a weekend off to eat good turkey and shop like crazy! But on a more serious note, I just realized that I have so much to be grateful for at Babson and what better time to give thanks than at Thanksgiving? Hence, I am thankful……
Recently, I participated in the 2012 Rocket Pitch at Babson College and although I witnessed many good presentations, some could have been better. This is because while many know the basics of pitching, few pitch convincingly. But it’s not a big deal at all and the following five pointers should help you rock the pitch!…
As a proud member of the inaugural team of social media ambassadors here at Babson, I wanted to take a minute to welcome to my blog! Over the course of the next two years, my goal is to bring my loyal devoted willing readers a small slice of my life here at Babson in terms of academics (the good…
Every fall, Babson holds a meticulously coordinated rocket pitch event, where students get to pitch their businesses in 3 minutes or less to a constantly rotating audience that moves from room to room and pitch to pitch. It’s an iconic event that has become a staple at Babson. But why should current students have all…
Eighteen years in a row! Proud of this. Link to US News Ranking. I was in San Francisco on a personal visit for spring break last week. I met Eric Bahn, the founder of Beat the GMAT and we had a blast hanging out! I also attended the Cleantech Forum where I met Babson Provost Shahid Ansari…
As was recently announced, Babson has partnered with MassChallenge to provide its MBA students with hatchery space for their startups. As a student entrepreneur and participant in this program, I was asked to comment on my thoughts and experiences at MassChallenge so far at the March 3 event at the MassChallenge office. My perspective on…
Two weeks before I started at Babson, I had a long conversation with my mom about whether or not entrepreneurship could be taught. There was a great deal of back-and-forth, but all we came up with was, whether or not you can teach entrepreneurship, you can at least sell entrepreneurship education. When I arrived, starry-eyed…
I was offered a summer internship position with the EDF Climate Corps last Wednesday. The Climate Corps fellows bring to the table a combination of prior experiences in consulting, financial analysis and engineering skills that are used to identify potential emissions and energy savings for partner companies. Through the Climate Corps program, I will work…
I now understand and appreciate why marketers and product development people get more valuable with age. That’s because first hand experience in these fields is truly invaluable, and that’s because reality, as witnessed by such experience, is much different from logical conjecture, schoolbook material and what you intuitively think should happen. This is some stuff…
It was one of those days that you’re just not sure how to classify. On one hand, it’s excruciatingly tiring. You’re up at 7. You spend 7 hours on the road. You feed an unreasonable amount of quarters to perpetually expiring meters. You have 20 emails in your inbox that you can tell, by looking…
