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My colleague, Kathy Smith, enjoyed watching me embarrass myself and summed it up nicely in the piece below. Enjoy! Babson’s first Buffoonery in 1992 featured an a cappella group, rock band and skit about a not-so-typical dinner party. If yesterday is any indication, the 25th Anniversary Buffoonery will make the founders of this irreverent MBA…
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” We couldn’t agree more with Robin Sharma! Change came to me first when I, hailing from the south of India, got married to a Kashmiri (Kashmir is the northern tip of India) and then moved to the west of India. I…
This year’s National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) annual conference was held in Stamford, CT. The official theme was Connecting with Confidence, but the message I took away was much more profound than some well-worn networking tips and tricks. Jodi Glickman– author, entrepreneur, and professional coach- spoke at one of the sessions during the first…
Long before the poll results were announced, before our students began to rally behind one another to recover from an election gone wrong, two of our very own were planning an event that would disrupt “business as usual” here on campus – in the best way possible. Flora Ekpe-Idang and Mark Gagliardi, both full-time students…
If you missed Women’s Preview Day last Friday, you missed an exciting event! Participants from around the world gathered together to learn why Babson was just ranked #8 for greatest opportunity for women by The Princeton Review. As we all know, women today are redefining the workplace and themselves. At Babson, you’ll learn how to…
Luxottica is part of just about every Babson graduate student’s wardrobe. The Italian eyewear company is responsible for about 70% of all eyewear brands ranging from high-fashion sunglasses to functional optics. The company’s retail headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the past year, Josh Prickett, Manager of Diversity & Recruitment Outreach at Luxottica North…
Two Babson graduate students, Haotian Wu (M’16) and Satveer Singh (M’16) recently attended the 18th Annual Reaching Out MBA Conference (“ROMBA Conference”) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s event drew over 1400 attendees from the LGBTQ community including students who traveled from as far as the United Kingdom and Australia. Wu and…
Greetings, everyone, from Wellesley, MA, where the snow piles are begining to shrink as the temperature rises. The Admissions Committee did not let a major blizzard deter us from finishing our task (the post office has nothin’ on us.) We met, we deliberated long into the night, and thus, all of you who applied by…
What do students at Babson do when they are not in class? More activities and pursuits than I have space to write about, that is what they do. And the 11th annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Forum is an example of one of those activities. Not only is this Forum a place for student leadership, ideas and initiatives,…
Are you a potential applicant to a Babson MBA program? Have you started an application? Are you in the lucky club of people who actually submitted one already? I have an offer. Come visit Babson this week. We have some amazing events for you to enjoy. On Tuesday, October 23 and Wednesday, October 24, we…
