By Michael Chmura | January 16, 2018
Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Candida Brush has received the Max S. Wortman, Jr. / USASBE Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship. “It is an incredible honor to receive the Max S. Wortman Jr. USASBE Lifetime achievement award,” said Brush. “It means a lot to be recognized for an award named for someone who cared…
By Brianna Radicioni | November 16, 2017
Babson College Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division, Andrew Corbett, has now also been named the Paul T. Babson Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies. The Professorship honors the memory of Roger Babson’s cousin, Paul Babson, who was a graduate of the University of Nebraska, lived in Boston, and was a trustee and loyal benefactor of the College.…
By Michael Chmura | November 14, 2017
Here’s what Law Professor Toni Lester has to say about the current scandal: “While everyday workers are subjected to anti-sexual harassment laws that allow employers to penalize them for inappropriate work place conduct, recent scandals concerning high powered celebrities like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey might make you wonder if these men are immune to…
By Michael Chmura | October 30, 2017
The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship is working with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to offer a free event for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship professors, USASBE Local. The event will be held on November 2 at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in the Entrepreneurship Center. Heidi Neck, President of USASBE and the…
By Digital Experience Initiative (dXi) | October 28, 2017
Post by Bincy Paul, MBA candidate, with Prof. Ruben Mancha Technology is evolving towards us. Our devices, which used to operate with simple on/off switches, can now feel our touch, listen to us, talk to us, and even recognize us. As a manager or entrepreneur, you should acknowledge this evolution and design your products to…
By Michael Chmura | October 22, 2017
Babson Professor Frederick Douglass Opie will be featured at a book event and signing, October 23, 2017, at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. About Professor Opie From home cooks and professional chefs to local eateries and bakeries, food has helped activists continue marching for change for…
By Michael Chmura | October 18, 2017
The 2017 Diana International Conference took place October 1-3, 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Papers accepted for the 2017 conference built on this year’s conference theme: Programs, Policies & Practices Around High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship. Those topics were explored by researchers from around the world using a variety of gender…
By Shannon Sweeny | October 11, 2017
Allan Cohen, Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership, Babson College and David Bradford, Senior Lecturer on Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business It is hard enough to manage or influence people who are geographically separate, but much more difficult when they come from cultures with different norms about openness, interaction, making relationships, dealing…
By Michael Chmura | September 24, 2017
MarketingEDGE has presented Best Paper Award to a publication coauthored by Professor Dhruv Grewal. Mobile Advertising: A Framework and Research Agenda received the award for a paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2016. Co-authors are Northeastern Professor Yakov Bart, Munich School of Management Professor Martin Spann, and Tel Aviv University Professor Peter Pal Zubcsek. They…
By Michael Chmura | September 24, 2017
Vice Provost of Entrepreneurial Leadership Candy Brush has coauthored “Angel Investing: A Literature Review“, Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship: Vol. 13: No. 4-5, pp 265-439 with Bentley Professor Linda F. Edelman and Bentley Professor Tatiana S. Manolova. ABSTRACT: “Even though scholars have amassed a large body of research on angel investors, few systematic and comprehensive reviews…