By Brianna Radicioni | March 7, 2018
By Donna Kelley, Babson College Professor of Entrepreneurship, Board Member and researcher, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Though still considered a leading European financial and technological hub, Spain was not immune to the 2008 recession and its lasting effects. Entrepreneurship rates declined from 2008-2010, with only a slight uptick thereafter, and societal attitudes about the presence…
By Brianna Radicioni | February 23, 2018
Last year, Babson College expanded to Miami, Florida with three graduate programs—including the Blended Learning MBA, ranked No. 1 for alumni earnings and top 10 worldwide by Financial Times (FT),The Princeton Review, and Entrepreneur magazine. The expansion builds on the ongoing success of Babson’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® Miami, and Babson’s growing, powerful network of 5,000 alumni…
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 | October 7, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean has made the headlines several times in 2016 for the meteoric rise of many of its entrepreneurs. Now a new regional report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) shows that at the heart of this growth is an even more rapidly growing sub-sector of businesspersons: the region’s women. The latest…
By Michael Chmura | January 19, 2012
Professor Donna Kelley discusses the results of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2011 report on entrepreneurship worldwide in this talking powerpoint presentation.
By Michael Chmura | January 6, 2012
Professor Donna Kelley discusses the findings of Global Entrepreneruship Monitor 2010 Women report. The number of women entrepreneurs worldwide is about equal to the population of Brazil.
By Michael Chmura | February 20, 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to visit the US State Department in Washington, D. C. with two of my entrepreneurship colleagues, Prof. Donna Kelley and Prof. Abdul Ali. Donna made a presentation about the findings of the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Research Project. GEM is a 59 country study of more than 175,000…
By Barbara Blair | January 14, 2010
The release of the GEM 2009 report was much anticipated. The 2008 data was collected in the early summer of that year, before the recession started to dominate the front pages of newspapers across the globe. The 2008 data didn’t show declines in entrepreneurial activity in general across the dataset of 43 countries, although fewer…
By Michael Chmura | November 13, 2009
GEM measured social entrepreneurship by asking entrepreneurs if they are pursuing economic goals, social goals, or both. There were three important findings that give us a glimpse into the future of business. First, 44% of entrepreneurs are pursuing economic and social goals concurrently and this number doubles last year’s finding. As a result, we find…
By Michael Chmura | November 13, 2009
Previous GEM reports have noted that public policies toward entrepreneurship in high-income countries have several major goals: maintaining competitiveness sustaining innovation rates, and encouraging the availability of sufficient early stage funding Highlights of the GEM study which particularly pertain to public policy include the following observations: The impact of the recession and the financial crisis…