By Shannon Sweeny | February 13, 2018
Pichon Duplan ’10 is the co-founder of Fast Forward, a social impact organization to help students accelerate their careers. Duplan and his co-founder Tucker Matheson founded the organization in November 2016, while they were working as management consultants at a global professional services firm. The Idea “The idea for Fast Forward originally came from our…
By Shannon Sweeny | February 6, 2018
Tom Meyers, Director of Marketing for Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, was looking to expand his outreach to younger patrons. The mountain was hoping to tap into the 18-24 market and he thought the best way to do that would be to reach out to, “one of the leading marketing programs in the state,” Babson College…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 30, 2018
What is your venture and who are its founders? Sedition is a 90-minute bi-lingual action-thriller film set in the remote regions of the Himalayan Mountains. Sedition is the first feature film to structure itself as a for-profit social business with 50% of profits being pledged to a nature conservancy fund (The World Land Trust) to preserve forest lands…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 23, 2018
Hetansh Desai MSEL ’16 is the founder of Vital20 Communications based in India. What is Vital20 Communications and who are its founders? Vital20 Communications is a marketing company that helps businesses win customers in the first three seconds. You & I are exposed to 5000 ads a day and only about 100 succeed in making…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 17, 2018
Today, Babson joins sixteen additional top universities showcasing their commitment to clarifying the cost of college by implementing MyinTuition, a revolutionary online tool that quickly and easily provides accurate college cost estimates. Prospective students will now be able to easily estimate costs to attend Babson College, Boston College, Brown University, Colby College, Davidson College, Duke…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 4, 2018
David Zamarin ’20, founder of DetraPel, appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank on Sunday January 7, 2018 at 10:00 pm. Zamarin struck a deal with Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner for $200,000 for 25% of DetraPel. DetraPel DetraPel is a nanotechnology protective coatings company. DetraPel provides an array of products that are clear, protective and durable…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 3, 2018
College Magazine ranked Babson College No. 1 school for women entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Babson tops the list of 10 schools, “from high admittance of women into business schools to clubs galore, these schools encourage aspiring women entrepreneurs to conquer the world.” The list includes neighboring colleges MIT and Smith College. College…
By Shannon Sweeny | January 2, 2018
Babson College is continuing to expand its free edX course offerings with a unique course in evolving corporate social responsibility to corporate social innovation. Based on real-world experiences from business leaders, this class will allow you to learn how to develop and lead social innovation initiatives that create both economic and social value. The class…
By Shannon Sweeny | December 15, 2017
December 7, 2017 (Wellesley, MA) – A number of schools and colleges in Wellesley and the Metro-West area will donate an estimated 20,000 meals this year to an organization in Cambridge that takes wholesome, edible surplus and leftover food and passes it on to people in need. Wellesley’s 3R Working Group – which consists of…
By Shannon Sweeny | December 11, 2017
Katherine ReQua MBA ’17 and Kaity Cimo are the co-founders of For Now and retail incubator in Boston’s Seaport District built with both brand and the customer in mind. For Now has partnered with Babson Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® to bring four WINners into the For Now space for the holiday season. For Now…