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DropZone For Veterans founder Courtney Wilson MBA’17 will be among the student entrepreneurs from 12 of Massachusetts’ top public and private colleges and universities that will go head-to-head on Wednesday, September 28th at Hatch Fenway for the fourth annual Beantown Throwdown pitch competition. DropZone is a mobile app that connects veterans with non-government resources, programs and benefits, all…
InnerCity Weightlifting, founded by Jon Feinman MBA’10, is among the three 2016 winners of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sports Award. The winners will receive a $7,500 cash award and will be honored at a September 28, 2016 ceremony at the RWJF headquarters in Princeton, N.J. The three recipients have been awarded this honor…
Ian So ’08, co-founder of The Chicken & Rice Guys, is among the new Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 honorees. According to BBJ: “This year’s Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 honorees are all young and extremely talented professionals. As a group, they represent a wide variety of business industries in the for-profit, nonprofit…
Kyle Cherrick MBA ’16 and Jeff Rodgers MBA ’16, Blended Learning students at the Babson San Francisco campus, met at orientation. They were assigned to the same working group for the first set of courses of their MBA program. From there, Solar Merchant, later to be known as Pick My Solar was born. Solar Merchant…
Abby Fabiaschi ’02 is looking forward to the January publication of her new novel, I Liked My Life (St. Martin’s Press; January 31, 2017; hardcover), a poignant and fresh look at the fraught sacrifices of motherhood and the nuances of mourning between a hormonal teen and a powerful alpha male father. Written with the domestic…
Recent alumna Isabella Soto-Rivera MBA’16 is a firm believer that if you live in a space you love, it can transform your mood, and life, for the better. She also knows how hard it can be to get just the right look and feel, all while staying on budget. With this in mind, Isabella created Dkora…
Jamie Steenbakkers ’18 and Michael Leahy ’18 are the founders of Busy Beauty, a personal care and beauty company that helps women get ready and look better, faster. Their first product is a Showerless ShaveTM gel that helps women feel clean and look shaved whether they are travelling, in a rush, or not in the…
True Fit, footwear and apparel’s discovery platform, announced a $25 million Series B financing from Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, and Intel Capital. The new funding brings total investment in True Fit to $40 million and it will be used to serve rising demand and growth, as well as to drive continued innovation for retailers…
When most kids were playing with legos Sam Sternweiler ’17 was collecting precious stones. Sternweiler, a 21 year old Entrepreneurship student at Babson, is the founder and CEO of JEWELv an online fine jewelry customization platform that allows customers to personalize and create their own unique jewelry all in real-time 3D. Their mission is to…
Babson graduate business, Clubes de Ciencias, is a non profit organization that is selecting the brightest Latin American PhD candidates from United States universities and bringing them to their home countries to teach STEM workshops. They are currently working in Mexico, Bolivia, and Colombia. Babson graduate students and the leaders of Clubes de Ciencias, Luis Ortiz MBA…
