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As part of Emily and Cheryl’s Leading for Social Value course last spring, students were asked to write closing blogs with reflections from the seven weeks of the course. This post from Calliope Desenberg, MBA’18 is the fourth in this series of posts we’ll be sharing periodically. Moving from a philanthropy focused corporate social responsibility…
I am grateful to be part of the Barton Road After School Program. While not every day at Barton is a walk in the park, participating in the program has given me great joy and has been very insightful. Over the year at Barton, we have done tons and tons of different activities. We have…
Joining Cradles to Crayons has been the one of the most eye opening and influential experience I have had at Babson College. For those that do not know what Cradles is, Cradles to Crayons is a distribution center in Brighton that supplies care packages to low income families and those in need. Cradles gives out…
This post is the second in a series sharing the story about the creation of the first annual Haiti Tech Summit. Read the first post, Babson Community at First Annual Tech Summit, here. By Shaina Silva ‘08, Haiti Tech Summit Organizer. I graduated from Babson in 2008 and have since focused my entrepreneurship and global…
By Ken Freitas MBA’87, Principal at Freitas & Associates, Executive in Residence at Babson College, and Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at The Lewis Institute. The memo was written by Jeff Swartz, CEO of the Timberland Company and my boss at the time. It was to me and the team working to launch a new…
As part of Emily and Cheryl’s Leading for Social Value course this spring, students were asked to write closing blogs with reflections from the seven weeks of the course. This post from Andrew Franks, MBA’17 is the third in this series of posts we’ll be sharing periodically. One of the observations that has consistently surprised…
It was my absolute privilege and pleasure to have been part of Needham ELP which was designed to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of high school students within the Needham area. However, the experience went deeper than that and we were able to cultivate effective relationships with the students. We got to know and interact with…
Every high school student is poised at a crossroad of possibilities. How can we, as educators, equip today’s youth with the confidence to define their sense of purpose and launch into their future trajectory in this ever-changing global climate? Working with more than 1,000 high school students who have experienced the transformative influence of our…
By Prabha Dublish ’18, Co-Founder of Womentum. “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” – Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. As a college student who founded a tech nonprofit, this quote really resonates with me. Throughout my time at Babson, I’ve heard from many people…
The smiles on their faces, their open arms when you walk in, and their curiosity always brings me back to the kids. I have been working in the CAP program for four years now and it has been a great experience. This year, I am part of the Pusan Road after School program. I am…
