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The College President who Turned a Football Field into a Farm

I knew Michael Sorrell before I met him.  I’d hear the news, back in 2010, that one extraordinary college president was leading Paul Quinn College to turn its football field into a farm, now called We Over Me Farm. So when Babson President Len Schlesinger popped into Food Sol’s office last November, and told me…

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Cultivating Tribes

We’re in the middle of developing our newest Babson Board Fellows cohort and I’m starting to notice a trend as I meet with MBAs who are interested in joining the program. Whether in one-on-one interviews or group information sessions, when I ask what they’re hoping to get out of this program, most answer the same…

The New Public Policy

By Nate Garvis, Social Innovation Fellow at The Lewis Institute and Founder of Naked Civics, LLC. Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® + Civic Outcome = The New Public Policy No matter where you’re from, chances are you view public policy as the activity of regulating through legislation driven by politics.  And it is.  But that’s not…