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Good Business Friday Tomorrow with Phil Mirvis

Tomorrow is the first Good Business Friday of the semester! Students have returned from winter break, there’s a great buzz on campus and I’m thrilled that Cheryl’s back to be part of these conversations. What better way to kick off the series than to have Phil Mirvis, Babson Senior Fellow in Social Innovation be part…

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This Friday: Is a Good Business a Successful Business?

Though it feels like we were getting ready for From Day One just yesterday, this Friday we’re hosting the last Good Business Friday of 2013. This is always an exciting time with FME businesses starting to take shape and students all over campus working on their ventures. So it seems only fitting that we would…

Macy Horton – Good Business Defined

By Macy Horton, Babson Undergraduate Student and Founder of Rock Dust Soil Solutions. This post is the last in a 4 part series building on the conversations at Good Business Fridays by providing a platform for Babson Undergraduate students to reflect on what “Good Business” means or has come to mean to them. The more…

Michael Kliska – Good Business Defined

By Michael Kliska, Babson Undergraduate student. This post is the first in a 4 part series building on the conversations at Good Business Fridays by providing a platform for Babson Undergraduate students to reflect on what “Good Business” means or has come to mean to them. Good business…what does that mean? Is it being ethical?…

What is Different About Creating a Different Business?

By Jennifer-Trisha Kuhanga, Babson Undergraduate Student and Intern at The Lewis Institute. Leading up to Seth Goldman’s (cofounder of Honest Tea) fireside chat with Heidi Heck we gave out free copies of his book “Mission in a Bottle” at Good Business Fridays (GBF). According to the founders of Honest Tea, this book is “the honest…

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Good Business Fridays: Cultivating Social Innovation

Tomorrow marks our second Good Business Friday of the school year. These weekly conversations are a way to accelerate your journey around social value creation and amplify your impact in the space.  There’s something very special and almost counter-intuitive about the model. So much of our work at Babson is about purposeful, strategic action, It’s…

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From Day One: Make a Difference

This is such an exciting time to be on campus, and reinforces why I love my job. Full time MBA orientation started earlier this week, and first year undergraduates arrive today. Consistently, I’ve been meeting students who tell me about their passions, interests, and desire to make lasting positive change. At Babson, we work to…