By Brian Hickey | March 7, 2013
While the first year student-run Foundations of Management of Entrepreneurship businesses at Babson College are operating in full swing, they recently took a break from the business side of things to compete in the annual FME Dodgeball Tournament. About a dozen teams competed in the tournament hosted by the Class of 2016 Steering Committee and…
By Hannah Moriggi | March 4, 2013
Creative. Innovative. Practical. These are the first words that come to my mind when I think about Babson’s approach to a specialized business education. There are countless factors that contribute to making Babson’s education dynamic, while also focusing on the development of skills which envelop and transcend business so that students have multidimensional abilities, and…
By Meghan Rowledge | February 9, 2013
So as many of you know, a huge part of being a Babson First Year is the FME program. In November I was put in the company of A Taste of Wellesley, and we were lucky enough to make it through as one of the final two companies for my class. A week after this,…
By Brian Hickey | January 31, 2013
What school would be crazy enough to give a group of nearly thirty students $3,000 and tell them to go start their own business—from start to finish—on their own, making their own decisions. Welcome to Babson College. I am currently working as the VP of Corporate Social Responsibility at MixItMug, a real-life, operational business, run…
By Leandra Grinage | January 26, 2013
Hello, My second semester has begun! I have a new set of professors and classes. So far, I have a feeling that I will have an interesting and productive semester. I have to say I am very excited to start selling my FME product. My FME business is a device that automatically rolls up headphone wires to prevent tangle. As…
By Brian Hickey | November 30, 2012
One of the things that draws prospective students to Babson is the Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurs course (FME), in which first year students actually run their own business. Now that I am nearing the completion of my first semester at Babson, I can tell you this truly is the real deal! So far, we…
By Hannah Moriggi | October 26, 2012
The 21st century is all about the here, the now and the new. We are always thinking about tomorrow, often before today is even over. Take Babson’s Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) for example. In this 7-credit, yearlong immersion course in business, students create a company, choose a target market and sell their product.…
By Conor O'Brien | April 25, 2012
It’s been an event-filled few weeks for the Class of 2015 Steering Committee! On April 3rd, the Annual “FME Dodgeball” competition was held. In an exciting best-of-three series, SOS Stamp Out Suicide defeated Critter Caps 2-1. After the competition, the champions took on members of the Class of 2015 Steering Committee, including advisors Dan Kwash…
By Rob Major | March 1, 2012
We’re almost halfway through the Spring 2012 semester and the FME busiensses are in full swing! The annual FME fair that occurred on February 14, 2012 was a great success. Pictures of the event can be viewed here. Companies like LazerWear Apparel, H2Go, Stamp Out Suicide as well as many others were advertising their products to…
By Rob Major | March 15, 2010
The Spring semester at Babson college has a remarkably different rhythm than the Fall semester. The fall semester begins with a burst of energy with all the excitement of kicking off a new academic year. In addition, the fall semester does not have break until deep into the semester at Thanksgiving. So there is a…