Each year Bloomberg Businessweek publishes its “Top 25 Under 25”, a who’s who of the young entrepreneurs. Consistently Babson undergraduates have placed on the list; and this year is no exception. This year, four Babson students and alumni within three businesses represent Babson on the list: Fan Bi of Blank Label, Sebastian Abondano of My [...]

Sick of refreshing the registration page while waiting to see if a spot opened in a choice class, Senior John Gesimondo got the idea to find an alternative. At the time, John generated a script that would continuously keep checking the registrar’s website. As long as his computer was left running, any changes in selected [...]

In the coming weeks and months the class of 2015 shall embark upon their FME, Foundation of Management and Entrepreneurship, experience just as the previous year’s story concludes. The 2010 – 2011 fiscal year has a record of twenty businesses, two more than the previous year. Nineteen of these businesses followed the traditional model of [...]

The E-Tower (Entrepreneurship Tower) is home to 21 students who both live and work together to headline Babson’s entrepreneurial community. Just recently, five freshmen were accepted into the Tower for the coming fall semester. The E-Tower students’ tag line is: “Entrepreneurship represents the human spirit unleashed,” with a summary that “[their] members start and grow [...]

As with most presentations at Babson, Raj Patel’s talk on his New York Times Bestseller book, ‘The Value of Nothing’, starts ten minutes late. The theater is packed, most of us attending this talk for one class or another. Patel looks sharp, well-dressed in an impeccably wrapped scarf that compliments the Sorenson’s green curtains. Taking [...]

Entrepreneurs spend countless hours on ideation, networking, raising capital, and recruiting team members. The start-up phase is a fast-paced and exciting time, but after all those elements have been put together, one has to beg the question, now what? On February 9, the Babson Association of Women MBAs held an event to help answer that [...]

If it looks like a fraud, smells like a fraud, and acts like a fraud, then it’s probably a fraud. That’s what Frank Casey and Harry Markopolous reasoned almost instantaneously more than 10 years ago when they learned Bernard Madoff Securities was claiming to earn 1% monthly (12% annually) with almost no volatility. Within a [...]

So it’s spring semester. For every freshmen, faculty, and parent who will be forced to be loyal customers, this means one thing: FME! This entrepreneurial program is designed to prepare freshmen students for business ventures by exposing the entrepreneurs to a realistic setting that reflects similar endeavors that they will eventually encounter in the future [...]

Babson College. #1 in Entrepreneurship year after year. We hear this all the time. Whether it’s from President Schlesinger or Dean Hanno, we are aware and proud of these statistics. But let me challenge you with a question. What makes us this great entrepreneurial institution? Some may say it’s FME. Some may say it’s the [...]

Once again FME fever has struck campus. According to Sandra Siciliano, Senior Program Manager of Academic Services, this year there will be a record eighteen businesses seeking to make a profit. In addition to the FME business staples seen year to year, this year’s company mix includes a bunch of new creative ideas. Two of [...]