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 [...]

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 [...]

Babson has a long-standing reputation for having one of the premier entrepreneurship programs in the world, having been awarded with #1 graduate program rankings from The Financial Times, US News & World Report, The Princeton Review and the most top-10 undergrad specialty rankings from Businessweek. Everyone at Babson should be proud of the culmination of [...]

Rwanda. A country where the per capita GDP has quadrupled over the past 15 years. A country that is ranked 11th easiest in the world to start a business. A country oozing with entrepreneurial potential but lacking the resources necessary to maximize its potential. This is where Ben Cox, (UGrad Class of 2010) Chris Smith, [...]

On the evening of Wednesday, April 7, while the majority of Babson students were taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather, a handful of select students, along with professors, other Babson community members, and Boston business professionals, headed to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in downtown Boston to attend the first World Stage Event. [...]

While school is closed for the winter break, some students are in Ghana teaching entrepreneurship to students and business owners in Sekondi and Takoradi, Ghana. Students have been visiting Ghana with Dean Hanno for 10 years, beginning while he was at UMASS Amherst. This is the third year that students from Babson have come. Students [...]

By: Kirsty StPierre   The Ultimate Entrepreneurship Challenge class were presented with a new and exciting prospect by Bob Reiss. This experienced entrepreneur and author,  has started sixteen businesses, was looking for new and creative ways to market his recent book, Bootstrapping 101. As one might expect, the students in this class were more than [...]

Erin Connery and Oscar Quintero B’09 have joined the new non-profit Ethos Alliance team in San Francisco. The group will be hosting a free, public event on October 14th in Babson’s Knight Auditorium that promises to be a great experience for all involved (details listed blow). The Ethos Alliance (“Ethos”) was founded in May 2009 [...]

Babson College has been named #1 in Entreprenuerial Education at the UGrad and Grad levels