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 [...]

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, [...]

By: Daniel Girdusky The anxious freshmen may not know exactly what to expect from their FME () initiation. But the recently vetted sophomores have put in the numbers. Sixteen businesses, three presentations, and countless hours of meetings are just a few of the numbers that summarize the last year for the recently FME (Foundations of [...]

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. [...]

By: Daniel Muise   Everyone who went through FME remembers the stress and the inevitable catastrophe or two that is the affliction of every freshman at Babson. Many an FME business has been assaulted by a seemingly endless and always simultaneous gauntlet of challenges that a normal start-up might encounter; all to learn the lessons [...]

By: Cathy Bao   Babson College is well known for churning out entrepreneurs at an incredible pace and we all know at least one person who has started, or least attempted to start, a business outside of FME. It is the Babson way and the norm for so many of us. However, are we born [...]

By: Monesh Sabunani   As every upperclassman knows, second semester at Babson is traditionally marked with the appearance of a plethora of new student run businesses. As the freshman Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship classes embark on a semester-long business adventure, the signs of entrepreneurial pursuit can be seen throughout campus. After a semester spent [...]

Idealist.org is hosting a career fair in Boston and its free. If you’re not familiar with Idealist.org, it is the site to use if you’re looking for a job in the nonprofit (or socially responsible/oriented) sector. On Tuesday, February 28, Idealist is holding a career fair at Boston University’s Community Service Center. Anyone can go [...]

By: Kristian Tuinzing   “Biggest Entertainment Launch of All Time” was how videogame publisher Activision, subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc., described the debut of their newest title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (MW2). Revenues for first day sales in North America alone were estimated at $310 million. In comparison, Microsoft’s Halo III topped first [...]