Diana Project Scholars Receive FSF-NUTEK International Entrepreneurship Award
Candida Brush, Babson College; Nancy Carter, University of St. Thomas and Catalyst, Inc.; Myra Hart, Babson College; Elizabeth Gatewood, Wake Forest University; and Patricia Greene, Babson College received the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award on May 21 from NUTEK, the Swedish Business Development Agency, and FSF, the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research. The FSF-NUTEK Award is given to a person (s) who has produced scientific work of outstanding quality and importance, thereby giving a significant contribution to theory-building concerning entrepreneurship and small business development, the role and importance of new firm formation and Small & Medium Enterprises' role in economic development.
Six Babson Ugrad Women Get 'Broad Advantage' This Summer
Six undergraduate Babson women will participate in Broad Advantage in New York City this summer, immersing themselves in the professional world along with hundreds of other undergraduate women from the world’s leading institutions. As one of 85 Broads partner schools, Babson is represented by senior Chanelle Carver (Pleasant Valley, NY), sophomores Shirmila Doddi (Southboro, Mass.), Alison Rosenfeld (Newton Center, Mass.), and Meredith McLeod Sears (Houston, TX), and first-years Tiffany Lien (Holmdel, NJ) and Vanessa Theoharis (Upton, Mass.). Broad Advantage is open exclusively to the most promising undergraduates from the partner schools, selected through a competitive process
Evidence from the research carried out for Prowess by Dr Rebecca Harding, executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) (based on a survey of 32,000 people in the UK), shows that women are driving enterprise in the rural economy, and that women are more successfully exploiting technology suited to a new style of enterprise.
