Babson College - Founder's Day

Wednesday, April 9

Honoring Roger W. Babson’s Legacy and
Forever Expanding our Global Perspective

All Day

Food Drive (Trim Dining Hall and Reynolds Campus Center)
Sponsored by College Kicks (FME Business)

Children & Young Adult Book and Toy Drive (Trim Dining Hall and Reynolds Campus Center)
Sponsored by Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Sigma Kappa Sororities

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Registration - Business Plan Competitions (Olin Hall)

8:30 a.m.

Douglass Foundation Graduate Business Plan Competition (Olin Auditorium)
Sponsored by Pepper Hamilton LLP

9:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Blood Drive with Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Reynolds Campus Center)
Sponsored by Sigma Kappa Sorority

10:30 a.m.
John H. Muller, Jr. Undergraduate Business Plan Competition
(Olin Auditorium)
Sponsored by Pepper Hamilton LLP

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Campus-Wide Community Lunch
(Trim Dining Hall)
Featuring a special tribute to the College's founder, Roger W. Babson

FME Business Fair
(Trim Dining Hall)

2:30 p.m.
Afternoon Program
(Sorenson Theater)

Welcome
Patricia Greene
Provost
Babson College

Awards Ceremony
Douglass Foundation Business Plan Prizes, John H. Muller Jr. Business Plan Prizes, Student Business of the Year Award, Shelby Cullom Davis Entrepreneurship Prize

The Glavin Symposium at Founder's Day
Exposing Differences in Global Management Philosophies.
Sponsored by the William F. Glavin Center for Global Management

Moderator
Jean-Pierre Jeannet
F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Director of the European Institute

Panelists

Ernesto Bertarelli '89, Former CEO and Deputy Chairman of the global biotechnology firm Serono, SA and winner of the 2003 and 2007 America’s Cup for Europe.

Lee Man Tat, Group Chairman of the Lee Kum Kee Group of China, a renowned food services brand which markets a wide range of savory products to more than 100 countries and regions in the world.

Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises Limited, a holding company that includes the largest mobile phone company in India. Rakesh Bharti Mittal is the elder brother of Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and CEO, Bharti Enterprises Limited, who will be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs.

Thomas Stallkamp, Chair, Babson Board of Trustees.

3:45 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

Speaker: Ernesto Bertarelli '89
Moderator: Elaine Eisenman, Dean, Babson Executive Education
Sponsored by Sail(Proud) Apparel and Babson Life Sciences Group
Speaker: Lee Man Tat
Moderator: Robert Eng, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of the Asia Institute
Sponsored by BAPSA and Asia Business Forum

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