Elaine Eisenman, Dean, Babson Executive Education (BEE), has named Susan Foley, to the newly created role of Executive Director of Research Centers.

Foley will be in charge of oversight, management, and continued growth of the Centers and will help to integrate their findings into BEE’s corporate programs.

Foley is founder of Corporate Entrepreneurs LLC, a management consulting firm focused on helping organizations build new growth businesses. She has spent the last twenty years helping Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial startups develop new businesses that have generated millions of dollars in new revenue.

Prior to that entrepreneurial venture, Foley was vice president of research services at Standard & Poor’s where she built and managed a venture funded initiative to create the Industry Research Services business. She has held senior positions with 3M, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment, Arthur D. Little and DMR Group (Now Fujitsu Consulting).   

“Susan brings us a wealth of experience in building research services businesses,” says Dean Eisenman. “As an experienced corporate entrepreneur, Susan understands the challenges and opportunities of creating an entrepreneurial mindset and infrastructure inside an established organization. In her soon to be published book, Entrepreneurs Inside – Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs, she takes a look at corporate entrepreneurship through the eyes of corporate entrepreneurs.”

Foley earned a BS and MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, a post-graduate degree in Health Administration from Simmons Graduate School, and attended the Executive Management Training Program at INSEAD.