Babson Hosts Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators for Santander Fellows
Entrepreneurship educators from around the world learned about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the SEE-Santander Fellows from September 22-30, 2009 at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.
During the intensive program, participants explored the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline. Babson hosted 30 entrepreneurship educators from around the globe including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The goal of the program was to help all participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship. Topics this year included:
• The Entrepreneurial Teacher and Symposium Overview
• Entrepreneurship as Thought and Action
• Entrepreneurship as Venture Creation
• Idea Lab and SEE-Santander Innovation Challenge
• Understanding Entrepreneurial Finance
• Managing the Growing Venture
• Technology Entrepreneurship
• The Timmons Model of Entrepreneurship in Action
• Social Entrepreneurship: Building Businesses for a Better World
• Family Enterprising
• The Entrepreneurial Teacher: Skills Practicum
• The First Two Minutes of Class
• Teaching Business Planning
• What do Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship Have in Common
• Opportunity Identification Through Observation
• New Venture Creation as a Rite of Passage: The First Year Start-Up
• Entrepreneurship Education as a Connected Practice: The Role of Social Media in Teaching 21st Century Entrepreneurs.
• Value-driven Entrepreneurship: Scripting for Action and Implementation
The participants also had an opportunity to visit undergraduate and graduate classes at Babson College.
Heidi Neck, Faculty Director and Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Babson Professors President Leonard Schlesinger, Andrew Zacharakis, Les Charm, Mark Rice, Angelo Santinelli, Candida Brush, Walter Esquivel, Allan Cohen, Bob Caspe, Lisa DiCarlo, Erik Noyes, Mary Gentile, Patti Greene and consultant Daena Giardella are the faculty team for this program.
Since 1984, Babson has trained over 2200 academics and entrepreneurs from over 576 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 57 countries, to teach entrepreneurship combining theory and practice to tens of thousands of students each year.
Santander has built its own business model, which is supported by the following pillars: a strong focus on retail banking through the largest international network of branches (over 14,000, including Sovereign) in international banking; geographical diversification; prudence in risk management; cutting-edge technology at the service of commercial efficiency; capital discipline; and the best management team.
The aim of this model is to offer the greatest added value to its 90 million customers, 3 million shareholders and 170,961 employees.
BANCO SANTANDER AND SANTANDER UNIVERSITIES
A deeply held belief at Banco Santander is that investing in higher education and research is the most powerful means of promoting the development and prosperity of society. In keeping with this belief, the ‘Santander Universities' scheme was launched in 1996 and implemented in countries in which the bank had a presence. Through the scheme Banco Santander supports the higher education sector in the Americas, China, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and Russia in areas such as teaching and research, international cooperation, knowledge and technology transfer, entrepreneurial initiatives, student mobility and innovation.
