Babson is #1 in Graduation Rate of Highly Competitive American Institutions 7/02/2009
A study by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research finds Babson's graduation rate tops among Highly Competitive American Institutions

Babson Alum, Founder of PCBuild, Starts New Company in Portsmouth, NH 7/01/2009
Babson Alum, Michael Healey is opening YEOMAN Technology Group in Portsmouth, NH

Babson College and the Wellesley Centers for Women Partner to Launch: The U.S.-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship  7/01/2009
30 Female College Students from Saudi Arabia Learn Social Entrepreneurship at Babson this Summer

Babson College Among Finalists For 2009 Technology Leadership Awards 6/29/2009
Mass Technology Leadership Council, Inc. leadership awards in the Public Sector Organization category

Babson Students Teach Entrepreneurship in South Africa 6/26/2009
Eight Babson students earn academic and social 'credit' for teaching entrepreneurship to high school students in So. Africa.

Babson 2007 Alum Wins Scholarship to Harvard Law 6/16/2009
Asad Rahim has earned the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship to Harvard Law School.

Financial Times Ranks Babson Executive Education Among Top in the World  6/16/2009
#20 in the world and #11 in the U.S for a combined ranking of custom and open enrollment programs. BEE faculty continues to excel in custom programs, ranking 5 worldwide.

Opportunities Knocked But UK Business Start-Up Rates Hold Steady Says GEM Report 6/15/2009
Fewer people agreed there were good opportunities to start a business in 2008, but people were starting up and running new businesses at the same rate as in previous years according to a new report.

Advancing Entrepreneurial Thought and Action for the World: Banco de Chile and Babson College Chilean Entrepreneurship Educators Program, June 17-19, 2009, Santiago 6/11/2009
28 faculty members from 14 Chilean institutions learn the rigorous art of entrepreneurship case writing and teaching.

CWL’s Jan Shubert Among Speakers At NCRW Conference 2009 6/11/2009
National Council for Research on Women’s annual conference taking place through June 12

Babson Professor Marjorie Feld Wins 2009 Saul Viener Book Prize 6/10/2009
Feld's book "Lillian Wald: A Biography" is honored by the AJHS for its contribution to American Jewish history.

Chile 2008 GEM Report:  Chileans See Entrepreneurship as Desirable Career Option 6/10/2009
80% of the country’s economically active population considers entrepreneurship a desirable career option.

Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" June 19 and 20 at Babson 6/10/2009
Shakespeare in Babson Park offers a free outdoor performance by the Babson Players’s of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" - bring the family!

Babson Team Competes In 2009 Duke MBA Games 6/09/2009
Team donates more than $2,100 to Special Olympics

Charles Anderson, HR Director at Babson College, Awarded NEHRA’s Highest Honor 6/09/2009
Bestowed annually for outstanding accomplishment in the advancement of the human resources profession.

Babson Student Takes Home Six Awards Including Top Honor 6/08/2009
Dan Brown, from Chariton, Iowa, wins the coveted Roger W. Babson Award - and 5 others!

Babson’s Mark Albion Keynotes at MBA Career Services Conference 6/08/2009
Albion will deliver the closing address for the 2009 MBA Career Services Council Conference June 18 in Phoenix.

Babson Hosts Wellesley-Weston PMC Kids Ride 6/02/2009
Babson served as host of the Wellesley-Weston PMC Kids Ride on Sunday, May 31, 2009.

Babson College Signs on to the Principles for Responsible Management Education 5/29/2009
Babson has responded to the global call for business schools and academic associations to advance corporate social responsibility worldwide.

Babson To Host 29th Annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference  5/28/2009
BCERC, widely considered the premier conference for entrepreneurship research, was established in 1981 to provide a dynamic venue where academics and real-world practitioners link theory and practice, and to encourage and increase quality research in entrepreneurship.

Celtra Raises $1.2 Million Series A Financing 5/28/2009
Biz Established at Babson by Mihael Mikek M'06 and Maja Drolec M'07

Babson Holds First Global Academic Summit on Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses--June 1-3, 2009 5/27/2009
Universities from Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and North America Participate in STEP: Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices for Family Enterprises.

Babson Names New Provost 5/26/2009
Shahid Ansari, Dean of Faculty, Professor of Behavioral and Managerial Accounting at Babson College, has been named Provost.

Babson Executive Conference Center Earns 2009 Pinnacle Award—7th Year in a Row 5/21/2009
BECC was honored— a seventh consecutive year—for an outstanding job servicing their meetings during the previous year.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Remains Strong in Ireland 5/21/2009
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report 2008

Babson Hosts 2009 Price Babson SEE (Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators) 5/20/2009
May 25-29, 2009; Entrepreneurship Educators from around the world join real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy.

Advancing Entrepreneurial Thought and Action for the World – Babson Hosts Leading Entrepreneurship Programs And Conference 5/19/2009
In May and June 2009, Babson College, convener and catalyst for entrepreneurship practice and policy globally, will welcome opinion leaders and entrepreneurs to its campus for programs and conferences designed to further shape and advance the field.

Babson Undergrad Helps Launch Institute for Local Business People in Rwanda 5/14/2009
Alex Souza Lopez extends his Babson management field experience to social entrepreneurship in Rwanda.

80+ Women Board Directors Confer on Steering Companies Through Global Downturn 5/12/2009
Executive Education Dean Elaine Eisenman will sit on panel to address Governance with Global Vision

Mark Albion of Babson’s Lewis Initiative Keynotes at National Conference on Volunteering and Service 5/12/2009
Babson's Lewis Initiative takes the lead at the 2009 conference in San Francisco.

Babson College Announces Participation in Post-9/11 GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Program 5/11/2009
Babson will offer this program to both its undergraduate and graduate programs.

Creative Thinking Prize Winners Named at Babson College 5/08/2009
Five talented Babson students share $5500 in prize money for poetry, painting, photography, video, and music!

Babson College Commencement Ceremonies Saturday, May 16, 2009 5/05/2009
The 90th awarding of B.S. degrees for Babson College and 57th awarding of MBA degrees for the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson.

Babson Student Business Teams Win in Not-for-Profit Competition 5/05/2009
Winning Team Worked with Bay State Games; 2nd Place Helped Somerville Chamber

Revolutionary Inventor Ray Kurzweil and Erik Weihenmayer, First Blind Man to Climb Mt. Everest, Are Babson College’s Commencement Speakers 5/05/2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009 on the Upper Athletic Fields of the Babson campus. 

Babson Author Speaks on Cultural Effects of 9/11, May 6 in Cambridge 5/04/2009
Professor Jeffrey Melnick will speak to the core of the American experience following 9/11.

Babson's 2009 Carpenter Prize Awarded to Robert Turner 5/04/2009
Prof. Turner Receives Babson's Most Prestigious Honor

Babson Sophomore Wins Regional Student Entrepreneur Award 5/01/2009
John Xie wins the regional competition and goes to final to vie for $150,000 in cash and donated prizes.

Leading Women's Research Organization Commends Wal-Mart For Increasing Contracts With Women And Minorities 5/01/2009
Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club have been leading sponsors of Accelerating the Growth of Businesses Owned by Women of Color, a multi-year research initiative developed and implemented by the Center for Women’s Business Research and Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson College

Memorial Service for Babson Professor/Economist/Lawyer, Journal Editor, And Magician – May 7, 2009 in Babson’s Glavin Chapel 4/30/2009
Babson Professor Larry Moss will be remembered at a service on May 7, 4 p.m. in Glavin Chapel

Babson MBA Georges Ngongang Awarded 2009-2010 McGowan Scholarship 4/24/2009
Babson's 2009-2010 McGowan Scholarship recipient shows leadership here and will contribute to economic development of his native Cameroon.

Babson MBA Student, Brink-Danan, is Finalist in 2009 Stuart Clark Venture Challenge Business Plan Competition 4/23/2009
Presented new venture, Perfuzia Medical, Inc., which develops a proprietary technology for manipulation of local blood flow.

U.S. News Names Babson's MBA Program #1 In Entrepreneurship – 16th Year In A Row 4/23/2009
U.S.News & World Report magazine has ranked Babson College the #1 MBA program for entrepreneurship for the 16th year in a row.

Babson College Shifts to Federal Direct Loans for its Students 4/22/2009
Babson student loans will now be made through the federal government rather than through commercial lenders.

Babson Professor/Poet Honored by W.B. Yeats Society of NY 4/22/2009
Mary Pinard, English professor and poet earned Honorable Mention for her poem: "Near Deadwood: A Day Before the Family Reunion.

Babson MBA Business Lazybones Wins $20,000+ Business Plan Competition 4/17/2009
Babson MBA candidates Dan Hermann and Joel Pedlikin presented their franchise plan for Lazybones winning the Douglass Prize.

Babson’s Shubert and Foley to Speak at The Conference Board’s Women’s Leadership Conference in New York City, NY on April 21-22nd, 2009 4/17/2009
Will discuss "Intrapreneurs: Key to Company and Professional Growth. "

Ecommerce/Marketing Firm, Before The Stores, LLC, Babson’s 2009 Student Business of the Year 4/17/2009
Babson junior Amar Khubani wins the $5,000 cash prize, public relations assistance from Institutional Advancement, and business counseling from Babson Alumni Resource Networks.

Electronic Dues Collection Business Wins Babson Business Plan Competition 4/17/2009
Undergrad Matt Miller, '09, Wins Muller Prize for Easy Dues.

Babson Hosts Latin American Entrepreneurship Forum April 24 4/13/2009
Keynote speakers are business leaders Gabriel Jaramillo, Sovereign Bank; Roberto Zamora, Latin American Financial Services; and Barry Featherman, Inter-American Economic Council.

Entrepreneurship Eco-system Conference 4/13/2009
Babson co-sponsors May 6th conference at University of Texas at Austin.

Norean Radke Sharpe Named Associate Dean and Director for Undergraduate Programs at Georgetown University 4/10/2009
Currently Div. Chair, Math & Science at Babson.

Six Businesses Compete in Babson’s Business Plan Competitions 4/10/2009
During “Celebrating Student Venturing” day on Thursday, April 16, 2009.

High School Students Present Business Plans to VC Judges at Babson April 17 4/09/2009
TiE Young Entrepreneurs in Boston partners with Babson for practice business plan competition on the way to the real deal.

New Babson Study:  Management, Marketing, Money---Determine High Growth Patterns of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) 4/08/2009
New study by Babson's Brush, Ceru, and Kingston University, UK looks at high-growth SMEs.

Working Knowledge Research Conference at Babson Executive Education May 4-5th, 2009 4/07/2009
A Look at Blending Knowledge Management with Workplace Learning, Human Capital, and Talent Management

Babson Art Exhibit April 16 - May 20 4/06/2009
Delicate Terrestrials - Sculpture and Painting