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A sample of recent media coverage of Babson College:
Babson takes competitive spirit to Ghana
Boston Globe (blog), Lydia Rebac, Jan 21, 2010
More than 2,500 people waited in suspense for Babson College Dean Dennis Hanno to announce the champion of the Babson Cup.
The Campus Consultant
Wall Street Journal, Diana Middleton, Jan 20, 2010
At Babson College, a school known for its focus on entrepreneurship, custom consulting-like programs comprise 80% of the school's executive education portfolio. Innovation-focused programs are the flavor du jour for client companies, says Elaine Eisenman, dean of Babson's executive education.
From Combat to Company
MSN Money, Eve Tahmincioglu, Jan 21, 2010
While we may think of military folks as being used to following orders, most end up with experience that is a perfect fit for entrepreneurship, says Babson's Larry Carr.
Doing good can be good for business
Boston Herald, Jennifer Heldt Powel, 1/24/10
A good place to start in developing an effective giving plan is take into account the purpose of the business and the interest of its constituents, which includes customers, employees and suppliers, said John R. Whitman, a business professor at Babson College.
Hong Kong, Shenzhen See Drop in Entrepreneurialism
Wall Street Journal (blog), 1/19/09
Global GEM research
Wired’s 20 Favorite iPhone Apps of 2009
Wired, 12/2009
Jason Jacobs MBA '05 @runkeeper named one of Wired's 20 favorite iPhone apps of 2009
Execs at Jobs Summit
CNN, 12/4/09 (video)
David Barber '81, VP of family biz Barber Foods, attends White House job summit
Brookline entrepreneur competes on reality show
Brookline TAB, 12/20/09
MBA alum Shea started RetireLife.net
SWS’s Top Ten Wedding Guest Picks Of 2009
Survive Wedding Season Blog, 12/23/09
MBA alum biz Canditto is one of its Top 10 Ideas of 2009
The biggest mistake investors make
Morningstar, 12/23/09
Undergraduate alum Rusty Vanneman, CFA, director of research at E*TRADE and chief information officer of its Kobren Insight Management division, based in the United States, discusses the biggest mistake investors make: Chasing performance by buying high and selling low.
Decide to Survive: Decision Management for Uncertain Times
ebizQ (blog), 12/28/09
MBA graduate Leah Archibald whitepaper identifies 4 imperatives that businesses need to survive in 2010
Gifts for pooches and the people who love them
Today show/MSNBC, 12/10/09
Video
MBA alum Ren Moulton product Frolick Lasso retractable leash featured
Online Pro Shop overcomes local handicaps on eBay
eBizPlanet.net, 1/2/10
Then in 2000 Leigh hooked up with Alex Choi, a graduate of the School of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and employee of Titlest and FootJoy. Leigh and Alex put their heads together to find a way to scale their business on eBay.
Haute 5 Comfort Foods in New York: The Feasting Time of Year is Here
Haute Living, 12/15/09
Desserts by alum Tawny Ong - Red Velvet Cupcakes fit for the holiday
A Green Transition
Digital Media Newsroom, 12/09
Efish was launched 17 months ago out of a Manhattan apartment by two Babson College graduates.
Enseignement supérieur Les nouvelles tendances de l'entrepreneuriat
Les Échos, 12/15/09
La crise fournit une quantité incroyable d'opportunités », note Leonard Schlesinger, président de Babson College. Il n'est pas anodin, en outre, ...
Investing in Entrepreneurial Companies
Fox Business (video), 12/15/09
Prof. Joel Shulman in success of entrepreneurial companies
Are Business Plan Competitions Good for Start-Ups?
New York Times (blog), 12/18/09
... she also admires those hosted by Babson College, University of Texas at Austin and Rice University - really focus on helping create actual start-ups. ...
Invent a Cool Clothing Site, Now Leave the Country-Fan Bi, Blank Label, and ...
Xconomy, 12/16/09
Bi is a citizen of Australia and a student at the University of New South Wales in Sydney who has spent the last year in a study-abroad program at Babson ...
Scaling Up: Women-Owned Businesses Can Recharge The Global Economy
Forbes, 12/17/09
Only about 5% of all equity capital investments in the US go to women-led businesses, and just 3% get investments from venture capital, according to Babson ...
Insurance Gaps Affect Use Blood Pressure Medications
Renal and Urology News, 12/14/09
The investigators, Yunwei Gai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Babson
Another Entrepreneurial Myth Busted
The Entrepreneurial Mind, 12/17/09
New research from Babson College by Prof. Joel Shulman finds that publicly traded stocks led by entrepreneurs, consistently outperform non-entrepreneurs by a wide margin
6 Weeks to a Better Bottom Line
Entrepreneur, 1/1/2010
"You have to be pretty lean now, but there are opportunities to grow if you are in a position to take advantage of them," says Edward Marram, a senior lecturer at Babson College
Are Actively Managed ETFs Right for You?
Daily Finance, 12/18/09
"Individual and institutional investors can get mutual-fund or hedge-fund strategies with much greater liquidity and lower cost," says Joel Shulman, an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, who is creating a series of actively managed, entrepreneur-related ETFs.
Get on better terms with clients
Boston Herald, 12/20/09
... on frugality and thrift rather than expansiveness and excessiveness," said Dennis Ceru, a business consultant and Babson College adjunct professor. ...
Gillette adjusts the lineup
Boston Globe, 12/15/09
... parallel to that of Gillette,'' said John Fisher, a sports branding professor at Babson College and former chief executive of sneaker company Saucony. ..
How will Tiger Woods' alleged infidelities affect companies
NECN, 12/14/09
John Fisher on Tiger and Gillette
MBA To CEO
Pink Magazine
Babson among top business schools
Why projects fail: Obstacles and solutions
Enterprise Irregulars (blog), 12/15/09
... on understanding and preventing IT failure, to 30 senior project managers at Babson College's Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS). ...
Empresas ainda são pouco empreendedoras
Último Segundo, 12/15/09
"Elas se reinventam e sobrevivem graças a métodos como a experimentação, a multidisciplinaridade e ambiente colaborativo", diz o professor da Babson College, Jay Rao, especialista no tema.
Middle School Kids From Boston Pitch Business Plan
Wellesley Cable, 12/14/09
Middle schoolers taught by students from Prof. Green's class
Prisoner to the Restaurant Waiting Room? Textaurant Sets You Free
Boston Innovation, 12/16/09
Student biz Textaurant is a new area startup that makes restaurant wait times a thing of the past.
Increasing Your Brand's Footprint
Inc, 12/1/09
Business created in Product Design Class
Entrepreneurial Minute: Idea Paint...LOVE this idea!
MJ's Tabletalk, 12/20/09
Ugrad alum biz IdeaPaint
Brookline entrepreneur competes on reality show
Brookline TAB, 12/15/09
Shea earned a master's degree in business administration from Babson College in Wellesley, and started RetireLife.net after being involved in her ...
A Green Transition
Digital Media Newsroom, 12/09
Efish was launched 17 months ago out of a Manhattan apartment by two Babson College graduates
Real needs key to product design
Boston Herald, 12/13/09
Babson’s 2009 Product Design Fair
Increasing Your Brand’s Footprint
Inc, 12/1/09
Fit in Clouds began in Product Design class
Health bills create a new GM
Providence Journal, RI, 12/7/09
Oped by Prof. Marty Anderson: Congress is inadvertently testing human ability to manage collective behavior by proposing the largest single administrative structure ever attempted by the human species.
More immigrants leap into business ownership
Boston Globe, 12/9/09
Last year, an estimated 61 percent of new businesses were launched by immigrants, according to a Babson College survey.
Are entrepreneurs born or made?
CNNMoney.com - Ian Mount, 12/9/09
For Heidi Neck, a professor of entrepreneurial studies at Babson College, nature studies hinder the democratization of entrepreneurship. ...
Graduation day for first Saltire fellows
Herald Scotland, 12/6/09
Each fellow attended a 16-week course at Babson College in Boston, the world’s top-ranked business school for entrepreneurship, before undertaking placements with large blue-chip organisations overseas and small high-growth entrepreneurial ventures in Scotland
How Minority-Owned Businesses Can Catch a Break
Businessweek, 12/4/09
Babson course Moving from Managing to Leading
Winning campaign becomes marketing mess for Gillette
Boston Globe, 12/10/09
John Fisher, a former chief executive of sneaker company Saucony who teaches sports brand marketing at Babson College, agrees, saying that before the ...
Gillette benches Tiger Woods
Boston Globe, 12/13/09
John Fisher, a sports brand marketing professor at Babson College, said Gillette had to take action to preserve its reputation as a "generational brand" ...
Gillette limiting Woods's role in ads
Boston Globe, 12/13/09
John Fisher, a sports brand marketing professor at Babson College, said Gillette had to take action to preserve its reputation as a “generational brand'' ...
A New Political Darling: The Entrepreneur
Smart Money, 12/8/09
“Capitalism and business development [can] lead to job growth, which leads to increased prosperity, as well as peacefulness,” Prof. Ceru
Promoting High Growth Entrepreneurship in India
Wall Street Journal, NY, 12/8/09
While India has a long history of entrepreneurship, as evidenced by centuries of business and commercial activity and the existence of generations old business groups and families, recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor studies found that entrepreneurship in India has predominantly been necessity based rather than opportunity based
Cheap, Chic Gifts for Your Coworkers
Good Morning America, NY, 12/7/09
IdeaPaint biz began in ugrad dorm
Chamber of Commerce, Babson College team up to boost business
Caribbean Business PR, 12/10/09
Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (PRCC) has signed an agreement with Babson College in Boston to promote investment, the growth of businesses and the private sector on the island through Puerto Rico Conference 2010
First Internet-based College Guide Now Available
Media Newswire, 12/8/09
Top Business school was Babson College was the Top Business ( 67 overall, college )
Checking Back In With the Risk-Takers
New York Times, 12/10/09
MBA alumni business Knob Hill Partners, search fund of Burckmyer/Noll, is reviewing companies to buy
Where to Find Statistics on Startups
BusinessWeek, 12/4/09
Also international in scope is the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The 2008 National Entrepreneurial Assessment for the United States of America, produced by Babson College and Baruch College, concentrates on U.S. companies, while the larger Monitor report measures entrepreneurial attitudes, aspirations and activity in 43 countries.
How to Sell on Amazon and eBay
New York Times, 12/2/09
“Merely being listed on eBay or Amazon isn’t a sustainable business,” said Dennis Ceru, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. ...
Can You Still Make a Living Selling on Amazon and eBay?
New York Times, 12/2/09
Everett Heraldnet, WA, 12/4/09
“Merely being listed on eBay or Amazon isn’t a sustainable business,” said Dennis Ceru, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson
EverettHeraldnet, WA, blog, 12/4/09
Recession has changed the face of entrepreneurship
The Tennessean, 12/4/09
The latest study issued by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, recently released by Babson College, gives a very interesting snapshot of the face of
Emergent shows it has energy, finds renewable customers
Boston Herald, 11/29/09
Today, the four-member firm still includes Gossett and Uppal, both 24 and Tufts graduates, as well as Jacobs, who is still a student at Babson, ...
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IdeaPaint: Creative Company On The Rise
ABC News, 12/2/09 (video)
Jeff Avallon cofounded company while an undergraduate at Babson
Make Your Walls Erasable
FoxBusiness, 12/2/09 (video)
Jeff Avallon cofounded company while an undergraduate at Babson
Babson screening inspired in entrepreneurship
Boston Business Journal, 12/4/09
... for the Moon,” which chronicles the entrepreneurial aspirations of a handful of inner-city teens, at Babson College's Knight Auditorium last night. ...
The Jenzabar Foundation Aids Babson College in Providing Educational Programs ...
PR Web, 11/30/09
The Jenzabar Foundation is also providing a grant to the Net Impact Babson Chapter to subsidize the cost of Babson students attending the 2009 Net Impact ..
Shoppers cut back on gas and food but stick to brand names
Daily Finance (blog), 12/3/09
Shoppers trim their food budgets when gas prices rise, but they don't always give up the name-brand foods they like, according to research coauthored by Prof. Dhruv Grewal
Forum for Social Entrepreneurs Holds Conference
India New England, 11/23/09
Conference at Babson
Stopping Short of No More Fries
Inside Higher Ed, 12/1/09
Though some colleges – like Babson College, where 10 ounce ice
Where to Find Statistics on Startups
BusinessWeek, 12/4/09
We Hear: Matt Damon, Wyc Grousbeck, Sean Grande and more...
Boston Herald, 12/3/09
Boston Celtics (team stats) cheese Wye Grousebeck had to TiVo last night's Celtics-Spurs showdown because he was due at Babson College
Fitnesskeeper lands seed funds
Mass High Tech, MA, 11/30/09
Fitnesskeeper Inc., established by Jason Jacobs M.05, receives $400,000 in a seed-stage investment from LaunchCapital
FitnessKeeper Chases Down $400000 in Seed Funding
Xconomy, 11/30/09
... investors were scarce, so the company focused on building its first application rather than fundraising, according to Jacobs, a Babson College graduate. ...
New York Life Appoints Barry Schub as Head of Human Resources
Business Wire, 12/2/09
Schub holds an MBA degree from Babson
Paragon Lake Hires New Online Marketing Director
Jewelers Circular Keystone Online, 12/2/09
Previously, Marques held the role of manager, entrepreneur development at Babson College where he was responsible for supporting and developing Babson's ...
Critical Issues Forum 2009: Aftershock: Rebuilding Trust & Confidence In 2010
Council Of Public Relations Firms, 10/29/09
President Schlesinger facilitate keynote discussion with Professor/Commentator/Adviser David Gergen
Younger Americans Less Likely To Start Businesses
U.S. News & World Report, 11/23/09
Babson College's Global Entrepreneurship Monitor was recently released, and it found that the average entrepreneur in America is getting older. ...
Nonprofit Execs Pocket Large Salaries, Perks
Boston Channel.com, 11/25/09
Prof. Allan Cohen, who also serves on two nonprofit boards of directors, comments on salaries of executives at non-profits.
BU considers campuses in India, Abu Dhabi
Boston Globe, 11/28/09
Ugrad Duylam Nguyen-Ngo, a budding entrepreneur, credits his single mother with inspiring him to enter Babson College despite growing up in a dangerous Richmond ...
How to Capitalize Your Start-Up When Banks Say "No"
MSN Money, 11/27/09
Trying to obtain start-up capital forces most new ventures into a Catch-22 situation, explained Adjunct Glenn Kaplus
Business Insight
Wellesley Channel, 11/19/09 (video)
Peter Marx interview with entrepreneur and CWL Executive-In-Residence Shainoor Khoja
When Debt Lacks Value
Boston Globe, MA, 11/27/09
Peter Brooke tells students at Babson and MIT that today’s market reminds him of the 1970s, when his work was hard but never more engaging.
En EE.UU. Aún No Llegamos a la Mitad de la Recuperación
Estrategia, 11/23/09
El economista del Babson College de Boston cree que es muy probable que se apruebe un segundo plan de ayuda económica, de similar tamaño, que se traduciría ...
At home, in business Fitchburg entrepreneurs start close to home
Worcester Telegram, 11/26/09
The early success of the Howarth House does not come as a complete surprise to Prof. Peter F. Biro
An Economist's Invisible Hand
Wall Street Journal, NY, 11/29/09
Prof. Marty Anderson comment on profile of Arthur Cecil Pigou
Wall Street Journal, NY, 11/29/09
Designer Discounts For Shoppers On The Web
WBZ-TV, MA, 11/23/09
Video
"There's a lot of extra inventory out there. These companies are looking to unload that inventory and it's a convenient place to do it, "says Prof. Glenn Kelley
Climbing: Brooklyn Boulders, New York
Gloobbi, 11/22/09
Cool is the modus operandi at Brooklyn Boulders. Started by a group of friends from Babson College in Massachusetts, the center is a privately-run operation aiming to offer great service and expert training, in a “chill-lax” environment.
Dogs get a taste of Bark Avenue
TheDay.com, 11/27/09
MBA alum Rob Hunter opens Dockside Dogs, offering a variety of dog-related items
Babson president part of $500M initiative
Boston Business Journal, 11/18/09
Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger is on the Advisory Council for the entrepreneurship initiative called 10000 Small Businesses
Babson's New San Francisco-Based MBA Program
BusinessWeek, NY, 11/09
New Fast Track MBA in San Francisco
Wacky Business School Traditions
BusinessWeek, NY, 11/09
Babson MBA’s Buffoonery
The Face of Entrepreneurship in the US
The Entrepreneurial Mind (blog), 11/21/09
US GEM research
Study finds NY entrepreneurship lagging nation
Crain's New York Business, 11/18/09
The report, which surveyed nearly 1000 people statewide, was conducted by the City University of New York's Baruch College, along with Babson College
Airline Tests Retail Sales at 35000 Feet
New York Times, 11/16/09
But Michael Levy, a marketing professor and the director of the Retail Supply Chain Institute at Babson College in Massachusetts, expects that they will. ...
68 Rules? No, Just 3 Are Enough
New York Times, 11/29/09
This interview with William D. Green, chairman and CEO of Accenture: Why he hires at Babson
Entrepreneurs: Stop Innovating, Start Minnovating
HarvardBusiness.org (blog) - Daniel Isenberg, 11/19/09
You had your sound bite — but now it's time for a generation of minnovators to emerge. Daniel Isenberg, PhD, is a professor of management practice at Babson ...
Deadbeat Lottery Agents Owe State Millions
Boston Channel.com, 11/19/08
... most businesses will find that they'll cut off their supply chain if it extends far too long," said Dennis Ceru, of Babson College. ...
Where I Your Stimulus Money Going
WCVB-TV 5, 11/19/09
Prof. Michael Goldstein on the government stimulus of the economy
5 Entrepreneurship Basics B-Schools Don’t Teach
Planning Startup Stories, 11/12/09
Numerous comments about Babson, including: “Babson provides real opportunity for taking business education and putting it into action.”
Gen Y StartUp Of The Week: CauseShare
GenYStartup, 11/17/09
Ugrad alum biz Causeshare – raise $$$ for good causes
Myths Of Owning A Small Business
Forbes, NY, 11/12/09
"These glamorous stories serve to make entrepreneurship appear to be an exclusive art that's relegated to a few people who exhibit a variety of specific traits," says Len Schlesinger, president of Babson
Wise Words: 11 Myths Of Owning A Small Business – Slide Show
Forbes, NY, 11/12/09
"Entrepreneurs are actually very good at avoiding risk rather than taking it on," says Len Schlesinger, president of Babson
Adding value to nonprofits
Boston Business Journal, MA, 11/16/09
Leonard A. Schlesinger and Alan Lewis have recommendations for business leaders who serve on boards who often ask themselves how they — and the organizations they support with their time, treasure and talent — can do more
Babson launches MBA in San Francisco
Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, 11/10/09
The business school which specializes in entrepreneurship - Babson College - is to begin teaching an MBA program in the home of the entrepreneur - San Francisco.
Babson ranks for executive education
Boston Business Journal, 11/11/09
Babson College's executive education program has been ranked sixth by BusinessWeek magazine among US Custom Programs and 11th among Custom Programs ...
With Jobs Scant, MBAs Consider Startups
BusinessWeek, NY, 11/9/09
MBA student businesses RecipeKey, Cocoa Metro, and alum biz Canditto
The Winning Young Entrepreneurs, 2009
BusinessWeek, 11/9/09
Ugrad student business Emergent Energy named #1; Ugrad alum biz IdeaPaint named #3
BusinessWeek Announces Winners of Entrepreneur Contest
Fox Small Business Center, 11/12/09
Ugrad student business Emergent Energy
Michigan and MIT displace Harvard atop Internet Media Buzz Ranking
Media Newswire, 11/9/09
Babson College is #1 in Specialty Business School ranking #(67 overall, college category).
Leading up: How to manage your boss
CNN International, 11/10/09
Professor Allan Cohen of Babson College, Massachusetts, is the author of "Influence without Authority." He told CNN, "If you can help your boss be more ...
Ernst & Young Report Focuses on Driving Economic Growth Through the Expansion ...
PR Newswire, 11/11/09
In the US, for example, women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate of men -- if these women entrepreneurs started with the same capital as men, they would add 6 million jobs to the economy in 5 years, according to research from Babson College referenced in the report.
Cramer: Investors, Don't Do This
CNBC, 11/12/09
According to Babson College research, Ernst & Young Chairman and CEO Jim Turley told Cramer and Erin Burnett, 6 million jobs would be created in five years ...
Clouds of Confusion
IT Business Edge, 11/11/09
The good news is that the Society of Information Management (SIM) has an Advanced Practices Council that has commissioned a few professors from Babson, Boston University and Arizona State to get to the bottom of this cloud computing confusion
Babson College student in Wellesley blogs about being first in family to attend college
Wellesley Townsman, 11/12/09
He is his mother's first, and only, child. He is the first in his family to be born in America, not Vietnam. ...
Balloon boy parents plead 'guilty,' but is justice served?
Christian Science Monitor, 11/13/09
A professor at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass., even calculated the expense to the US economy. The bill? Some $2.8 billion in lost productivity. ...
Sonic proposal aces another zoning test
Lowell Sun, MA, 11/11/09
MBA student Gregg Monastiero looks to expand Sonic franchise into another town
Why Don’t All Entrepreneurs Write Business Plans?
New York Times, NY,11/9/09
Comment: Studies from William Bygrave of Babson College showing that business plans don’t work!
Cradles to Crayons holds Wellesley family volunteer day
Wellesley Townsman, 11/13/09
What do you get when you combine the brawn of the Babson lacrosse team, the energy of the Wellesley High School Key Club and nearly 200 enthusiastic Wellesley volunteers?
