Babson faculty members are leading providers of global entrepreneurship intellectual capital. Their pathbreaking entrepreneurship research defines, shapes, and advances the field. Published faculty research can be seen in leading academic journals and best-selling textbooks and they infuse this intellectual capital into our academic programs with teaching cases. As thought leaders, our faculty partner with other academics, policy makers, and the business community.

Global Research
Babson, in partnership with the London School of Business, conducts the world’s largest and longest standing, globally focused entrepreneurship research, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). In 2005, we launched the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) project. The STEP Project explores the entrepreneurial process within family businesses and practices for building legacies of social and economic wealth across generations.

We are partners on the Diana Project, a multiyear and multiuniversity study of female business owners and business growth activities. Last year, we founded the Babson/Historically Black Colleges and Universities Entrepreneurship Consortium which is focused on creating teaching cases to represent and encourage black entrepreneurship.

Publications
Every year we invite academic leaders from around the world to participate in the pre-eminent research conference for entrepreneurship, the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. The best papers from the conference are published annually in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (FER). We also publish the Babson Entrepreneurial Review (BER) - a showcase of Babson faculty research on a particular theme.