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What Drives Successful Women in Business? Successful women in business are collaborative and emotionally intelligent. Many learn and hone these skills through Babson Executive Education.

By Bryan Lipiner

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Bryan Lipiner

Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.

November 27, 2019

Tagged Women's Leadership, Women-Led Entrepreneurship, Advice, Campus, Career, Company Culture, Entrepreneurship Education, Executive Education, Faculty

Posted in Insights

3 Ways to Build Your Brand like TB12 Sports How can you build your brand like the CEO of TB12 Sports? Innovate, plan, and retain your customer, says John Burns MBA’05.

By Bryan Lipiner

Writer

Bryan Lipiner

Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.

November 26, 2019

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Campus, Career, Company Culture, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Household Names, Leadership, Management

Posted in Community, Insights

Faculty on Leadership, Music, Entrepreneurship, and Inclusivity In the news, in their books, and on panels, Babson College professors discuss leadership in terms of history, traits, and equality.

By Bryan Lipiner

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Bryan Lipiner

Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.

November 25, 2019

Tagged Advice, Career, Company Culture, Faculty, Leadership, Research

Posted in Community, Insights

A Super Bowl Champion, a Social Innovator, and a Babson College Tradition Super Bowl champion Matt Chatham MBA’11 and Jon Feinman MBA’10 talk about pitching ideas and how mistakes led to success at Rocket Pitch 2019.

By Karl Klaussen

November 25, 2019

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Learning the Art of a Stock Pitch As part of the Babson College Fund, students commit two semesters to develop their investment research skills while managing a portion of the College’s endowment. While presenting a stock pitch in class is common, pitching to legendary investor Peter Lynch is a rare opportunity.

By Farrah Narkiewicz

Contributing Writer

Farrah Narkiewicz

Farrah Narkiewicz is the Program & Marketing Manager for the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance. She previously spent over seven years on a regional marketing team in ad sales. Farrah earned her undergraduate degree from UMass Amherst.

, Patrick Gregory

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Patrick Gregory

Patrick Gregory, CFA is the Managing Director of the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance, the Director of the Babson College Fund, and a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Division at Babson College. Before joining the faculty, Patrick was an institutional portfolio manager at FM Global from 2007-2015, where he managed the Healthcare, Internet, and Telecom sectors of a $6 billion equity portfolio. Patrick is the co-author of Why Stocks Go Up and Down and author of two editions of Financial Management: A Guide to Value Creation.

November 25, 2019

Tagged Advice, Finance, Household Names, Student Life

Posted in Community, Insights

For Fashion Entrepreneur Ruthie Davis, Making Shoes with Disney Is ‘Like a Dream’ In her collaborations with Disney, fashion entrepreneur Ruthie Davis brings together the company’s beloved characters with her distinct creative voice.

By John Crawford

Senior Journalist

John Crawford

A writer for Babson Thought & Action and the Babson Magazine, John Crawford has been telling the College’s entrepreneurial story for more than 15 years. Assignments for Babson have taken him from Rwanda to El Salvador, from the sweet-smelling factory of a Pennsylvania candy maker, to the stately Atlanta headquarters of an NFL owner, to the bustling office of a New York City fashion designer. Beyond his work for Babson, he has written articles and essays for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Notre Dame Magazine, The Good Men Project, and other publications. He can be found on Twitter, @crawfordwriter, where he tweets about climate change.

November 22, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Women-Led Entrepreneurship, Women's Leadership, Startups, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Arts

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership