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Here's What Babson Students are Learning During Summer Internships Undergraduate students are sharing lessons from their summer internships on Babson’s blog platform. Here's what they learned.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

July 19, 2019

Tagged Undergraduate, Career

Posted in Community

One Family’s Non-Linear Family Entrepreneurship Journey For three generations, the Barber family has evolved their business from a small butcher shop to a national food industry leader.

By Lauri Union

July 18, 2019

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Startups, Food Entrepreneurship

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Babson Educators Influence Future Leaders, Scholars Babson’s faculty and thought leaders continue to inspire and influence through conferences, academic studies, and women’s leadership organizations.

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.

July 18, 2019

Tagged Advice, Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Global, Leadership, Research, Women's Leadership

Posted in Insights

Female Founders of Mighty Well wins the Babson Breakaway Challenge

5 Creative Ways Female Founders Fund Their Startups Women entrepreneurs are finding creative ways to develop diverse funding portfolios, allowing them to launch, build, and scale their startups without traditional angel and venture capital dollars.

By Ashley Lucas

July 17, 2019

Tagged Women-Led Entrepreneurship, VC & Investing, Startups

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Helping Professors Thrive with Custom Coaching Through customized coaching, David James MBA’18 helps professors achieve their classroom goals and become better teachers.

By Jeannine Stein

July 17, 2019

Tagged Babson Magazine, Alumni, Graduate, Social Innovation

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

In Guatemala, Scale Up Brings New Opportunity to a Troubled Triangle It’s easy to imagine Guatemala as a region beset exclusively by failure and despair. But Scale Up Xela is changing that conversation by accelerating the pace of growth of dozens of local firms.

By Daniel Isenberg

July 16, 2019

Tagged Global, Faculty, Entrepreneurship Education

Posted in Insights

From the World Cup to Babson: Building a Winning Culture What can we learn from the USWNT’s World Cup Victory? Building a championship culture starts with embedding the right values.

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.

July 15, 2019

Tagged Athletics, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Women's Leadership, Women-Led Entrepreneurship

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

BRAC Project Just Shy of Finish Line The countdown is on for the opening of the Babson Recreation and Athletics Complex as work nears completion on the state-of-the-art facility.

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.

July 12, 2019

Tagged Athletics, Campus, Centennial, Student Life

Posted in Community

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton at Babson Boston

Major Change for Asset Managers, Says SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, visited Babson Boston to share his insights on anew regulation a decade in the making.

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

July 12, 2019

Tagged Finance, Household Names, Leadership

Posted in Community