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Working at Facebook in 2020 Christopher Maddox ’17 dreams of pursuing entrepreneurship, professorship, and public office. Right now? He’s working, and learning, inside Facebook in a year of social unrest.

By Brianna Radicioni

October 29, 2020

Tagged Alumni, Diversity and Inclusion

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Students Show Leadership in Civic, and Civil, Engagement The Babson Political Association has one rule: Challenge the idea, not the person. And, in light of current events, it remains steadfast on civil discourse as the best and maybe only way to be productive.

By Brianna Radicioni

October 29, 2020

Tagged Student Life, Undergraduate, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Fight Against Isolation in the Time of COVID To combat isolation in older adults, a student team from Babson’s FutureLab on Mobility explored how to improve access to technology.

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.

October 28, 2020

Tagged Technology, Social Innovation, Undergraduate, Graduate

Posted in Community, Insights

A sketch of Nobel Prize-winning scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

‘Quantum Leap’: Nobel-Winning Scientists Advance Women’s Leadership Two women scientists won the Nobel Prize collectively for the first time Oct. 7, inspiring women for years to come, says Smaiyra Million and Susan Duffy.

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.

October 26, 2020

Tagged Women's Leadership, Advice, Career, Diversity and Inclusion, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Women-Led Entrepreneurship

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership