Author: Kait Smith Lanthier

Kait Smith Lanthier

Managing Editor

Kait Smith Lanthier

Kait Smith Lanthier is the Director, Content Strategy at Babson College and the Managing Editor of Babson Thought & Action. Her writing has appeared in print and online in a variety of outlets including USA Today, Yahoo Shine, YourTango, CosmoGirl, and First for Women magazine. Smith earned her undergraduate degree in journalism and graduate degree in integrated marketing, both from Marist College.

After the Storm Entrepreneurs are putting their own unique spins on hurricane recovery efforts in the U.S.

Tagged Social Innovation, Global, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

3 Lessons from Distinguished Entrepreneurs What can we learn from the world’s most accomplished entrepreneurs? We look to the world's first entrepreneurship hall of fame to find out.

Tagged Career, Advice, Startups, Household Names, Corporate Innovation

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Roshni Nadar Malhotra on Building India’s Future Roshni Nadar Malhotra has spearheaded a multitude of initiatives and programs that prepare India's next generation of women leaders, and the next generation of nation builders in India’s classrooms.

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Women's Leadership, Social Innovation, Global

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Turning Leftovers into Bestovers This food entrepreneur is using pulp-based snacks to transform the way we think about—and use—food waste.

Tagged Food Entrepreneurship, Women's Leadership, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Social Innovation, Startups

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

People, Planet, Profits: A Recipe for Triple Bottom Line Why Ramon Mendiola, CEO of FIFCO, merged the company’s business strategy with corporate social responsibility.

Tagged Social Innovation, Global, Corporate Innovation

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Need Space for Your Startup? Consider Co-working How do you improve an already world-renowned startup accelerator? The answer for Babson's Summer Venture program was simple: co-working.

Tagged Startups, Advice

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Startup City: Miami’s Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem A new entrepreneurial hub city has emerged far from the sphere of Silicon Valley or the bustling Northeast. That place? Miami.

Tagged Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, Advice, Commentary, Global

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Disrupting the Status Quo Social innovators Rosanne Haggerty and Michael Sorrell are challenging traditional models of doing business, using entrepreneurship to reshape and reimagine the communities—and the world—we live in

Tagged Nonprofit, Women's Leadership, Social Innovation

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

5 Entrepreneurial Lessons From Inspirational Commencement Speeches Before the handshake, the diploma exchange, the turning of tassels, or the tossing of caps, this year’s crop of college graduates will experience a treasured tradition: inspirational commencement speeches.

Tagged Advice

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Meet Jamie Kent: Singer, Songwriter, Entrepreneur Country artist Jamie Kent owes his career success to a blend of pure talent and dedication with a side of entrepreneurship.

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership