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‘Some of You Have Already Changed the World’ Graduate Commencement student speaker Rodrigo Riviello MBA’19 applauded his classmates for all they’ve already accomplished, and encouraged them to lean on the Babson network, no matter the cause.

By Brianna Radicioni

May 23, 2019

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Centennial, Commencement, Global, Graduate

Posted in Community

Centennial Commencement Caps Off Celebratory Week Over the course of 72 hours, a series of historic events and celebrations forever altered the course of Babson.

By Andy Tiedemann

May 20, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Campus, Centennial, Commencement

Posted in Community

Poets & Quants Says Babson MBAs Are Ones to Watch Reveling in the excitement of Babson’s Centennial Commencement, the College is proud to announce two more new grads recognized by Poets & Quants.

By Brianna Radicioni

May 17, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Career, Commencement, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Graduate, Women's Leadership

Posted in Community

Polina Raygorodskaya and Gustavo Trindade

How Solving 1 Problem Led to Millions in Revenue Wanderu founder Polina Raygorodskaya ’08 illustrated to the growing startup community of Miami how solving a problem led to more than $100 million in revenue.

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.

May 16, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Advice, Corporate Innovation, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups, Women's Leadership, VC & Investing

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Co-authors of Maternal Optimism Danna Greenberg (right) and Jamie Ladge.

How Balancing a Career and Motherhood Makes You Better at Both Professor Danna Greenberg and alumna Jamie Shapiro Ladge ’95 are co-authors of Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood. Together, they’re helping women navigate the complexities of being a working mother to find joy, success, and perspective.

By Brianna Radicioni

May 9, 2019

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Books, Career, Faculty, Mentoring & Networking, Research

Posted in Insights

Babson's 2019 Honorary Degree Recipients

Babson to Award Eight Honorary Degrees at Centennial Commencement Eight visionary entrepreneurs will receive honorary degrees at Babson College’s Centennial Commencement ceremonies on May 18, 2019.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

May 9, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Centennial, Commencement

Posted in Community

Class of 2019 Toasts Its Way into Alumni Network The Class of 2019 was welcomed into Babson’s alumni network Wednesday evening at the College’s annual champagne toast.

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.

May 7, 2019

Tagged Commencement, Alumni

Posted in Community

But First, A Look Back at Toyoda’s Time at Babson In anticipation of addressing Babson’s graduate Class of 2019 at this year’s Centennial Commencement, Akio Toyoda MBA’82, P’14 shares some of his favorite Babson memories and advice.

By Brianna Radicioni

May 6, 2019

Tagged Commencement, Centennial, Alumni, Graduate, Family Entrepreneurship

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Man at the Top of the T Babson graduate Steve Poftak has taken on arguably one of the toughest jobs in New England, but he is happy and humbled to be the MBTA’s new leader.

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.

April 23, 2019

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Alumni

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership