Tag: Artificial Intelligence

The numbers 2026 in fireworks celebrate the new year.
New Year's Hopes: 6 Reasons to Be Optimistic in 2026 Babson faculty members share what they are most excited about in 2026—from AI and global learning to humanity, entrepreneurship, and personal growth.
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Hillary Chabot
Writer
Hillary Chabot
Hillary Chabot is a writer for Babson Thought & Action and Babson Magazine. An award-winning journalist, she is known for her insightful reporting and dedication to detailed storytelling. With a career spanning over two decades, she has covered a wide range of topics, from presidential campaigns and government policy to neighborhood issues and investigative series. As a reporter for The Boston Herald, Hillary earned a reputation for tenacity and integrity. Her work at Babson College fuels her passions—to learn something new every day and conduct thoughtful, empathic interviews. She’s thrilled to be at Babson College, where students, faculty, staff members and classes provide compelling copy daily.
January 5, 2026

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Composite of 10 photos from the 10 stories
Year in Review: Favorite Stories of 2025 Another year, another No. 2 ranking, another national championship. Amid all the accolades this year, here are 10 of our favorite stories of 2025.
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Eric Beato
Editor / Writer
Eric Beato
Eric Beato is the Editor of Babson Thought & Action and Babson Magazine. A native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Eric has worked as an editor and writer at newspapers across the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Boston Herald. Eric joined Babson College in 2019 after working as the communications director for a private educational travel company and as the managing editor of six regional sports publications.
December 26, 2025

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Aerial view of the Babson campus
Inside the Blank School’s Eight Centers and Institutes With its world-class centers and institutes, the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership continues to expand its impact and influence. Here’s a look at the Blank School’s eight centers and institutes.
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November 17, 2025

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Sitting at a table, a Babson student talks with two attendees of the AI Innovators Bootcamp
A Tech Bootcamp: Babson Trains Small Businesses on AI Babson’s AI Innovators Bootcamp offers small businesses a one-day dive into artificial intelligence, showing how it can foster innovation and improve how they run their organizations.
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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 12, 2025

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Talha Gulzar MBA’25 and Nada Hashmi Win Award for Research Paper at NEAIS Talha Gulzar MBA’25 and Associate Professor Nada Hashmi won the Best Student Paper Award at the New England Association for Information Systems conference.
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October 29, 2025

Posted in Babson Briefs

Babson ITSD Earns CIO 100 Award for Its ‘All-In’ AI Strategy For the second year in a row, Babson’s Information Technology Services Department has been named a CIO 100 Award winner, recognized for its AI leadership.
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March 24, 2025

Posted in Babson Briefs

An overview of the Weissman Foundry during the buildathon
How Student Teams Used AI to Tackle Real-World Problems at One-Day Buildathon  At the inaugural Generator-Microsoft Entrepreneurship & AI Buildathon, student teams from Babson, Olin, and Wellesley colleges collaborate and compete to identify transformative entrepreneurial opportunities enabled by artificial intelligence.
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December 12, 2024

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Donna Levin speaks to an audience from a podium
The GCEC Conference Brings Entrepreneurship Educators to Babson More than 700 entrepreneurship educators from around the world came to Babson for the annual Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference.
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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 21, 2024

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Kristi Girdharry, director of Babson's Writing Center, hosted writing instructors from more than 30 higher education institutions to discuss the impact of AI on writing and research. (Photo: Nic Czarnecki)
AI in Action: How Babson Students Use Technology to Transform Research and Business  Babson students discussed how AI transformed their academic and professional fields at a writing symposium hosted by Babson’s AI lab The Generator.
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Hillary Chabot
Writer
Hillary Chabot
Hillary Chabot is a writer for Babson Thought & Action and Babson Magazine. An award-winning journalist, she is known for her insightful reporting and dedication to detailed storytelling. With a career spanning over two decades, she has covered a wide range of topics, from presidential campaigns and government policy to neighborhood issues and investigative series. As a reporter for The Boston Herald, Hillary earned a reputation for tenacity and integrity. Her work at Babson College fuels her passions—to learn something new every day and conduct thoughtful, empathic interviews. She’s thrilled to be at Babson College, where students, faculty, staff members and classes provide compelling copy daily.
November 6, 2024

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Illustration of a person touching a futuristic screen
These Two Industries Are Paving the Path to Use AI Effectively You don’t have to work in retail or health care to learn from what they’re doing to leverage the power of artificial intelligence, writes professor Peter Cohan in an article from Entrepreneur magazine.
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October 25, 2024

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