Tag: Faculty
The Frappuccino Funk: What’s Ailing Starbucks?
Sales at Starbucks are slumping. Babson Professor Gina O’Connor examines how the coffee giant lost its way and how it can find its way back.
February 19, 2025
Posted in Insights
2026-07-06 22:45:15
Flying Eyebrows and Soaring Mustaches: The Best (and Worst) of the Super Bowl Ads
Here’s what the marketing professors of Babson made of this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials.
February 11, 2025
Posted in Insights
2026-07-07 23:55:55
Babson Appoints Undheim, Davenport to Leadership Roles with Metropoulos Institute
Trond Undheim has been named the executive director and Tom Davenport the faculty director of the College’s new C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
February 5, 2025
Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership
2026-07-08 07:34:43
Leadership vs. Management: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know
What are the differences and nuances between being a leader and being a manager, particularly at a startup? Babson Professor Joseph Weintraub shares his thoughts.
February 4, 2025
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Insights
2026-07-07 23:55:55
I Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs Why It’s Good to Fail—Here’s How to Turn That Failure into Success
It’s important for all entrepreneurs to learn how to accept failure—it happens to everyone. Here’s how you can use it to promote success, writes Associate Professor Yasuhiro Yamakawa in an article from Entrepreneur magazine.
January 22, 2025
Posted in Insights
2026-07-02 07:37:20
Tackling the Big Changes in College Football
As a labor economist and a mom of a college football player, Megan Way P’26 is interested in the sport’s human costs. With the title game approaching, the Babson professor considers the state of big-time college football.
January 15, 2025
Posted in Insights
2026-07-07 22:41:01
