Tag: Faculty

What Is a Stimulus Package?
What Is a Stimulus Package? A Conversation with Professor Megan Way You’ve heard about it a lot this year, but, what is a stimulus package? Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Division Megan Way provides some answers.
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Bryan Lipiner
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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.
July 30, 2020

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We Need Innovation in Leadership. Here’s How to Teach It. Babson Professor Sebastian Fixson knows that innovation in leadership is teachable. He explains why, and shows us how to teach innovation to college students.
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July 27, 2020

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Insights

Professor Dessislava Pachamanova
Bridging Business and Health Care to the Benefit of Students By challenging students with real problems exposed through research, Dessislava Pachamanova provides an opportunity to study complexities of a crisis.
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Bryan Lipiner
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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.
July 20, 2020

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Community Forums
Community Forums Bring Babson Together for Return to Campus Updates Over the course of three days, more than 1,300 Babson community members gathered virtually for community forums focused on the College’s return to campus plan.
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July 20, 2020

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Marching for Black Lives Matter in Washington, D.C.
Hitting the Streets for Black Lives Matter In the classroom, Professor Fred Opie talks about the organization needed to sustain social movements. Marching for Black Lives Matter, a former student saw that need firsthand.
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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.
June 25, 2020

Posted in Community, Insights

Richard Bliss
Office Hours: Opportunity Knocking Professor of Finance Richard Bliss, Babson’s first Posse mentor, serves as the national academic director for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
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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.
June 23, 2020

Posted in Community

Babson Celebrates Juneteenth
Babson Celebrates Juneteenth During Historic Black Lives Matter Movement The Babson community came together to celebrate the commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S. and to unite in action toward a more inclusive society.
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June 22, 2020

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Tina Opie
From the Ground Up: New Faculty Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion A new faculty committee will take a hard look at training, teaching, and interacting at Babson with a goal of integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do.
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June 19, 2020

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Sports without fans will have a significant effect on sports analytics, says Professor Rick Cleary.
How a Different View of Sports Will Present a New Way to Learn Sports leagues are nearing restarts with a different look. According to Professor Rick Cleary, these new variances present an optimal opportunity to learn.
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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.
June 17, 2020

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Resilient Leadership
Why Resilience Is Important for Entrepreneurial Leaders Babson Associate Professor Scott Taylor shows how relationships and positive emotion lead to resilience, and why that’s important.
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June 11, 2020

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