Tag: Inclusive Excellence

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Professional Attire Fund Empowers Students to Dress for Success Fulfilling a request from students, a new professional attire fund, available through the Hoffman Family Undergraduate Center for Career Development, aims to empower tomorrow’s leaders.
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Hillary Chabot
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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.
October 25, 2023

Posted in Community

Jerry Epps Earns Honors for Supplier Diversity Leadership Jerry Epps, Babson College’s first director of vendor diversity, has received a pair of prestigious recognitions this month for his work and leadership in supplier diversity.
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September 13, 2023

Posted in Babson Briefs

Babson professor Danna Greenberg interacts with a student.
Managing Motherhood: How to Help New Moms in the Workplace Managers have an opportunity to help expectant mothers even before employees go on parental leave, Babson Professor Danna Greenberg said.
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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.
August 16, 2023

Posted in Insights, Outcomes

Side-by-side photos of a Barbie doll and a Corage doll named Aaliya
Four Barbie Summer Fails and a Diversity Win As Barbie Summer dominates pop culture. Flora Ekpe-Idang MBA’17, who created a multicultural doll, details the doll’s diversity issues.
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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.
August 9, 2023

Posted in Insights

Babson Chief of Police Erin Carcia at Boston Police Department event to increase women working in law enforcement.
Boosting the Number of Women in Law Enforcement Babson Chief of Police Erin Carcia serves as an inspiring example and key advocate in advancing an ambitious project to grow the number of women in law enforcement across the country.
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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.
August 2, 2023

Posted in Community, Outcomes

Akhil Nair MBA'18, a former Global Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College, with the program's director Cindy Klein Marmer and another volunteer.
Babson’s Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program Returns Akhil Nair MBA’18 grew his venture and mentored Babson students in the Global Entrepreneur in Residence program, which restarted this year after a four-year hiatus.
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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.
July 18, 2023

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Aaron Walton ’83 Inducted into American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Fame Aaron Walton ’83, the trailblazing marketing executive and industry leader, was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Fame this spring for his innovative work at Walton Issacson marketing agency.
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July 17, 2023

Posted in Babson Briefs

Babson Financial Literacy Project Awarded Grant for HBCU Workshops The Babson Financial Literacy Project has been awarded a $103,000 Nasdaq Foundation Grant to bring financial literacy workshops to Historically Black Colleges & Universities.
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June 28, 2023

Posted in Babson Briefs

A Babson alumnus speaks at a real estate convention.
Taking Pride in Babson for Pride Month Jacob Miles ’98 reflects on the importance of Babson’s extended family and support for LGBTQ students and alumni.
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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.
June 27, 2023

Posted in Community

Portrait of Kellie Carter Jackson
Babson Celebrates the Joy of Juneteenth Babson’s Juneteenth celebration took time to look to the past, but it also focused on the joys of the present and the work still to do in the future.
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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 16, 2023

Posted in Community