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A Lifetime of Entrepreneurship: Professor Les Charm ’64 Reflects on Babson’s Rise Associate Professor of Practice Les Charm, who is retiring after 36 years teaching entrepreneurship and finance at Babson, looks back on the College’s transformation to entrepreneurship powerhouse.
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May 15, 2026

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

2026-05-25 07:00:10
Meet the 2026 Summer Venture Program Teams  Babson’s signature Summer Venture Program (SVP) this year includes 13 teams of graduate and undergraduate students working across products, platforms, and services.
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May 13, 2026

Posted in Babson Briefs

2026-05-25 07:00:10
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Find What Drives You: Metropoulos Prepares Inspiring Message for Babson Undergraduates As he prepares his Commencement address, C. Dean Metropoulos ’67, MBA ’68 encourages graduates to stay curious, embrace change, and build meaningful careers in a fast-evolving world.
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May 11, 2026

Posted in Community

2026-05-24 15:16:28
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What Did It Take to Break the Sub-2-Hour Marathon Barrier? Entrepreneurial Thinking. Smashing the sub-2-hour marathon barrier required innovation. Adidas stepped up to the line to make it happen, teaching us many entrepreneurial lessons in the process.
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May 8, 2026

Posted in Insights

2026-05-25 07:34:37
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By Protecting Skiers, This Babson-Born Venture Scores on the Olympic Slopes At the recent Winter Olympics in Italy, the entire U.S. ski team, and more than 70% of alpine racers overall, wore a cut-resistant layer of Vix Protection, which was founded by Victor Wiacek ’22.
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May 7, 2026

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Outcomes

2026-05-24 20:39:18
Emily Weinberg ’27 and Skipit Recognized at eMerge America’s Startup Accelerator Four student- and alumni-startups represented Babson College at the eMerge Americas Conference + Expo, the premier technology conference in Miami.
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May 5, 2026

Posted in Babson Briefs

2026-05-24 19:33:37
The Bonds of Babson: Co-Founders In our Bonds of Babson series, we spotlight how alumni work together as co-founders, through the successes of Karim El-Gamal MBA’11 and Michael Kasseris MBA’11.
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April 8, 2026

Posted in Community

2026-05-25 08:27:15
Mike Salguero and Bobby Quirk pose for a portrait at the ButcherBox headquarters
The Bonds of Babson: Employers In our Bonds of Babson series, we spotlight how alumni hire and work with other alumni, through the collaboration of Mike Salguero MBA’10 hiring Bobby Quirk ’17 at ButcherBox.
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April 8, 2026

Posted in Community

2026-05-24 23:11:54
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LISTEN: Why Health Care Needs Entrepreneurial Leaders Now Errol Norwitz makes a bold case to train health care providers like entrepreneurs. In this episode of Babson’s podcast, “From Problems to Possibilities: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Action,” the Babson expert challenges the next generation of health care leaders to drive change.
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April 1, 2026

Posted in Babson Briefs

2026-05-25 08:27:15
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The GEM U.S. Report Asks: What Happens After a Startup Is Launched? The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s annual U.S. report shows that entrepreneurship remains strong, but GEM’s findings also reveal uncertainty, as the rate of established business ownership continues to decline.
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March 30, 2026

Posted in Insights

2026-05-25 09:53:48