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Five Regions, Five Days: Entrepreneurial Leadership Everywhere Featuring an impressive list of esteemed speakers, the sixth edition of Babson Connect: Worldwide takes the College community around the world in five days.

By 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.

March 29, 2021

Tagged Alumni, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Family Entrepreneurship, Household Names, Social Innovation, VC & Investing

Posted in Community

Compilation of Sarah Girouard and Eric Girouard each holding products from their companies

The Pandemic Sparks an Entrepreneurial Boom The tumult of the past year has not scared away entrepreneurs from pursuing their startups. On the contrary, entrepreneurial activity has seen a sharp uptick.

By 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.

March 5, 2021

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Women-Led Entrepreneurship, Alumni, Faculty, Startups, Family Entrepreneurship

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Insights

5 Things the Next Gen Should Do When Joining a Family Business How can a next-generation leader successfully enter the family business? Lauri Union of the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship interviewed Babson alumni to find out.

By Carmen Suen

November 25, 2020

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Company Culture, Family Entrepreneurship, Global, Leadership

Posted in Insights

Family entrepreneurs meet at IFE in 2019

Why Family Entrepreneurship is the New Family Business Many think of family businesses as passed down from one generation to the next. Findings from the first ever Family Entrepreneurship Report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) debunk that assumption.

By Lauri Union

November 13, 2020

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Career, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Entrepreneurship Finds Roots in Families, Reveals GEM Report Worldwide, 75% of entrepreneurs and 81% of established business owners are entrepreneurs, co-owning or managing their businesses with family members.

By Alexandra Dunk

October 26, 2020

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Alumni, Social Innovation

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Babson, Family Foundation Partner to Build Economic Inclusion for All Angeli Tarsadia Reddy ’09 and her family foundation have partnered with a Babson-led venture to uplift underserved populations from financial fragility.

By Brianna Radicioni

October 7, 2020

Tagged Alumni, Faculty, Family Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit, Social Innovation, Women's Leadership

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Power of the Entrepreneurial Family Running her family business taught Lauri Union the power of family entrepreneurship. Now, she is working to strengthen entrepreneurial families at Babson.

By 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.

, Shannon Sweeny Curran

September 16, 2020

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Faculty

Posted in Community

Babson College has set out to galvanize budding entrepreneurs around the world through its new summer programs

Ready to Entrepreneur, Young Students Spend Summer with Babson The time for innovation is now. Babson has set out to galvanize budding entrepreneurs around the world through its new, virtual summer programs.

By 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 18, 2020

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Entrepreneurship Education, Family Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Sustainability, Women's Leadership

Posted in Community

The Joy of the Jigsaw Puzzle White Mountain Puzzles, co-owned by Colin Wroblewski ’03, has seen a spike in sales as people seek an uplift from an unlikely source: jigsaw puzzles.

By 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.

May 29, 2020

Tagged Alumni, Family Entrepreneurship

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

To Fill a Drastic Need The family manufacturing firm of Matthew Boyd MBA’07 is shifting production to make urgently needed medical masks. “We feel an obligation to help,” says Boyd.

By 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.

April 7, 2020

Tagged Alumni, Babson Heroes, Family Entrepreneurship

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