Tag: Family Entrepreneurship

Babson’s commitment to family entrepreneurs recognizes that families, not just family businesses, drive entrepreneurial behavior. This includes the support of family foundations, startups supported by families, spousal startups, entrepreneurial family members embarking on separate ventures, and many other value-creating, family activities.

Professor William Gartner
How Will I Create the Future? Professor William Gartner, of Babson College’s Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, has been studying entrepreneurs for decades. “I can’t think of any other group of people I’d rather be with,” he says.
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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.
November 8, 2019

Posted in Community, Insights

Entrepreneurial families
Supporting Past, Current, and Future Generations of Entrepreneurial Families A $2 million gift from Charlie Nulsen ’79 and JoAnn Kocum Nulsen ’81 will endow the Executive Directorship position at the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, enabling the best in leadership and experiential programming for students and their entrepreneurial families.
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October 29, 2019

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STEP family business survey
Millennial CEOs Ready to Lead Family Businesses Longer life expectancy combined with changing expectations are putting strain on business families as they adapt in today's evolving landscape.
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October 25, 2019

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Adriana and Gustavo Cisneros
The Next Generation Two generations of the Cisneros family business shared their take on succession planning and more during Babson Connect: Worldwide.
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October 18, 2019

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Marc Camus and Cyril Camus '91
A Family Affair Parents and Teens attending The Entrepreneurial Family, a program of Babson Executive Education, learn about entrepreneurial thinking, as well as each other.
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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.
August 16, 2019

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Tariq and Somia Farid
How 25-year-old Somia Farid is Making Her Mark on Edible Arrangements How exactly does a 25-year-old successfully step into the role of Vice President and General Manager of the family business?
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August 9, 2019

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Barber Family
One Family’s Non-Linear Family Entrepreneurship Journey For three generations, the Barber family has evolved their business from a small butcher shop to a national food industry leader.
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July 18, 2019

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Babson College Amplifier Course
Amplifying Family Business For students thinking about entering their family’s business, the Amplifier program prepares them for a future position.
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July 9, 2019

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Tufankjian family
When Babson, and Business, Run in the Family For this family, a Babson education and starting your own business spans two generations.
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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 21, 2019

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Akio Toyoda Babson
Toyoda Encourages Graduates to Be Warm; Find Joy in Life Babson alumnus Akio Toyoda MBA’82, P’14 spoke from the heart to inspire graduate students and their families at Saturday’s Centennial Commencement.
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May 21, 2019

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