Tag: Global

Jacob Fohtung

One Student’s Quest to Transform Africa Jacob Fohtung MBA’19, MS’20 is using his Babson degrees to move him closer to his ultimate goal of transforming the continent of Africa.

By Karl Klaussen

July 23, 2019

Tagged Graduate, Social Innovation, Global

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Jennifer Bailey and students

Babson Educators Influence Future Leaders, Scholars Babson’s faculty and thought leaders continue to inspire and influence through conferences, academic studies, and women’s leadership organizations.

By Bryan Lipiner

July 18, 2019

Tagged Advice, Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Global, Leadership, Research, Women's Leadership

Posted in Insights

Scale Up Xela

In Guatemala, Scale Up Brings New Opportunity to a Troubled Triangle It’s easy to imagine Guatemala as a region beset exclusively by failure and despair. But Scale Up Xela is changing that conversation by accelerating the pace of growth of dozens of local firms.

By Daniel Isenberg

July 16, 2019

Tagged Global, Faculty, Entrepreneurship Education

Posted in Insights

Delegates at Babson's Visitor and Opportunity Management program

For International Delegations, A Chance to Learn Entrepreneurship from Nation’s Best In the last year, Babson has hosted more than 35 delegations from 20 countries for sessions on entrepreneurship education.

By Bryan Lipiner

July 2, 2019

Tagged Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Global

Posted in Community, Insights

Donna Kelley at the United Nations

Let’s Focus on Those Who Want to Start a Business, But Aren’t Making entrepreneurship accessible to all is not just the right thing to do, it’s good for society, says Babson Professor Donna Kelley.

By Brianna Radicioni

June 27, 2019

Tagged Advice, Commentary, Faculty, Global, Research

Posted in Community, Insights

Crossroads Manhattan

In Elective Away, Students Explore Manhattan’s LGBTQ History In Babson’s first elective away, students explored locations where diverse groups of marginalized people—including LGBTQ groups—intersected and collaborated to create their own freedom.

By Michelle Monti

June 19, 2019

Tagged Undergraduate, Global

Posted in Community

Students Get Hands On to Scale a Lean Venture Students gain real-world operational growth and management experience, both at Babson and in Boston on one of the city’s highest-traffic weekends.

By Bryan Lipiner

June 7, 2019

Tagged Career, Corporate Innovation, Entrepreneurship Education, Global, Student Life

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Educators Become Students, So Students Can Become Entrepreneurs With the Babson Fellows Program, the Lycoming College entrepreneurship chair was able to turn his own program into one of the most popular on campus.

By Bryan Lipiner

May 31, 2019

Tagged Career, Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Global, Mentoring & Networking

Posted in Community, Insights

Rodrigo Riviello

‘Some of You Have Already Changed the World’ Graduate Commencement student speaker Rodrigo Riviello MBA’19 applauded his classmates for all they’ve already accomplished, and encouraged them to lean on the Babson network, no matter the cause.

By Brianna Radicioni

May 23, 2019

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Centennial, Commencement, Global, Graduate

Posted in Community

Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, a Glavin Global Fellow Learns to Look Up Babson’s Glavin Global Fellows pursue projects around the world. Austin Yang ’19 came to Hong Kong to learn about the city’s often overlooked poor residents.

By John Crawford

May 1, 2019

Tagged Global, Undergraduate

Posted in Community