« Babson Thought & Action
Entrepreneurial Leadership Insights Outcomes Community Babson Briefs
Subscribe to the Newsletter Babson Magazine
About Babson Events For the Media
Subscribe to the Newsletter
Babson Magazine »
Entrepreneurial Leadership Insights Outcomes Community Babson Briefs

Tag: Startups

Two smiling men on a golf course.
On Course for Success: How a Babson MBA Grad Built a Golf Charity Platform Eric Sedransk MBA’14 credits Babson College with giving him the confidence to build Member for a Day, a business that blends profit with a purpose.
By
May 6, 2026

Tagged Alumni, Graduate, Startups, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Outcomes

2026-05-14 01:25:17
Big Ideas Take Center Stage at Babson’s B.E.T.A. Challenge A record number of applicants and globally diverse finalists defined this year’s B.E.T.A. Challenge, where ventures ranged from clean energy to child literacy.
By
April 23, 2026

Tagged Entrepreneurship Education, Alumni, Undergraduate, Graduate, Startups, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

2026-05-14 06:14:13
Two people wearing matching black polos and caps with a red-and-white logo stand side by side in daylight in front of a white cab truck and a black box truck; one person has an arm around the other’s shoulder, and the black truck shows the logo and a partially visible phone number starting with “781.”
They’re Babson College Students—and Last Year, Their Business Made $3 Million Where else can you find a pair of student founders whose thriving business made $3 million while they pursued their undergraduate degrees? Meet Kirk McKinney ’26 and Jacob McKinney ’28, of Junk Teens.
By
April 23, 2026

Tagged Undergraduate, Campus, Entrepreneurship Education, Student Life, Startups, Advice

Posted in Community, Outcomes

2026-05-14 06:14:13
Woman speaks to large crowd gathered for Food Summit in airy room at Babson College.
Inside Babson’s First Food Summit: Where Food Entrepreneurs Connect Across the Ecosystem Featuring student founders and alumni leaders, Babson’s Food Summit explored the wide range of roles, from food science to CPG to supply, powering today’s food industry.
By
April 17, 2026

Tagged Advice, Alumni, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Faculty, Graduate, Startups, Undergraduate, Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

2026-05-13 18:55:42
The exterior of an Allbirds store in New York City
Valued at $4 Billion. Sold for $40 Million. This Is What Went Wrong with Allbirds. Allbirds was valued at $4 billion during its 2021 initial public offering. Five years later, it agreed to a sale for 99 percent less. Babson College Associate Professor of Practice Peter Cohan weighs in on what entrepreneurs can learn from what happened.
By
April 13, 2026

Tagged Advice, Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Startups

Posted in Insights

2026-05-13 14:42:31
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.
By
April 8, 2026

Tagged Alumni, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Education, Graduate, Startups, Babson Magazine

Posted in Community

2026-05-13 15:58:11
map of united states
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.
By
March 30, 2026

Tagged Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Entrepreneurship Education, Faculty, Research, Startups, Entrepreneurship

Posted in Insights

2026-05-13 10:42:49
Babson professor points to research findings during presentation.
Why Faculty Research Matters: Babson Scholars on AI, Markets, and Real-World Problems With discussions ranging from artificial intelligence to monetary policy and climate challenges, Faculty Research Day spotlighted the breadth of Babson’s interdisciplinary research.
By
February 6, 2026

Tagged Faculty, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups

Posted in Community, Insights

2026-05-13 18:56:18
Students walk on campus under a number one banner
Why Is Babson No. 1 for Entrepreneurship? Here Are 30 Reasons Entrepreneurship is everywhere at Babson College, which has been ranked the No. 1 school for entrepreneurship for the past three decades. But why? There are countless reasons; here are just 30.
By
January 23, 2026

Tagged Alumni, Campus, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Faculty, Graduate, Startups, Student Life, Undergraduate, Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Outcomes

2026-05-13 23:36:00
Gustavo Augusto Kopp de Lima ’28 stands next to a sign for the COP 30 climate change conference
A Babson Student Builds a Cycling Startup and Lands at COP 30  After a scary bike accident, Gustavo Augusto Kopp de Lima ’28 founded JoinBike, a platform seeking to connect cyclists in his native Brazil. Kopp recently spoke at the COP 30 climate change conference.
By
January 7, 2026

Tagged Entrepreneurial Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Undergraduate, Global

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

2026-05-14 01:30:25