Tag: Women’s Leadership
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‘This Girl Is on Fire’: A New Partnership with Frank & Eileen to Empower Women Entrepreneurs »
On International Women’s Day, Babson rebrands the Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership with a transformational investment from Audrey McLoghlin, founder and CEO of clothing brand Frank & Eileen™.
From Secretary to CEO: For Jan Singer, One Call Changed it All »
At an on-campus event with Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL), former Victoria’s Secret and Spanx CEO Jan Singer zeroed in on our underestimated and undervalued ability to choose, to take control, and to change our perspectives about what it means to go to work.
Fulbright and the Pursuit of Global Citizenship »
Julia Dean ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to improve access to entrepreneurship education in South Korea. She is the latest in a line of Babson students who have decided to take advantage of their opportunities to better the lives of others around the world.
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Marla Capozzi, Urges Students to Never Stop Learning »
Fundamentally, academia and business are two very different industries. Babson student Jess Chartier ’20 sat down with Babson Board of Trustees Chair Marla Capozzi MBA’96 to discuss the differences and similarities of leading a college and a management consulting firm at the same time.
Entrepreneurship in Her Family Dates Back to 1844. Today, Cathy Hughes Runs the Largest Black-Owned Broadcast Company in the Nation »
At the 21st annual Black Affinity Network Conference, the Babson community awarded Cathy Hughes with a Pioneer Award for her unique contributions in changing the entertainment industry.
For the Mayor of Parkland, Entrepreneurship Makes All the Difference »
If you ask Christine Hunschofsky MBA’96, mayor of Parkland, Florida, how she landed in the public sector, she’ll tell you she just kind of fell into it. But the entrepreneurial mindset she developed at Babson helped prepare her for the job.
How Coca-Cola is Leading Women’s Empowerment in the Developing World »
What does it mean to empower women? For the Coca-Cola Company, women’s empowerment takes form in 5by20, a global initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs across the company’s value chain by 2020.
Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo’s Advice for Entrepreneurial Women »
In the early 2000s, the Yellow Pages just weren’t cutting it. At least not for Sheila Lirio Marcelo, who was struggling to find care for her newborn child and her ailing father. Her struggle to find suitable care inspired her to develop a better solution for families everywhere.
Investing in Women: A Conversation with Tory Burch »
If net worth were measured in shoes, today Tory Burch is worth more than 4 million of her signature Reva ballet flats. Is there a secret to her success? In retrospect, she says it’s scary to think how little she knew at the outset, but her motivation to challenge herself and be open to new experiences has never wavered.
