The three regional Institutes at Babson build and maintain partnerships with other leading institutions around the world to enable an exchange of knowledge and experience. Working with partners, they forge connections, create content, and share Babson’s expert capabilities.

Connections

• The Asia Institute at Babson (AIB), founded in 2000, works with institutions in the Pacific-Rim including China, India, and Thailand;
• The Europe Institute, founded in 2002, works primarily with universities in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Ireland; and,
• The Institute for Latin American Business (ILAB), founded in 1998, works primarily with Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

Content

Through their established networks, the Institutes foster research and case writing collaborations. Many of Babson’s partner institutions are participants in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Project, the world’s largest and longest standing globally focused entrepreneurship research project. GEM was founded by and continues to be led by Babson in partnership with London Business School. International partners are also involved with another Babson-led research project, the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) project which explores the entrepreneurial process within family businesses and practices for building legacies of social and economic wealth across generations. The Glavin Council of Chairs, composed of six endowed faculty positions, provides leadership and awards grants to Babson faculty for international research. This research can be conducted with partner institutions.

Capabilities

The Institutes regularly share Babson’s expertise in curriculum development and teaching with their partners. Babson faculty and administrators deliver advising services, particularly around developing entrepreneurship programs, and serve as keynote speakers and guest lectures in conferences, seminars, and classroom discussions at partner institutions. The Institutes facilitate custom Babson Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators’ (SEE) programs throughout the world to train academics and entrepreneurs how to teach entrepreneurship “the Babson way” (combining theory and practice). In addition to training fellow professors and lecturers, Babson faculty members provide curriculum and learning opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at our partner schools and they work with Babson Executive Education to create and deliver custom programs to corporations all over the world.

Through their connections and collaborations, the Institutes bring a global orientation back into Babson classrooms. Among other things, they arrange for visiting scholars from partner schools, incorporate international teaching cases into the curriculum, and work with Global Program Services to facilitate international exchange programs.