Babson In The News, produced by the Babson Public Relations Office, contains some of the active online articles concerning Babson and/or Babson community members that appeared in May.
Busy Students Get Ahead By Staying Home
Jobfind.com, MA, 5/8/05
Babson Fast Track students earn MBA degree online
Financial Times Ranks Babson Executive Education One of the Top Programs In The World
Yahoo Finance.com, CA, 5/16/05
Babson's custom and open enrollment programs continue upward rise
Alumnus, Wife Give $20m To Babson College
Boston Globe.com, MA, 5/17/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Babson College Receives $20 Million, Unrestricted Gift
Philanthropy News Digest.com, 5/22/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Babson Receives School's Largest-Ever Gift From Individual Donor
Boston.com, MA, 5/16/05
WRGB.com, NY, 5/16/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Babson College Receives $20 Million Gift
Yahoo UK & Ireland.com, UK, 5/18/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Robert Weissman, Wife Give $20M To Babson College
Boston Business Journal.com, MA, 5/16/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Babson Is $20M Richer
MetroWest Daily News.com, MA, 5/17/05
Gift from Robert and Jan Weissman
Getting Serious About Studying Abroad
BusinessWeek Online, NY, 5/10/05
Many schools, including Babson, have made international experiences a mandatory part of the full-time MBA curriculum
Siemens: Taking Action in Management Development
Chief Learning Officer.com, 5/01/05
This modality was chosen mainly because it relies on learning in the real business world with a focus on results and achievement, but it can be supported by teaching from business school professors, such as those from Babson College, which is known for its instruction and research in corporate entrepreneurship
MBA Graduates Take Entrepreneurial Plunge
CollegeJournal.com, NY, 5/25/05
Christi Andersen counted on family encouragement when launching a company with a fellow 2004 graduate of Babson
Gauging Guidant's Hiring Pulse
BusinessWeek Online, NY, 5/3/05
Babson is among the colleges where Guidant recruits
Death To The Cubicle
Fast Company.com, NY, 5/29/05
Prof. Tom Davenport on knowledge-worker productivity
Meet The Mompreneurs
Time.com, NY, 5/05
Prof. Nan Langowitz on mothers/entrepreneurs
NYSE Liquidity
Marketplace radio.org, CA, 5/9/05
Prof. Michael Goldstein on planned merger between the New York Stock Exchange and the electronic trading firm Archipelago
Former President Bush Keynotes Business Conference on Leadership and Innovation
Yahoo Finance.com, CA, 5/17/05
Prof. Tom Davenport is among the speakers
B-Schools' Learning Curve On Parenting
Yahoo UK biz.com, UK, 5/5/05
Prof. Nan Langowitz on mothers and B-school
Cultivating Biz Whizzes
BusinessWeek Online, NY, 5/19/05
Yahoo Finance.com, CA, 5/19/05
Yahoo Business UK & Ireland.com, UK, 5/19/05
Stephen Spinelli, vice-provost for entrepreneurship and a former NFTE board member, on young entrepreneurs
Quotable & Notable
National Catholic Reporter.com, 5/31/05
Babson’s Tom Sullivan on religion in the workplace
Faith At Work
Longview Daily News.com, WA, 5/28/05
The Register-Guard.com, Oregon, 5/28/05
Babson’s Tom Sullivan on religion in the workplace
Buzz Of The Week
VC Experts.com, 5/31/05
Babson/LBS GEM research on entrepreneurship
One Million E-Books Worth Almost Ten Million Dollars To Be Donated
Emediawire.com, WA, 5/27/05
PR Web.com, WA, 5/27/05
Babson’s GEM research
Mother And Dauther Are Quite A Team
Litchfield Enquirer.com, CT, 5/20/05
Ugrad Megan Harpin owns and operates a spa with business partner -- her mother
Like Father, Like Son
Utica Observer-Dispatch.com, NY, 5/22/05
Prof. Tim Habbershon on family biz
Decline In Immigration Could Bring 'Brain Drain'
MetroWest Daily News.com, MA, 5/28/05
Karen Zuffante Pabon, manager of International Student & Scholar Services, comments on decrease in international students
Babson College Professor Allan Cohen Named Fellow of TIAA-CREF
Ascribe.com, 5/26/05
New position for Prof. Allan Cohen
What’s Behind Predatory Lending? Too Much Capital, Too Much Debt
People's Weekly World.com, 5/26/05
Why the recent push on predatory lending? “The country is literally awash in capital,” Babson management professor JM Stengrevics has written
Transat Deck Log Day 3: Nordwind Leading Classics
YBW.com, 5/25/05
Felix Happel, who just finished exams at Babson College a week ago, is aboard Nordwind in the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge
Hub Becomes A Town Of Gowns As Graduation Season Arrives
Boston Herald.com, MA, 5/22/05
Twins sisters who roomed together for four years at Babson College and were voted ``most inseparable duo'' were together yesterday during another milestone, both graduating with a bachelor's degree in marketing
The Future's So Bright ... Grads Can Expect Better Job Market
MetroWest Daily News.com, MA, 5/22/05
Grads find improving job market, according to Megan Houlker, associate director for Center for Career Development
Bentley, Wheaton And Babson Commencements Held
Boston.com, MA, 5/21/05
At Babson College in Wellesley, Ellyn A. McColgan, the president of Fidelity Brokerage Company, told the college's graduate school to become "leaders that people can respect and follow."
Centurion's Grano & Fidelity's McColgan To Speak At Babson
Yahoo Biz.com, CA, 5/6/05
Commencement speakers
Commencement
Boston Globe.com, MA, 5/22/05
Babson commencement info
Lifeprints Wins Babson College MBA Business Plan Competition
Forbes.com, NY, 5/20/05
MBA biz takes top honors at Babson biz plan competition
Toward a Transparent Classroom
Inside Higher Ed.com, DC, 5/17/05
The challenge of Internet-based transparency was brought home to me the other day in a Babson College business school lecture hall
Job Prospects Brighten For New MBAs: Placement Levels Rise As Recruiters Return En Masse
Boston Business Journal.com, MA, 5/16/05
Babson is among the local MBA programs profiled
Babson's First Fulbright Scholar Will Assist South African Entrepreneurs
Quote.com/Lycos.com, MA, 5/13/05
Senior Julian Simcock has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, the first at the top-ranked school for entrepreneurship
Businesses Benefit From A Low-Key Spirituality
Science & Theology News.com, MA, 5/11/05
At a Babson symposium, businesspeople discussed the importance of integrating spirituality with business
A Launching Pad For Women
Daily News Tribune.com, MA, 5/12/05
Strategic women attend all-women conferences because they are impacted by business issues in a different way, according to Janelle Shubert, CWL associate director
Commonwealth Capital Advisors And CCA International Have Joined Forces to Help Educate the Global Entrepreneurial Community
Canada NewsWire, Canada, 5/12/05
Directed by London Business School and Babson College, the GEM report is the largest annual measure of entrepreneurial activity worldwide, spanning 34 countries
Babson Lands $200k Grant Toward Math Curriculum
Boston Business Journal.com, MA, 5/10/05
Babson received a two-year $200,000 grant to be used toward its math curriculum from the Davis Educational Foundation
Thousands Tune Into Podcasts
The Boston Channel.com, MA, 5/9/05
WCVB – TV5, MA, 5/9/05
Digital Media Manager CC Chapman on podcasting
Make Commitment To Control Children’s Viewing
Wisconsin Rapids.com, WI, 5/10/05
To ask ourselves five questions developed by Renee Hobbs, (former) Professor of communications at Babson
The Need To Fine Tune And Enhance Business Skills
Malaysia Star.com, Malaysia, 5/9/06
Studies done by the Babson College/Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) have revealed that the process of selective nurturing (ie “picking winners”)
Executives See Business Intelligence Emerging As Crucial Competitive Advantage
CRM Today, 5/3/05
According to a new study by the director of research for Babson Executive Education (BEE) at Babson
Movers And Shakers: Staples Supports Education
MetroWest Daily News.com, MA, 5/2/05
Babson is among the recipients of a grant from the staples Foundation for Learning Inc
