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May 21, 2012 Babson PR Weekly News Report

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Reid Hoffman at Babson 2012 Commencement: Entrepreneurs are ...‎
BostInno – 5/19/12
Reid Hoffman took to the stage following Babson President Len Schlesinger, who told the students, “With the future unpredictable and rapid change as the norm, ...
Graduation brings in big business
New England Cable News, 5/19/12
Babson Commencement
 
Obama To Barnard Graduates: Don't Listen To Media (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - 5/15/2012
Reid Hoffman – Babson Commencement speaker
 
The Ticker‎
Boston Herald – 5/19/12
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Nike Foundation president Maria Eitel address Babson College graduates. TOMORROW. L Google executive chairman ...
 
Colleges announce commencement speakers‎
Inside Higher Ed – 5/15/12
Commencement Speakers Announced: American Public U., Babson, Benjamin ... Babson College: Reid Hoffman, executive chairman of LinkedIn and partner at ...
 
Nike Foundation, LinkedIn Leaders To Speak at Babson ...
Patch.com 5/18/12
The local business school brings in two successful entrepreneurs to speak at graduation.
 
The Facebook IPO Players Club: Reid Hoffman
Fast Company, 5/18/12
He'll also be making a commencement speech at Babson college, presumably sharing more of his wisdom about enterpreneurialship--
 
Budding entrepreneurs test ideas in contests‎
Boston Globe – 5/19/12
While Hoflich was at Babson (he graduated Saturday), the company landed its first big $8 ... Winning Babson's BETA Challenge (the acronym stands for Babson ...
 
Winning the competition for ideas
Boston Globe, 5/19/12
Babson College BETA Challenge
 
Act, learn, build: Lessons small business owners should take from serial entrepreneurs
Washington Post, 5/14/12
Column co-authored by President Schlesinger
 
To Develop Student Entrepreneurs, Colleges Incubate Their Ideas
Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/13/12
"Babson College has focused on entrepreneurship since before Mark Zuckerberg was born."
 
Executive Education - Customised – 2012
Financial Times - 5/14/20121. 
Executive Education ranked #13 custom
 
What small businesses can learn from a dot-com debacle
Slate - 5/14/2012
Professor Andrew Zacharakis, the author of five books on entrepreneurship and former chair of the entrepreneurship program at Babson College, says that by taking a slow approach, Siragusa seems to be doing it right this time. Small businesses ...
 
When you’re not even close to considering the sale of stock
Boston Business Journal, 5/18/12
Professor Caroline Daniels has launched three ventures over the past two decades, and she’s learned this from the experiences: Do as much as you can with your own resources.
 
For venture fund investors, bigger often isn’t better
Boston Business Journal, 5/18/12
The theme of the report: smaller is better. The report, authored by former VC and Babson College executive-in-residence Diane Mulcahy, says VC in general hasn’t been an investment success for Kauffman, noting that 62 out of 100 funds failed to give better returns than those available from the public markets.
 
The Bootstrapper's Dilemma: No Cash, No Customers
Inc, 5/28/12
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
Peace Corps Partners With Babson College‎
MarketWatch (press release) – 4/16/12
"The Peace Corps is delighted to partner with Babson College and help more Americans pair Peace Corps service with graduate school," said Peace Corps ...
 
How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
Atlantic Online - 5/15/2012
Column by Lecturer Yoni Appelbaum
 
Can You Lead in a Hoodie? Mark Zuckerberg Thinks So
Inside Fidelity - 5/16/2012
Allan Cohen, Professor of Management at Babson College and leadership expert, has studied this trend. "I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what it is that happens to people who get to the tops of organizations that then either believe they don't ...
 
Is Insider Trading Part of the Fabric?
New York Times - 5/20/12
Feinstein, an associate professor of finance at Babson College. Relying on public information, Mr. Feinstein had analyzed the price movements of stocks in 361 downgrades by Lehman analysts between 2004 and 2008.
 
Looking For A New Job? Entrepreneurial Companies Show the Way...
Forbes, 5/20/12
Column by Prof. Shulman
 
Financial Planning Association's National Capital Chapter to Host ...‎
MarketWatch (press release) – 5/17/12
Chris Hennessey, Faculty Director, Executive Education at Babson College and a Member of the Putnam Business Advisory Group, whose presentation is titled, ...
 
IEC Partners Opens the International Entrepreneurship Center‎
PR Web (press release) – 5/18/12
Co-founder Bob Caspe, a serial entrepreneur and adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College's MBA program, noted, “The IEC has a distinctive ...
 
Dogs work hard to comfort Boston-area college students facing stress
Boston.com, 5/16/12
The team visits three rehab and hospital facilities per week in addition to various de-stress events throughout the year at Massachusetts colleges including Boston University, Boston College Law, Tufts, and Babson.
 
Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age
Fast Company - 5/16/2012
But even in its own Boston backyard, HBS tends to be overshadowed on entrepreneurship by schools like MIT Sloan School of Management and Babson. Raj Kapoor, Managing Director at Mayfield Fund on Sand Hill …
 
Two Texas schools rank among top 10 of college entrepreneurship ...
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog) – 5/14/12
Babson College near Boston led the list. Two of the seven Texas schools on the entrepreneurship ranking -- the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M ...
 
Higher Education Goes Hipster: A Look at 10 of Greater Boston’s Colleges on Instagram [Images]
BostInno, 5/15/12
Babson among the featured colleges
 
High Impact Entrepreneurship: Following the Entrepreneurial Process
Forbes, 5/15/12
Column by Prof. Zacharakis
 
Giving Voice To Value
50 Plus 20, 5/15/12
Mary Gentile program
 
Babson College Adjunct Professor Leads Replication Strategy of NJ Nonprofit
PR-USA.net - 5/17/2012
The 32nd annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), co-sponsored by the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, will be held June 6-9, 2012, on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Michael Caslin …
 
Elon names Raghu Tadepalli new business school dean‎
Triad Business Journal – 5/19/12
At Babson, Tadepalli oversaw a major overhaul of the MBA curriculum and has also contributed to many peer-reviewed journals in the areas of cross-cultural ...

Hoosiers Among Top Inner City Companies
Inside Indiana Business - 5/14/2012
Winners attended a two-day small business symposium featuring executive education case studies and how-to workshops from leading content providers, including Harvard Business School, Babson College
 
Murdoch's low corporate standards
Providence Journal, 5/18/12
Column by Amit Mukherjee
 
Create, Organize, Execute on Big Data: Book Tells How
Yahoo Finance - 5/20/12
From the Foreword by Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson College, cofounder and Research Director, International Institute for Analytics
 
How Did Wal-Mart Crack Open China?
Forbes - 5/18/2012
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
Facebook's Busted IPO Sends a Message to Wall Street
Forbes - 5/18/2012
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
Is Facebook Moving Back to Massachusetts?
Forbes, 5/17/12
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
GM to Facebook: I’ll Waste My $10 Million Elsewhere
Forbes, 5/16/12
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
SoFi’s Mike Cagney Wants to Fix Student Loans
Forbes, 5/15/12
Column by Adjunct Peter Cohan
 
Panel: Charlotte has future as data hub
Winston-Salem Journal - 5/19/12
"It's hard for me to see how this could go away," Tom Davenport, chairman of information technology and management at Babson College in Massachusetts, said at a conference last week sponsored by UNCC and the Charlotte Chamber. "All we do is …
 
What The Wire can teach us about entrepreneurship
Daily Maverick, 5/18/12
So why, then, do high crime levels and successful entrepreneurship end up being mutually exclusive? In the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) ...
 
NZ On Air releases original pitch for show that became The GC
National Business Review, 5/18/12
The 2006 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report identified a strong entrepreneurial streak in Maori. In that year, Maori represented 17.7 per cent of all ...

Why SA is failing small businesses
Moneyweb.co.za, 5/16/12
The 2011 Global Entrepreneurs Monitor (GEM) report, released in Cape Town on Tuesday, shows that many established businesses are missing the boat when it ...

Analysis: The youth wage subsidy should not go the way of the ...
Daily Maverick, 5/16/12
As identified consistently in UCT's global entrepreneurship monitor, South Africa has too few small, medium and micro enterprises and too few of them employ ...
 
High Impact Entrepreneurship: Following the Entrepreneurial Process
Forbes, 5/15/12
Babson College, along with London Business School, launched the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 1999 to help answer this very question.
 
Indonesian Minister: 'We need four million entrepreneurs'
Forbes, 5/15/12
Indonesians are far less likely to want to start a their own business, he said, based on a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor study that said 14.5 percent of ...
 
Slovenia- a gateway to innovation?
Public Service, 5/14/12
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2010 lists the Slovenian economy as innovation-driven, and based on a survey, the attitude towards innovation and ...
 
The First UK Guide to Finance for Women in Business
SourceWire, 5/14/12
But a body of research shows that this burst of female entrepreneurship is likely ... than men (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, London Business School, 2006)
 
ALUMNI
 
Out in the Ecosystem: Bill Allard of Athletes' Performance‎
Boston.com (blog) – 5/18/12
A South Shore resident, Babson graduate, and Harvard Business School alum, Bill has significant ties to both the Boston area. His connection to the world of ...
 
 
MITEF DEMO Spring 2012
MITEnterpriseForum, 4/28/12
MBA biz Gliph
 
RunKeeper founder Jason Jacobs to entrepreneurs: My biggest regret was not having the confidence to get going earlier [Audio]
Boston.com, 5/15/12
MBA alum Jason Jacobs
 
Greenlight Re Appoints Drake as VP-Business Development
Insurance Journal - 5/14/2012
Drake is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate of Reinsurance (ARe). He also holds a Bachelors Degree from Union College, and is an MBA candidate at Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
 
People on the move
Rutland Herald - 5/15/2012
Moriarty earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Vermont, where she received the Outstanding Senior Woman award, and graduated with distinction from Babson College with a Masters in Business Administration in …
 
Leading Industry Analyst for Financial Services Cybercrime Prevention Joins Trusteer
TMCnet - 5/16/2012
Mr. Tubin received an MBA from Babson College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Having spent the last decade as an industry analyst for the financial services industry, I am excited to join ...
 
 
SPORTS
 
Babson softball team leans on couple of Mainers to lead‎
Press Herald – 5/17/12
Scarborough's Catie Funk and Kennebunk's Kelly King provide Babson with hopes for next year.
 
MISC
Guest MINDSETTER™ Patrick Crowley: The Trouble With Ranking ...‎
GoLocalProv – 5/14/12
I'm sure the good folks at Babson College who developed the criteria for the ... One need simply review the splash page for the Babson College website
 
CHS ranked 34th of 51 Rhode Island high schools‎
Valley Breeze – 5/17/12
The methodology used, which was calculated by Babson College students in Massachusetts, put Cumberland at 34th out of 51 in the state, with only Providence, ...
 
Pan-Mass Challenge adds finish area at Patriot Place
Sun Chronicle - 5/20/12
The Patriots have sponsored a 125-member team in the PMC for the last four years. The newest of the 11 PMC routes - a 25-mile, Sunday ride that starts at Babson College in Wellesley - will finish at Patriot Place. The site also will serve as a ...