This Intensity Track was designed to extend your learning beyond the classroom. You'll gain real-world experience and competencies in creating social impact in any sector and role. You can also connect to expanded resources and networks that are valuable in driving social innovation throughout your career.
This shows us your interest and allows us to reach out to you with opportunities or events that may interest you. Students should complete the online application as soon as they’ve decided to pursue the Business & Social Innovation Intensity Track.
This is an experience that you must work on while a Babson student. It could be an experience you create (to be approved by Institute for Social Innovation), an Inventureship, Babson Board Fellows program, Turner MIINT program, or a course taught by the Institute for Social Innovation (Leading for Social Value or Social Innovation Design Studio)
The Institute for Social Innovation is the academic partner for Meaningful Business 100 (MB100). To deepen your understanding about leading social innovation, you will interview a MB100 leader or other accepted social impact leader. Once you’ve decided on who you would like to interview, email socialinnovation@babson.edu and we will introduce you to Meaningful Business directly. Please use this opportunity to explore your passions and interests. Interview format is 30-minute Q&A, recorded. The interview details are to be shared with the Institute, and the recording will be shared with other students for shared learning. This can also be a live fireside or virutal chat that is shared with others—you decide and we will support you. Questions you might touch on:
Attend three Institute for Social Innovation events during your time as a student. We call these Uncommon Tables because it’s about a conversation, meaningful exchange, and understanding learning goes beyond lecture. Uncommon Tables include our weekly Changemaker Connect sessions, guest speaker fireside chats, or an Ideas in Motion session. Intensity Track monthly meetings are acceptable, as well.
Read Project ROI and Corporate Social Innovation. Write a one-page reflection answering the questions:
Questions about the Business & Social Innovation Intensity Track? Email Jen MacDonald.
Being affiliated with the Institute for Social Innovation, as well as pursuing this intensity track, was the human portion of my graduate studies. In a lot of classes, you learn about theories and formulas. But in this Intensity Track, you learn about interacting with people and solving problems. At the end of the day, that’s what life and business should be about.
Students who have successfully completed the intensity track requirements can use the "Business and Social Innovation Intensity Track" qualification on their résumés, LinkedIn profiles, and other personal and professional documents. Students and alumni can work with Grad CCD and the Institute for Social Innovation to communicate this intentional focus more broadly.
When I decided to do an MBA abroad, I had this feeling that I needed to use my skills and knowledge in a more impactful way. Here, I developed that confidence. Most important of all, what this Intensity Track means for me is being part of a community of great peers, classmates, faculty, entrepreneurs, and like-minded people who are really authentic and have no fear of following their passion.
- Antonio Simonetti Toro MBA’20