Faculty and Staff

Sponsored by The Stephen. D Cutler Center for Investments and Finance, this weekly webinar series will focus on the financial impact of COVID-19. Join us each week to learn from faculty and alumni thought leaders as they discuss and answer your questions on various topics amidst the current crisis.Friday, March 27: Associate Professor Jerome Taillard - Past and Present Crisis: The Policy ResponseWe have witnessed tremendous economic growth around the globe in the last century. But the path to growth is all but linear. Crises of all kinds occur regularly. Governments and the policies they enact become essential in guaranteeing swift recoveries. We will explore the playbook governments use in crises. In doing so, we will uncover the role of key policy makers, how their actions affect markets and the overall economy, and ultimately lead to a recovery. Past crises as well as the current one will be discussed!Access the recording and slides here.Friday, April 3: Associate Professor Steven Feinstein - Lawsuits: Securities Litigation Precipitated by the COVID-19 Crash While COVID-19 has wrought harm to health, it also caused a financial market crash. A surge in litigation, including allegations of fraud, often follows a major market loss. Some allegations are tied directly to the factors that caused the crash. But more cases focus on fraud that is exposed by the crash. Still others address what is said and done in the wake, after the economic disruptions have begun. Corporations are owned by investors but run by their agents. For the system to work, rewards and honest information must be shared equitably. This webinar, citing new and precedent cases, and anticipated imminent cases, will explore what happens when the rules are broken.Access the recording and slides here.Friday, April 10:Assistant Professor Luke Stein - Measuring Market Volatility Friday, April 17: Lecturer Glenn Migliozzi, CFA - Hedge Funds, Price Volatility, and the Career Ending Margin Calls As a former hedge fund manager, seeded by Julian Robertson of Tiger Management, Glenn will offer a front-row experience of starting, managing, and closing a fund, and discuss strategies for managing through market volatility like we're experiencing today. The fund he managed was a short-biased credit hedge fund that used Credit Default Swaps to exploit market inefficiencies. Hedge Funds and other Alternative Investments are complements to traditional investments of publicly traded stocks and bonds that have limitations and imperfections. Some hedge fund strategies require significant price volatility to generate real performance alpha: Global Macro Strategies, Managed Futures, Distress Securities, and Short-Biased Funds. Several strategies require low volatility to generate outsized returns but require significant leverage: Merger Related Strategies, and Convertible Bond/Fixed Income Arbitrage. Finally, some fund strategies require minimal market volatility and leverage while depending upon security selection to outperform; Long Short Equity and Market Neutral Strategies. Margin calls can have risky consequences, particularly in today's market environment, so exercising caution is more important than ever. Learn ways to mitigate these risks, exploit market inefficiencies, and discuss various alternative investment strategies that can help manage through these volatile market conditions that we're experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.Friday, April 24: Lecturer Paul Griesmer - Current Crisis and the Impact on Real Estate Friday, May 1: Senior Lecturer Patrick Gregory, CFA & John Bailer, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Large Cap Dividend Portfolios, Mellon - Equity Market Turmoil: Finding Opportunities while Mitigating RiskThe Babson community, including students, staff, faculty and alumni are invited to join. Find out more >>

Designed and led by Babson alumna, Veronica N. Chapman, MBA'08, Founder and Chief Designer, Boxxout Enterprises, this interactive workshop will help you generate and act on ideas that are authentic to your lived experiences. You will consider how your gifts and talents can be employed to make your greatest contributions to the world. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their goals and dreams while holding each other accountable to those ambitions.You will learn:How to generate and act on ideas that are authentic to your lived experienceHow to align what you care about with your individual gifts and talents to make your greatest impact This session is part of the Women Innovating Now (WIN) Workshop series, presented by the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership. All members of the Babson, Olin, and Wellesley communities are welcome to join us each month to power-boost your entrepreneurial potential with tangible skills, inspiration, and networks of support.Light refreshments will be served. Find out more >>

For entrepreneurs, the 'new normal' requires resilience, flexibility, and ingenuity. Hear from a panel of alumni entrepreneurs and investors who will share stories of how they are navigating this new climate by contributing to their communities, pivoting their businesses, and staying focused on the end game. Come learn from their experiences, get new insights, and, in the conversation that follows, share your story of resilience to help others find inspiration and ideas.In the words of one of our speakers, Alicia Castillo Holley, 'It is in these times of trouble that the entrepreneurial mindset is tested and polishedIf we can fast-track to adapting, we become better human beings.'Speakers:Gautam Gupta '07 - Partner, M13 Ventures and former CEO/founder of NatureBox Alicia Castillo Holley, PhD, MBA '96 - Founder, Wealthing Institute and angel investor Mike Maher '07 - Co-founder/CEO, Taylor StitchDavid Zamarin '19 - Founder and CEO, DetrapelMore speakers to be announced. Find out more >>

Join Babson and the Blank Center for Entrepreneurship for the 2020 B.E.T.A. Challenge! Hear Babson's top student and alumni entrepreneurs present their ventures for their chance to win $20,000 in cash for their business.The Blank Center's B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action) Challenge recognizes major milestones Babson businesses have achieved by taking action. Winners of the graduate, undergraduate, and alumni B.E.T.A. Challenge each win a grand prize of $20,000 in cash in addition to receiving services in-kind from corporate sponsors. In addition, $2,500 is awarded to the two other finalist ventures in each of the three competitions.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, #babsonbeta Find out more >>

Join us a virtual 'ask me anything' session on immigration and embracing your cultural identity to succeed as an entrepreneurial leader with CWEL Mentor, Bianca Jordan, founder of Brazen Legal, a law firm that provides legal counseling and representation to immigrants and small businesses.About Bianca JordanBianca Jordan is the founder of Brazen Legal, a law firm that provides legal counseling and representation to immigrants and small businesses. Through her work, Jordan helps immigrant entrepreneurs live and work in the United States, consults for global companies and advises women entrepreneurs in Haiti. She has served as an advisor and mentor at the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership and various entrepreneurship programs at Babson College. Jordan has also lectured on legal and branding considerations for entrepreneurs at various educational institutions in Massachusetts. She is a contributor for the Boston Young Professionals Association where she shares legal tips for entrepreneurs; and mentors law students through the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. This event is offered by the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership as part of the CWEL Circles series. We welcome all students, alumni, faculty, and friends to join the conversation each month in-person or via Zoom from anywhere in the world.On campus? Join us at 12 p.m. for a pre-session lunch in Conference Room 350, Olin Hall on Babson's Wellesley Campus. Find out more >>