Faculty and Staff Events

In partnership with the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance, the Babson PE/VC Club is excited to welcome two HarbourVest Managing Directors-both Babson MBA alumni-back to campus for a timely conversation on where the economy is heading and how private equity is adapting.Brett Gordon, MBA '98, Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer, HarbourVest PartnersScott Voss, MBA '99, Managing Director and Senior Market Strategist, HarbourVest PartnersThis fireside discussion will explore the current macroeconomic landscape and how private markets firms are navigating a higher‑rate environment, the energy transition, and accelerating investment in artificial intelligence. Attendees will gain an inside look at how a global private markets platform makes decisions: where capital is flowing, what is being repriced, and how recent market shifts are reshaping approaches to underwriting risk.President Stephen Spinelli Jr. MBA'92, PhD will open the program and introduce both speakers, whom he taught during their MBA studies at Babson. The conversation will be moderated by Roshni Galani MBA'27 and Daniel Quieroz MBA'27.A networking reception with the speakers and the HarbourVest team will follow the program. Business casual dress is required. The event is open to the Babson community, including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Find out more

Babson Park, MA: Make Your Mark 2026 Find out more

Please join fellow alumni, families, and friends as we gather to make a collective difference on our annual Ellen S. Solomita '89 Day of Service. Find out more

MAN BITES AI is a funny, provocative look at what happens when a lifelong creative professional spends 4,000 hours working with artificial intelligence.   Through stories, experiments, failures, and a few spectacular machine malfunctions, Cameron Day argues that AI is most powerful when it amplifies human originality instead of replacing it.   The talk challenges students, faculty and staff to bring their own ideas, judgment, taste, and humanity to the technology, because AI can generate endless options, but it won’t give a damn about originality unless you do. Find out more

Please join fellow alumni, families, and friends as we gather to make a collective difference on our annual Ellen S. Solomita '89 Day of Service. Find out more