Practice Areas
Is your organization trying to solve a specific problem or develop a new capability, product, service, or ecosystem?
Babson’s thought leaders build collaborative training solutions within essential areas of focus for corporations, non-profits, NGOs, and governments. Explore Babson Executive Education practice areas and experts.
Our Work Spans Six Main Practice Areas
Work with real-world practitioners who influence growth strategy and receive awards for research and knowledge transfer in six main areas of practice. Our training programs give you access to expert Babson trainers in live online and face-to-face formats, providing customized coaching, action plans for your challenges, and networking opportunities. Explore our practice areas and featured experts.
Meet our Featured Experts and Explore Insights
Entrepreneurial Leadership
To operate successfully, organizations and teams need to understand how to navigate uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and solve problems—while remaining open to new opportunities. Learn this entrepreneurial mindset and apply it to your biggest challenges with targeted leadership development programs.
Andrew Corbett
Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Anirudh Dhebar
Susan & Gary DiCamillo Term Chair in Teaching Excellence
Danna Greenberg
Walter H. Carpenter Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty
Scott Taylor
Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership
Entrepreneurial Leadership Insights
To lead effectively in a world in constant flux, you need to build and nurture an ability to think like an entrepreneur. Download our insights, Re-envisioning Leadership to Build the Future, to explore how an entrepreneurial mindset can help your business thrive.
Strategic Innovation
Pursue new markets, business models, and revenue lines while continuing to manage current customers, products, and services. With expert support, you can build or strengthen your corporate innovation infrastructure, or develop skills and frameworks for strategic innovation.
Peter Cohan
Associate Professor of Practice, Management Division
Bradley George
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Division
Erik Noyes
Michael London '92 and Stephen H. Kramer '92 Term Chair in Entrepreneurship
Gina O’Connor
Fischer Family Term Chair in Healthcare Management
Entrepreneurial Leadership Insights
Unlike forecasting, which fosters incremental innovation, backcasting starts with the future in mind and works backward to outline the necessary steps to get there. The result? Breakthrough Innovation. Download these free guidelines with practical steps and examples of how to implement strategic innovation and backcasting in your organization.
Healthcare
Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® help us reimagine healthcare systems, from workforce development programs to strategic innovation processes. Foster the entrepreneurial leaders and processes you need to enhance care quality and improve health outcomes while reducing costs and managing spending. We can even help you develop, implement, and scale health innovations.
Michele Bernier
Associate Director of Programs, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Candida Brush
F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
Alia Crocker
Associate Professor, Management Division
Wiljeana Glover
Stephen C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Professor of Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Gina O’Connor
Fischer Family Term Chair in Healthcare Management
Dessislava Pachamanova
Zwerling Family Endowed Term Chair
Angela Randolph
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Division
Donna Stoddard P’21
Dean of Faculty
Andrew “Zach” Zacharakis
John H. Muller, Jr. Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Insights for Effective Health Innovations
Babson Professional & Executive Education has compiled insights for companies, organizations, foundations, executives, and medical providers that crystalize proactive steps you can take to bring entrepreneurship and innovation to the healthcare and life sciences space.
Inclusive Leadership
Get support reimagining your organization’s culture to maximize the success of women and underrepresented groups throughout the organization. Reinvigorate innovation, growth, and performance with inclusive leadership development programs and stand out from your less diverse competition.
Smaiyra Million P’21
Industry Fellow, Babson Executive Education
Wendy Murphy
Associate Dean, Undergraduate School
Angela Randolph
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Division
Yasuhiro Yamakawa
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Division
Inclusive Leadership Insights
We support organizations in creating practices to attract, retain, and engage diverse top talent. Developing inclusive leaders across all levels drives business success. Explore how to help your business become a more inclusive, thriving work environment with this collection of free insights from Babson experts.
Social Innovation
Move beyond compliance and away from jargon to an entrepreneurial process that creates new and expanded business and social value. Our experts will help you redefine and identify relationships that matter most. Every company and context is unique, and we work with each organization to find the most resonant language for your business.
Anirudh Dhebar
Susan & Gary DiCamillo Term Chair in Teaching Excellence
Ken Freitas MBA’87
Executive in Residence, Institute for Social Innovation
Phil Kim
Lewis Family Distinguished Professor in Social Innovation
Cheryl Kiser
Executive Fellow in Social Innovation
Wendy Murphy
Associate Dean, Undergraduate School
Gina O’Connor
Fischer Family Term Chair in Healthcare Management
Scott Taylor
Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership
Dr. Shakenna Williams ’94
Executive Director, Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership
Insights for Effective Corporate Social Innovation
By developing an entrepreneurial mindset throughout your teams and organization, you can shift the “social” element of your work from a reactionary risk-management approach to an entrepreneurial opportunity—creating expanded and new value within the context of your business. This collection of insights stems from over two decades of research and consulting from top Babson experts.
Entrepreneurship
Help strengthen an ecosystem of entrepreneurship. Refine the understanding of how to launch, build, and scale entrepreneurial ventures with Babson, ranked no. 1 in Entrepreneurship for 30+ years (U.S. News & World Report). Our award-winning approach to converting problems into opportunities with Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® can help you in any initiative or venture.
Candida Brush
F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
Phil Kim
Lewis Family Distinguished Professor in Social Innovation
Heidi Neck
Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurship
Andrew “Zach” Zacharakis
John H. Muller, Jr. Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies