Babson Ranked No. 1 by Money Mag
Money magazine has named Babson College the No. 1 college in America on its new List of Best Colleges. According to the magazine, the rankings are based on “a new approach to ranking colleges that uses unique measures of educational quality, affordability, and career outcome s to help families find the right school at the right price.”
According to Money magazine, “Consider our overall winner, Babson College, in suburban Boston. Quality of education? Check. Babson specializes in business and entrepreneurship but also gives students a well-rounded education in liberal arts and sciences and lots of opportunity for hands-on project-based learning. Big financial payoff? Check again. Babson grads go on to earn hefty salaries, and the list of ventures they’ve started is impressive, including Home Depot and Zumba Fitness.”
Babson Hosts Women’s Entrepreneurship Soiree
Babson College’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL) hosted the Women’s Entrepreneurship Summer Soiree: An Evening with Boston Business Owners, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at Babson’s Boston Campus. The soiree will feature successful women entrepreneurs who will share their experiences and insights on developing thriving companies within the Greater Boston area.
This networking event brought together thought leaders from Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership and the City of Boston’s Office of Business Development. This program was designed to provide women business owners with the opportunity to form valuable connections with some of the city’s top business front-runners to help strengthen and grow their businesses.
Zicklin GEM U.S. Report Issued
The happiness levels of American women entrepreneurs are surging as they assume the role of successful business owner, according to the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) U.S. Report issued by Babson College and Baruch College. Established female business owners ranked their well-being more than twice as high as non-entrepreneurs and non-business owners.
The GEM U.S. Report is authored by Babson professors Donna J. Kelley, PhD, Abdul Ali, PhD, Candida Brush, PH.D, Andrew C. Corbett, PhD, and Mahdi Majbouri, PhD, with Thomas Lyons, PhD, and Edward G. Rogoff PhD, contributing from Baruch College.
Olin Alumnus Appointed VP of Product Management at PeopleFluent
PeopleFluent, a leading social human capital management technology company announced the appointment of F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business alumnus Rajan Venkitachalam as its vice president of product management. Mr. Venkitachalam joins PeopleFluent from Caradigm, where he served as director of program management.
PeopleFluent has achieved greater than fifteen percent organic revenue growth in the last twelve months and the recent launch of the Mirror Suite and the Colossus cloud-based data integration platform has proven to be a significant, positive inflection point for the company.
The appointment of Rajan Venkitachalam as VP of product management solidifies PeopleFluent’s commitment to an innovative cloud-based product strategy, focused on leveraging all of an organization’s data to gain meaningful and actionable knowledge.
Babson Hosts Program for Former NFL Players
The Trust, a program designed to aid former NFL players, powered by the NFL Players Association, has partnered with Babson College to create a “Basic Training – It’s My Business” program to assist former NFL players with deciding if owning, partnering or investing in a business is a sound career move.
The Trust is a set of resources, programs and services designed to provide former players with the support, skills and tools to help ensure success after football. The Trust emerged from the commitment of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) and its members to ensure that players are provided access to benefits and services that assist in their success beyond the game of football.
BU and Babson Professors Co-Publish New Book
Kathy Kram, Professor in Management at Boston University School of Management and Wendy Murphy, associate professor of management at Babson College, have published a new book titled Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life. The book provides guidelines for building relationships that are crucial to personal success. The book draws upon 30 years of research to offer practical advice on mentoring, coaching, mentoring circles, and developmental networks.
