In 2010 it established The Babson College-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center to assist in developing entrepreneurs throughout Rwanda.
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Babson College has launched a summer Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy for high school students in Rwanda and Ghana.
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Bill Bygrave has spent a career researching entrepreneurship as a professor at Babson College (where I teach).
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Meanwhile Babson College, whose main campus is based just outside of Boston, has plenty of experience with nearby competition.
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The GEM is a nonprofit consortium that was initiated in 1999 as a partnership between Babson College and London Business School.
Babson College, along with London Business School, launched the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 1999 to help answer this very question.
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Brown graduated from Babson College, Massachusetts with a degree in entrepreneurial studies.
He went to Babson College to major in finance and entrepreneurship, then quit half a year after getting venture funding for BlueTie.
Caroline Daniels, a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
Blank was born in New York City, then attended Babson College.
But for Carolyn Daniels, a professor at Babson College and a serial entrepreneur herself, there really are two make-or-break traits for those considering launching a startup.
"You can go into analysis-paralysis, " says Patricia Greene, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College, who warns that benchmarking could discourage companies from using innovative business models.
According to Jeff Mulligan, a judge of the Babson College Student Business of the Year Award, (and himself a 1983 winner of the prize), Xie dazzled the judges.
The trip took 26 Babson College MBAs to visit with start-up CEOs, capital providers, and professors so they could learn about what it takes to start a business in these locations.
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Angel investors typically receive equity stakes ranging anywhere from 20% to 60%, depending on the size of their investment, says Andrew Zacharakis, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
He joined faculty and administrators from Massachusetts' Babson College, Michigan State University and other schools in Colorado last summer in what he says is an effort to move schools from talk to action.
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Such "sharing" businesses are spreading rapidly, in part because they are so easy to replicate, and have attracted some high-profile investors, says Andrew Zacharakis, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
"If you've developed a product or service, it doesn't necessarily mean you're the person in the best position to move it forward, " says Julian Lange, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
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Even more exciting, research from Babson College says that if female entrepreneurs in the U.S. started with the same capital as men, they could add as many as six million jobs to the economy within five years.
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The young team, who previously were consultants on Facebook marketing, includes Chae and two former classmates at Babson College, who all dropped out after their sophomore years to move from Boston to California to start their company.
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Your startup's chances of survival also will increase if you hire individuals who are excited by the opportunity to work for a new venture, as opposed to just any employer, adds Caroline Daniels, a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
In January, I took 26 Babson College MBA candidates to Hong Kong and our first meeting was with Lee in the headquarters of his company, BridgeWay Business Builder and Broker, it buys and sells restaurants, nail salons, and other retail stores in Hong Kong.
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An increase in start-up activity is a good sign for the overall national economy because it will lead to more employment opportunities in the near future, says Donna Kelley, the report's lead author and an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
In addition, according to Babson and College Board, 65 percent of higher education institutions say online education is now a critical part of their long-term strategy.
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Babson Research Survey Group and College Board estimate that in the fall of 2010 6.1 million students took at least one online education course.
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