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Mary Gale

  • Associate Professor of Practice
  • Co-Faculty Director, Babson Fellows Program
  • Co-Faculty Director, BEE Women for Africa Launch & Grow program
Academic Division: Entrepreneurship
Ms. Gale is an educator, entrepreneur, business leader, and consultant with over 30 years of strategic, marketing, and operations experience across a broad range of industries including software-based services, diagnostics, telecommunications, surface preparation, consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods and education.

She has taught in the Babson college Entrepreneurship Division since Fall 2011. During this time, she has taught

Ms. Gale has been involved in eight start-ups as an investor, director, and/or senior executive. Most recently, she served as CEO of a start-up software services business, Pet Health Network, Inc. She was also a senior marketing executive at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. during a period of early growth through IPO. She began her career in product management at General Foods. Her consulting experience includes Booz, Allen; Marketing Corporation of America (boutique consulting firm in Westport, Connecticut); and her own assignments.

She currently serves on the boards of Sponge-Jet, Inc., Portsmouth, NH (advanced, recyclable, industrial surface preparation technology. She is a Trustee Emerita of Gould Academy, Bethel, ME

Academic Degrees

  • MBA, Harvard Business School
  • AB, Mount Holyoke College

Academic Interest / Expertise

Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, Technology Entrepreneurship, Managing Growth, Social Entrepreneurship

Courses

  • Degree Courses 2025

    • FME 1001 FOUNDS MGMT & EPS
    • EPS 3541 GROW YOUR VENTURE
  • Degree Courses 2024

    • FME 1000 FOUNDATIONS OF MGMT & ENTREPRENEURS
    • FME 1001 FOUNDS MGMT & EPS
    • EPS 3541 LAUNCH GROW YOUR EXISTING VENTURE
  • Degree Courses 2023

    • EPS 1000 FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMEN
    • FME 1000 FOUNDATIONS OF MGMT & ENTREPRENEURS
    • FME 1001 FOUNDATIONS OF MGMT & ENTREPRENEURS

Publications

Cases and Teaching Notes

  • Zacharakis, S., Zacharakis, A.L., Gale, M.D. (2018). InnerCity Weightlifting. Babson Case Collection.

Book Chapters

  • Gale, M.D. (in press). "One-page Business Model Template for Testing New Ideas": Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice-Based Approach, Heidi Neck (Editor), Candida Brush(Editor), Patricia Greene (Editor) Volume 2, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK, publication expected April 2021. .
  • Brush, C.S., Gale, M.D. (2015). Becoming Entrepreneurial: Constructing an Entrepreneurial Identity in Elective Entrepreneurship Courses: Evolving Entrepreneurial Education: Innovation in the Babson Classroom. Page: 305-322. Emerald Publsihing. link

Professional Services

  • Board of Advisors of a Company Rova Academy (2021 - Present)
  • Board Member Kelly Brush Foundation (2013 - 2016)

Department & College Wide Services

  • OTTP -teacher/moderator for Session 2 (Summer 2020 - Summer 2020)
  • Beta Challenge judge of 10 alumni semi-finalists to narrow to final three (Spring 2020 - Spring 2020)
  • Innovation Technology Task Force - work with IT curriculum m and instruction team to help market technologies to faculty and staff; make technology recommendations (what's needed, LMS evaluation) (Spring 2016 - Spring 2017)