Babson College has had a global impact on business education through its pioneering approach to entrepreneurship education and commitment to fostering the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders around the world. Our alumni network of 44,000 now spans 129 countries, providing a unique global platform for collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing among entrepreneurial-minded individuals.
Babson Academy aims to help educators around the world inspire their students to engage using an entrepreneurial mindset. Together, through entrepreneurship, we can make a positive impact on communities, education, and the world.
This year, we continued to increase access to our programs, community, and resources, engaging with 262 educators and 707 students in 43 countries.
The collaborative's growth and success was just one of many highlights in the impact report that demonstrated the impact of Babson Academy, now in its fourth year of bringing together educators, institutions, and their students to advance entrepreneurship education on a global scale.
Babson Academy is recognized with the prestigious 2022 IIE Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in the category of Strategic Partnerships for the Babson Collaborative
A Babson-hosted gathering aimed at expanding relationships and entrepreneurial endeavors drew a hearty crowd of corporate and political attendees as College President Stephen Spinelli Jr. MBA’92, PhD announced a new Babson accelerator program in Ireland.
Reza will serve in his position for three years and support AIEA’s mission to equip leaders to shape the future of higher education in a global context.
GEM, now a global consortium of over 500 researchers, is the largest and most developed research program on entrepreneurship in the world, providing globally-comparable data from 120+ economies.
Babson is among 19 higher education institutions selected for the prestigious program, which is sponsored by Norway to strengthen higher ed ties with the United States and Japan.
15 Bulgarians chosen to come to the College’s Wellesley campus as part of Babson’s Accelerator for Growth, Innovation, & Entrepreneurial Leadership program (B-AGILE).
After taking a trip to Rwanda, 10 Babson students in the Global Health Innovation Lab spent the semester working on health projects meant to leave a lasting impact on the country’s people.
It was a busy year for Ela Gokcigdem ’24, who co-founded a youth organization focused on ocean conservation and then presented survey findings at the world’s foremost climate conference in Egypt.
Following the devastating earthquake and aftershocks that rocked Turkey, Babson students quickly mobilized to launch the Babson Turkish Student Association and collect donations to support recovery efforts.