Babson College

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Formation1919
Typeprivate
Posh Private Business School

Babson College is a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Established in 1919, its central focus is on entrepreneurship education. It was founded by Roger W. Babson as an all-male business institute, but is now coeducational.

History

20th century

On September 3, 1919, with an enrollment of twenty-seven students, the Babson Institute held its first classes in the former home of Roger and Grace Babson on Abbott Road in Wellesley Hills.[citation needed] Roger Babson, the founder of the school, set out to distinguish the Babson Institute from colleges offering mainly instruction in business. The Institute provided intensive training in the fundamentals of production, finance and distribution in just one academic year, rather than four. The curriculum was divided into four subject areas: practical economics, financial management, business psychology and personal efficiency (which covered topics such as ethics, personal hygiene and interpersonal relationships). The program's pace assumed that students would learn arts and sciences content elsewhere.

Babson favored a combination of class work and actual business training. Seasoned businessmen made up the majority of the faculty. To better prepare students for the realities of the business world, the institute's curriculum focused more on practical experience and less on lectures. Students worked on group projects and class presentations, observed manufacturing processes during field trips to area factories and businesses, met with managers and executives, and viewed industrial films on Saturday mornings.

The institute also maintained a business environment as part of the students' everyday life. The students, required to wear professional attire, kept regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday) and were monitored by punching in and out on a time clock. They were also assigned an office desk equipped with a telephone, typewriter, adding machine, and Dictaphone. Personal secretaries typed the students' assignments and correspondence in an effort to accurately reflect the business world. Roger Babson aimed to "prepare his students to enter their chosen careers as executives, not anonymous members of the work force."[1]

In 1969, the Babson Institute's three-year bachelor of science in business administration, still for young men only, became a four-year bachelor of science degree, the Institute became a College and women were admitted for the first time.[2]

21st century

Babson is involved in a three college collaboration with Olin College and Wellesley College (a collaboration often referred to as BOW).[3][4]

Alumni

Business and athletics


Food and entertainment

Government, education, and other

Fashion and fitness


 

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References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101228002014/http://www3.babson.edu/About/History.cfm |archive-date=December 28, 2010
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170826071426/http://www.babson.edu/about-babson/at-a-glance/babsons-history/timeline/Pages/default.aspx%7Carchive-date=August 26, 2017
  3. ↑ https://centennial.babson.edu/babson100/%7Ctitle=Babson 100|website=Babson Centennial|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-22}}
  4. ↑ http://bow3colleges.org/%7Ctitle=Babson/Olin/Wellesley | Three College Collaboration|website=bow3colleges.org|access-date=2019-02-24}}
  5. ↑ "2009 Honorees, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship", Babson.edu. Retrieved October 31, 2013
  6. ↑ https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/20th-century-leaders/Pages/details.aspx?profile=daniel_f_gerber_jr |title=Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century |publisher=Harvard Business School |date=January 19, 2018 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  7. ↑ https://harvardmagazine.com/2012/11/the-busiest-man-in-poker |title=The Busiest Man in Poker |magazine=Harvard Magazine |date=November–December 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  8. ↑ http://www.geo.tv/anniversary/1st/english/page4.htm Archived April 12, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
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  11. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/education/new-leader-is-named-for-medgar-evers-college.html |title=New Leader Is Named for Medgar Evers College |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 24, 2013 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  12. ↑ https://www.army.mil/article/8022/gainey_confirmed_by_senate_for_third_star |title=Gainey confirmed by Senate for third star |publisher=U.S. Army News Release |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  13. ↑ http://qconline.com/news/local/first-female-senior-commander-returns-to-arsenal-for-women-s/article_ada0a4e3-c0b7-53c9-9465-859f56573442.html |title=First female senior commander returns to Arsenal for Women's Equality Day speech |publisher=The Dispatch–Argus |date=September 4, 2016 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  14. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/200504290902.html |title=Liberia: Former Economic Advisor in Liberia, Lafayette Morgan Dies At 74 |publisher=Liberian Observer |date=April 29, 2005 |access-date=February 8, 2018 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121013204409/http://allafrica.com/stories/200504290902.html |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}
  15. ↑ http://www.elpais.com.co/economia/ocde-traera-grandes-oportunidades-embajador-de-colombia-en-francia.html |title=Ocde traerá grandes oportunidades embajador de Colombia en Francia |newspaper=El País |date=June 2, 2013 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  16. ↑ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/contributor/2016/02/04/mesa-history-remembering-mayor-don-strauch/79446386/ |title=Mesa history: Remembering Mayor Don Strauch |publisher=AZCentral USA Today |date=February 4, 2016 |access-date=February 8, 2018}}
  17. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/arts/design/jack-tilton-dead-manhattan-gallery-owner.html%7Ctitle=Jack Tilton, Art Dealer With an Eye for the New, Dies at 66|first=William|last=Grimes|date=May 10, 2017|access-date=August 31, 2017|via=NYTimes.com}}
  18. ↑ https://www.babson.edu/media/babson/site-assets/content-assets/about/events/babson-magazine/summer-2011/winter-2011/Feature-Fashion.pdf |title=They Got the Look |publisher=Babson College |access-date=November 27, 2019}}
  19. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2016/06/13/italian-designer-enrico-marone-cinzano-creates-furniture-with-a-conscience/ |title=Italian Designer Enrico Marone Cinzano Creates Furniture With A Conscience |magazine=Forbes Magazine |date=June 13, 2016 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  20. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-31-mn-5-story.html%7Ctitle=Count Alberto Marone Cinzano; Chairman of Vermouth Firm |work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 31, 1989|access-date=November 27, 2019}}
  21. ↑ https://www.babson.edu/about/entrepreneurs-of-all-kinds/profiles/ruthie-davis.php |title=Profiles Ruthie Davis MBA'93 |publisher=Babson College |access-date=November 27, 2019}}
  22. ↑ https://ruthiedavis.com/about/ |title=About Ruthie Davis |publisher=Ruthie Davis |access-date=November 27, 2019}}
  23. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/03/10/a-successful-pose/33199152-d69e-4cd0-b139-961685fd6671/ |title=A Successful Pose |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 10, 1993 |access-date=January 19, 2018}}
  24. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/style/26iht-luxury08-Murjani.18176690.html |title=Mohan Murjani, chairman, Murjani Group |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 26, 2008 |access-date=January 22, 2018}}
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