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Gazillionaire Mark Cuban visits Babson

By bbrown | Published: November 29, 2011

Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks and an investor on the Shark Tank TV series, visited Babson Tuesday to give students’ business ideas a grilling along with fellow Shark Tanker Daymond John, who has been serving as an entrepreneur in residence at the Wellesley school. BostInno previewed the event, which featured student [...]

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Babson Park post office gets a hearing Tuesday night

By bbrown | Published: November 15, 2011

From Babson College: For more than 80 years, the Post Office branch on Forest Street has served as an important neighborhood resource, offering a convenient location and fast, personalized service. The United States Postal Service is proposing to close the local branch as part of a larger effort to reduce its costs. Representatives of the [...]

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Babson sorority hosting all-night pancake fest for Make-a-Wish Foundation

By bbrown | Published: October 11, 2011

The women of Chi Omega at Babson College are hosting their eighth semiannual, 14-hour Chi-Hop event outside Keith Hall this Thursday, Oct. 13 at 10pm to Friday Oct. 14 at 3pm.  Take your pick of pancake flavors and bacon made to order by the members of Chi Omega (no promises that they’ll be dressed as [...]

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Wellesley getting real: Miss Fit reality TV show on the way

By bbrown | Published: September 15, 2011

UPDATE: Katie Boyd’s reality show will be called Wicked Fit and debuts Oct. 23 Camera crews have started popping up in Wellesley to shoot a new Style Network reality TV series at least tentatively called Miss Fit based on the reality of Katie Elizabeth Boyd and her women’s fitness business on Rte. 9 in Wellesley. [...]

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Babson keeps streak alive as #1 entrepreneurship school

By bbrown | Published: September 13, 2011

Babson College is celebrating U.S. News & World Report‘s ranking of the Wellesley school’s undergraduate program as the top entrepreneurship school in the country for the 15th straight year. MIT (Sloan), UPenn (Wharton) are among the others in the top 5.

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Shark Tank sighting in Wellesley!

By bbrown | Published: July 18, 2011

Babson College has announced that Daymond John, host of an ABC TV reality show called Shark Tank and founder of clothing company FUBU (now FB Legacy), will be hunkering down in Wellesley as an entrepreneur in residence at the school for the fall semester. If you’re not familiar with Shark Tank, it’s a show about [...]

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Dip into Wellesley’s pools this weekend

By bbrown | Published: May 5, 2011

The Wellesley Natural Resources Commission this Saturday is organizing a Vernal Pool Adventure for kids and adults. Meet at the Police Station, where a presentation will kick off at 10am, then head out to explore a local vernal pool. Wear boots and clothes you don’t mind mucking up while searching for frogs, salamanders and other [...]

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Pancake season in Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: April 20, 2011

We got a note from  the women of Chi Omega at Babson College, who are prepping for their 7th  semiannual Chi Hop event.  They will be outside Keith Hall from 10PM this Thursday April 21 until 1pm Friday, April 22  to dish out unlimited pancakes for those willing to make a donation of any amount. [...]

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Social entrepreneur tapped as Babson commencement speaker

By bbrown | Published: March 19, 2011

Babson College in Wellesley has named William Drayton, the head of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, as its commencement speaker for undergrad and graduate ceremonies on May 14. Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, which involves applying entrepreneurial techniques to solving social problems in areas such as human rights, education and the environment. [...]

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Ke$ha to rock Wellesley in April

By bbrown | Published: February 25, 2011

UPDATED: 2/27/11 Singer Ke$ha — she of the self-described  “garbage-chic” look — will be playing a concert at Babson College in Wellesley on April 8 to help students celebrate Spring. Ke$ha’s biggest song is called “Tik Tok” but we hope she’ll honor $wellesley with the very appropriate: “Party at a Rich Dude’s House” (see video [...]

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Top 10 things to do in Wellesley, Mass.

By bbrown | Published: February 24, 2011

Our picks for things every Wellesleyite should experience and that visitors to Wellesley should check out depending upon what time of year they’re in town. 1. Wellesley College. Don’t head over there if you’re looking to party, as the college is regularly listed near the top of anti-party school rankings. However, if you’re into scenery [...]

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Babson Beaver spoofs Super Bowl ad

By bbrown | Published: February 14, 2011

Babson video: The original: Your Ad Here

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Wellesley Players present: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

By bbrown | Published: November 8, 2010
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Spike Lee does the Wellesley thing

By bbrown | Published: October 21, 2010

Film director Spike Lee visited Babson College on Wednesday to talk to students and recognize the winner — Kevin Kauzlauic (shown middle, with Lee on the left and student Christian Bracy on the right) — of Lee’s Business Challenge. The focus of the challenge was to come up with ideas for how black film makers [...]

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Babson student co-creates min.us, a super simple online photo sharing service

By bbrown | Published: October 15, 2010

A Babson College student and an ex-Microsoft engineer have joined forces to simplify the process of sharing photos online with a free new web service called min.us. You simply go to the site – now in beta — and then drag pictures onto the page from your computer’s photo files. You name your gallery/slideshow and [...]

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