Babson College Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011

WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 11, 2011  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global Entrepreneurship Week will be celebrated by Babson College with events, panels and gatherings at Babson and around the world.

The Babson events, taking place November 11-19, are part of the thousands of events in 120 countries celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity during GEW.

GEW brings together aspiring and inspiring entrepreneurs, helping them to embrace originality, imagination, and ingenuity through local, national and global activities.  Visit http://www.unleashingideas.org/.

Babson GEW events include:

*Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Friday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13
Friday: MassChallenge, One Marina Park Drive, Boston
Saturday/Sunday: Babson Campus

*Redefining Entrepreneurship Campaign
Friday, November 11 - Friday, November 18

*Release of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor US 2010 Report

*Send-Off Celebration - Babson Finalists - Global Student Entrepreneur Award Competition
Dinesh Wadhwani '12, co-founder of ThinkLite, and James Hilton '12, co-founder of Jacox-Hilton Producer Consulting
Monday, November 14
Babson Campus

*Global Entrepreneurship Week in Rwanda
Supported by Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
Monday, November 14 - Sunday, November 20
Rwanda

*GEW/Accelerator Workshop: Trends with Professor Caroline Daniels
Tuesday, November 15
Babson Campus

*Raising Capital in a Global Economy - A Conversation among Investment Professionals - including Babson Professor Kevin Mulvaney
Wednesday, November 16
Babson Campus

*Entrepreneurship Summit 2011 Barbados
Panelists include Babson's Steven Gold & Cindy Klein-Marmer
Thursday, November 17 - Friday, November 18
Barbados

*STEP Asia Pacific Summit
Professor Pramodita Sharma, Babson STEP Project Global Director, delivers opening speech on "Governing a Family, a Firm and a Family Enterprise: How a Family Enterprise Can Achieve Sustainability"
Thursday, November 17 - Saturday, November 19
Sun Yat-Sen University, Taipei

*Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit
Professor Patricia Greene presents 'big idea' for the future of entrepreneurship education
Friday, November 18
Washington, DC

Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(r). The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society -- while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action(r) as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value.  For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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SOURCE Babson College