Profits from each business support a charitable project, which the students volunteer for while running their business. The 3-semester Intermediate Management Core is designed to help the student develop, in an integrated way, the logic of managerial decision making. Throughout the 4 years there is also a continued emphasis on the full integration of the liberal arts into the curriculum. In 1997 Babson was awarded the prestigious Pew Leadership Award for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education. Focused on entrepreneurial leadership in a changing, global environment, the first year of the innovative Two-Year MBA provides an integrated, modular approach that parallels the life cycle of a business.
All students complete a cross-cultural requirement and consulting experience with a mentor company.
A critical component of EIT is that it provides hands on experiences that take the student beyond the classroom lecture. Member companies include EMC, Fidelity, Compaq, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Staples. The Center for Business in the Networked Economy is dedicated to monitoring, comprehending, and sharing knowledge about the business models that are emerging around the globe, as customers and businesses share electronically supported global communications networks. The Center for Technological Innovation and Enterprise Performance blends leading edge industry specific research with basic principles of new product and service development to provide sound, applicable foresight for making complex decisions in the marketplace. The center also looks at the inner working of member firms, benchmarking process against outcome, in the drive for the responsive, innovative enterprise.