Intensity tracks help students focus on specific business themes and issues, often specific to one or more industry verticals but independent of business functions or disciplines. While an Intensity Track does not appear on your transcript, it provides students with the opportunity to deepen knowledge of a topic and build your resume. Each Intensity Track is a series of for-credit courses, co-curricular activities and they each require a separate application process. Intensity tracks are not concentrations, and they are not referenced on your transcript, although the courses will be listed. Babson's Intensity Tracks are:
Babson College Fund (BCF)
The Babson College Fund is a two-semester academic program in which specially selected students from both the Undergraduate and Graduate schools manage a portion of the Babson College endowment. The program builds students’ investment research and portfolio management skills, and offers practical experience.
Intensity Track Contact: Prof. Farrah Narkiewicz
Business and Social Innovation Intensity Track
The Business and Social Innovation Intensity Track focuses on developing the mindset, skills and competencies around creating economic and social value simultaneously. The role of business in society has significantly shifted. Business leaders increasingly have to meet the challenges and competing demands of "doing well" (economic value), while at the same time "doing good" (social value). The following list provides choices that provide a rich combination of course work and entrepreneurial experiences to practice the concepts of social innovation.
Intensity Track Contact: Jennifer MacDonald.
Family Entrepreneurship Intensity Track
The Family Entrepreneurship Intensity Track is for students from a family entrepreneurship background to have a structured pathway, combining academic and co-curricular programming, that will enable them to leverage their family entrepreneurship legacy to create economic and social value. (Students who are accepted into the graduate Family Entrepreneurship Amplifier course can apply to be part of the Intensity Track.) A student from a family entrepreneurship background is from a family that:
- Has a family business (of any size, small or large) currently or in the past
- Has a family office or investment arm
- Has a family foundation or not-for-profit
- Is planning a startup involving family members
Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship Intensity Track focuses on the creation of health and economic value simultaneously via health-related ventures and health innovations. The goal of this program is to provide cutting-edge healthcare entrepreneurship research, educational opportunities, and entrepreneurial training for healthcare providers, scientists, and business leaders. We offer innovative and experimental learning by bringing real-world scenarios and research to the course. It is a combination of learning inside and outside the classroom that gives students experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry.
Students are required to (1) complete two courses from the list of track-approved courses, (2) choose four co-curricular activities to attend, (3) attend and volunteer for at least one KMH Center event, and (4) students must meet with a KMH Center Senior Fellow or Alum. All requirements require a brief reflection piece that will be submitted via a Canvas site.
Contact Sienna Ablorh with questions.
Science, Technology, and the Enterprise (STE)
Look around, and it is quickly apparent businesses and enterprises of all stripes are increasingly applying science and/or technology in their processes, products, operations, and management. Managing and leading such enterprises requires BOTH disciplinary skills (which MBA students acquire in their core courses and through one or more concentrations completed through electives) AND distinctive perspectives, knowledge, competencies, and ethos in the context of the intense application of science and technology. Shying away from the particulars of science and technology, the STE intensity track focuses on the management and leadership challenges inherent to science- and technology-intensive enterprises in general. The track does not require any special science or technology or technical background; the only pre-requisite: curiosity about and interest in the significant issues and challenges resulting from the intensive application of science and technology in the enterprise.
Intensity Track Contact: Prof. Anirudh Dhebar
WIN Lab
MBA students have the opportunity to gain course credit for the intensive women's accelerator experience offered by the WIN Lab. Throughout the program, women entrepreneurs will transform into CEOs through rigorous entrepreneurship coursework, applied experiences, mentoring, and milestone achievements designed to move early-stage ventures from prototype to successful launch and growth.
For information about the WIN Lab Intensity Track please contact Kara Miller.