I had this post in my drafts for a long time. Today I retrieved it to write about something different but very exciting for all members of the thriving Babson Community. Yesterday, Babsons PR blasted the news all over the (social) media: Entrepreneur Magazine and Princeton Review named Babson #1 in Entrepreneurship for both Undergraduate and Graduate Schools. This is the first time that this survey of 2,300 schools ranks both of our schools as number 1. It’s definitely something that makes us all proud and that will bring growth, reputation and importance to Babson’s programs. It will also yield increased responsibilities for everybody graduating from Babson and that will hopefully increase the number of Babson-grad-run startups all over the world.

Originally, this post was a sort of review of a book I had just finished reading: Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton, the 2-year-long story of a journalist-turned-MBA-student during his time in the “world’s best business school”, HBS. I’m glad that the exciting news gave me the opportunity to talk about Babson instead of HBS in this post, using only the title of the book to illustrate how Babson thrives as the top-of-mind entrepreneurship school in the world. I could have written about the excellency, particularity or exclusivity that, according to the author, HBS represents in the business school world. Instead, I can say that Babson not only shares a common space with HBS as top business schools, but also stands out as a community that values an entrepreneurial and open mindset and welcomes hands-on innovation. Exactly as HBS plays a role in the elite of the business and corporate worlds, I think of Babson as a contributing force in the entrepreneurial elite in the entire world.

To conclude this celebratory text, I want to recognize the achievements of some of the Babson entrepreneurs that keep our school ahead of the entrepreneurship curve and that I had the great opportunity to sit next to in class. Kudos to Canditto, Lazybones, Incentive Targeting, PeopleAhead, Finroo, RetireLife and VergheseVentures, whose CEO is one of the most inspiring individuals I’ve had the opportunity to meet in my life.

Oh, the places we’ll go as Babson alumni!