In the run-up to the 2008 financial meltdown, many top-tier business schools devoted themselves to pumping out a stream of Wall Street recruits. Babson College, ranked #1 in entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report, took a different path. “If you’ve been a school that’s used to producing people for Wall Street and those jobs have dried up, you’ve got lots of finance faculty members wondering, ‘What am I going to teach? What am I going to do?’” says Dennis Hanno, the newly-appointed Dean of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. “I believe it’s nimbleness that we need to be able to create in our students. It’s not so much about how to manage, but how to create. And those skills…have been wholly lacking in a lot of graduate education. Creativity and innovation are where our energy is.”
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