At Babson, President Len Schlesinger says, “you teach and learn entrepreneurship in the classroom, and then you live entrepreneurially to ground it.” And who better to prove that than the college’s faculty and alumni?
Professor Erik Noyes consulted for companies, ranging from Nokia and BMW to New Balance and Motorola, before coming to teach at Babson. He’s since helped build one of the country’s “most innovative” undergraduate entrepreneurship courses, according to the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship—helping prove entrepreneurship can, indeed, be taught.
“‘Entrepreneurs are born, not made’ is hogwash,” Noyes says. “It’s such a myth, and such a tired narrative.” At Babson, he claims they blow up that myth when first-year students walk in to class on day one, by highlighting the opportunities for entrepreneurs out there and teaching them how to identify those options for themselves.
To read the original article: Living Entrepreneurially: How a Babson Education Extends Beyond the Classroom | BostInno
