Experiences of Successful Center Directors - Baylor University

pers by and about, SEE participants. The PBCFP created an award in memory of
the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies former executive director, Edwin M.
Appel. Several Edwin M. Appel Prizes are awarded annually to SEE alumni who
bring “entrepreneurial vitality to academy in the true spirit of the Price-Babson
College Fellows Program.”
Babson /National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Partnership
In 1994, the CES and NFTE established “NFTE University” at Babson College. It
is a program that teaches inner-city at-risk youth and their teachers about entrepreneurship
and the basics of starting a business. Each summer, teachers and
staff from around the country are trained in the craft of teaching entrepreneurship
to at-risk youth. Babson also coordinates and funds NFTE BIZCAMP—intensive
two-week business seminars for urban high school students—at Babson College
and at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas.
Entrepreneurial Management Program (EMP)
Research
Faculty members from CES co-sponsor the annual EMP in conjunction with the
Small Business Association of New England (SBANE). The program’s goal is to
address the core management issues of fast-growing ventures. This three-day
residential program, offered since 1986, is held at Babson’s Center for Executive
Education. The seminars normally start on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. and
run through 1:00 p.m. the following Wednesday.
In addition, we have events almost every week for local “wannabes” and wouldbe
entrepreneurs—things like lecture series, breakfast meetings and guest meetings.
They can join an organization called the Babson Entrepreneurial Exchange.
They’ve put on a research conference and they’ve published a magazine twice a
year called The Babson Entrepreneurial Review with interesting articles for
practitioners. We do executive day programs for local entrepreneurs and for
everyone, both on campus and off campus, for entrepreneurs and for companies.
We do programming for quite big companies that want to get more entrepreneurship
back into their companies.
I guess we’re finding that case writing is a fabulous outreach program. You’re
writing about a case every three weeks right now and that’s been a phenomenal
outreach for us. It’s amazing. No one’s refused us yet, and some we’ve literally
cold called. So far we’ve not had any outright refusals. One or two we’re still working
on, and I didn’t realize just how powerful an outreach program that is for us.
Our research came about when the Babson family donated an endowed chair in
1980. We wanted to get someone really important to fill it. There weren’t that
many names in those days, but Jack Hornaday, who had headed up the Center
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