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CASE STUDY
Leaning into Flexibility with Eyes on the Long Game
Hilton Hotels CEO Chris Nassetta is a living example of staying flexible while considering the long game when it comes to entrepreneurial thinking. To maintain the loyalty of Hilton housekeepers, bellhops, and other frontline workers despite the hotel shutdowns during the height of the pandemic, Nassetta built a Hilton Workforce Resource Center. The center connected Hilton staff with temporary jobs at retailers with increased demand, such as CVS, Amazon, and Albertsons.
Highly unconventional, this move demonstrated his willingness to try something new, to take a risk, with the goal of maintaining long-term engagement and motivation with Hilton’s workforce.
In this case study, Nassetta is demonstrating how a truly entrepreneurial mindset means shifting between elaboration logic and implementation logic. Babson can break down these key frameworks for leaders, guiding companies and leaders alike through embracing entrepreneurial thinking.
Navigate Change, Stay Nimble, and Create Value
The future of work needs more entrepreneurial leaders who know how to create economic and social value simultaneously. Ranked 2nd best college in the U.S. (The Wall Street Journal, 2026), Babson College can help fuel these innovative mindsets through programming and advisory services for you, your team, and your company.
“Babson’s success equipping professionals with the skills and competencies required to succeed in any industry ensures that leaders of all kinds remain nimble and prepared to create solutions where the world needs them most.”
— Stephen Spinelli Jr. MBA’92, PhD Babson College President
Programs for Corporations and Organizations
Organizations that promote a strong culture of learning have 30–50 percent higher engagement and retention rates compared to their peers, along with increased productivity rates and profits. Yet the traditional approach to leadership development focuses on describing the problem— and the ROI of this approach is typically less than 10 percent.*
At Babson, the No. 1-ranked institution for entrepreneurship 30 years running, we prioritize action-based leadership models that enable organizational growth and development to help you stay nimble despite today’s fast pace of change. Through Babson Professional and Executive Education and Corporate Engagement, we work with and alongside corporations to increase your investment in professional development and advisory services, because we believe you deserve 100 percent.
*Source: Deloitte
Strategic Practice Areas
Our work begins with these practice areas and extends far beyond them across 24+ industries and 80+ countries
Develop Your People Open Enrollment Programs from Babson On-Demand™
Foster entrepreneurial thinking and leadership at your organization with professional development opportunities for promising leaders and established executives.
Whether you’re enrolling one employee or more than three, our Professional and Executive Education programs on our digital learning platform Babson On-Demand™, as well as blended and in-person courses, offer a wide range of flexible options for organizations.
Example courses include:
Business Analytics for Managers: Leading with Data
Concept to Customer: Prototyping and Market Evaluation
Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Culture
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Influence
Executive Leadership Program: Owning Your Leadership
Financing and Pitching Your Venture
Innovation and Growth Leadership
Leadership Program for Women & Allies: From Opportunity to Action
Resilient Leadership
Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing
On successful completion of each online course, you’ll earn a digital badge to add to your online profile and CV of accomplishments. Stack them into certificates for more comprehensive skills and qualifications.
“This program is a must. For me, the timing was perfect in my life/career. What I learned was transformative. The new connections I made were invaluable. Don’t miss out!”
— Leah Foley Fidelity Investments, LLC
Participant in the Leadership Program for Women & Allies
Corporate Partner Program Corporate Certificates, Degree Programs and For-Credit Classes
Babson can help you solve the problem of siloed professional development options and provide a flexible framework for how you plan, fund, and manage your corporate training. Choose the right level of support for your organization, with both online and in-person benefits to develop inclusive leaders at all levels of your organization.
Strategic Alliance Partner
No Cost to You
15% Employee Discount on PT Grad Programs
10% Employee Discount on BEE Open Enrollment Programs
6 Complimentary Faculty-Led Webinars
Silver Partner
12 Course Units
10% Discount on Open Enrollment
Gold Partner
24 Course Units
1 Semi Custom Workshop
15% Discount on Open Enrollment
Platinum Partner
48 Course Units
1 Semi Custom Workshop
1 Custom Executive Leadership Roundtable
20% Discount on Open Enrollment
“They (Babson) lay out all the pieces to make an innovation program work very well. They show how we need to align our HR and our roles to innovation priorities and innovation jobs.”
— Michael Gudas Director of Innovation Strategy and Operations Liberty Mutual Insurance
Provide professional development opportunities that won’t impact your training budget. Babson’s Corporate certificates, degrees, and for-credit classes leverage your employees’ tuition benefits, providing a cost-effective, credit-bearing, cohorted academic experience. This is a high value way to help employees build needed skills to advance within your organization.
Offerings include:
Open Enrollment Graduate Courses
Corporate Certificate in Advanced Management (CAM) Corporate MBA
“Being so early in my career, the Corporate CAM program helped me to form a foundation of learning different management styles, different ways of thinking, seeing a broader perspective on the business ... all while meeting people from different parts of the organization.”
— Process Engineer and past participant
“As a school like Babson knows very well, you can’t transform a company by changing the portfolio of businesses or by changing the capital allocation. The real transformation comes from the culture, and I think that was the pivotal moment in Pfizer, where we turned and we said that we are going to be a purpose-driven company.”
— Dr. Albert Bourla H’21 Chairman and CEO of Pfizer
Custom Training Programs for Your Organization
Considering today’s rapid pace of change, you need teams who can confidently navigate uncertainty while building collaborative working relationships.
Babson’s world-renowned experts can develop corporate workshops and programs that center around immersive scenarios unique to your corporation, government, NGO, nonprofit, or startup. Your teams will leave our programs with a shared vision and action plans to address concrete challenges, identify opportunities, and make a positive economic and social impact.
CASE STUDY
Navigating Disruption with McGraw-Hill Education Challenge
Challenge
With the disruption in the publishing industry, the CEO recognized the company’s leadership and culture needed to transform.
Solution
A two-year initiative where leaders participated in strategic work sessions, developed an entrepreneurial mindset to identify opportunities for innovation, and received coaching based on a 360-degree assessment so they could apply what they had learned directly at McGraw-Hill.
Results
Qualitative and quantitative indicators demonstrated the initiative enhanced leaders’ mindsets and skill sets, drove gains in collaboration and enterprise activity, and enabled improvements in business operations.
CASE STUDY
Expanding a Vendor Pool with Chobani
Many companies struggle to diversify their vendors. This effort takes investment.
After completing an audit to determine need, here are a range of actions companies have taken:
Chobani broadened their incubator recruitment strategy to reach more female and minority business owners, with the goal of filling the gap to boost the number of vendors in their space. As a result, 75 percent of the next cohort were underrepresented minority founders and 63 percent were female founders or cofounders, representing a wide range of nationalities, backgrounds, and geographies.
Another company reviewed their process for determining which vendors were qualified. They found it was based on subjective criteria. As a result, they started a certification process for vendors based on objective criteria, allowing them to use vendors they would have previously viewed as risky.
This case study demonstrates how companies frequently forget that inclusive leadership shouldn’t just be relegated to the mission statement on their website. Working with Babson will help you develop the skills necessary in your organization for inclusive thinking and leadership.
Business Advisory
Does your organization need help removing blockers to business growth?
Babson Business Advisory experts will work alongside you to take the unique opportunities and pain points of your business into account. Our approach blends diagnostics, leadership team development, business implementation strategies, and advising to foster collaboration and advance your business with skills and frameworks for sustained growth.
“Babson helps us develop the strategic thinking we need to continue to challenge ourselves, discover new opportunities, and innovate into the future.”
— Gian Paolo Bassi CEO of Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS
Sponsored Programs
Would your organization like to strengthen entrepreneurship ecosystems?
We design and deliver sponsored philanthropic growth programs in partnership with banks (such as Santander Bank and Goldman Sachs) foundations, and other organizations. Through these collaborations, we help strengthen entrepreneurship ecosystems and diverse communities. This is just one way that we contribute to entrepreneurial leadership that fosters economic and social growth.
Babson Accelerator for Growth, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Leadership (B-AGILE)
B-AGILE is a customizable, seven-session leadership program for corporations or governmental organizations. Participants learn how to assess and mitigate risk and solve complex challenges with proven entrepreneurial methods. In the process, they also are equipped with well-researched and practical approaches for leading with empathy and inclusivity.
B-AGILE Corporate Accelerator
Strengthen your organization with a corporate accelerator that tackles a specific challenge or project—and doubles as a coveted professional development opportunity for high-potential employees and/or midlevel managers.
B-AGILE Government Accelerator
Energize your organization, building a shared vocabulary and innovation mindset. This government leadership program equips your team with new ways of thinking to solve difficult problems. Participants will apply new business skills to real work projects, become more inclusive and entrepreneurial leaders, and gain tools to drive organizational change.
Helping the Massachusetts State Lottery Earn Millions More CASE STUDY
“I wanted people to become more familiar with each other and what they do, and how they are all interconnected.”
— Michael Sweeney Executive Director for the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission
Michael Sweeney, executive director for the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission, chose roughly 25 colleagues to participate in this six-week program. The goal was to fix a problem where the lottery’s retail outlets were selling instant tickets out of order. The comprehensive plan of action they came up with, involving education, technology, and distribution, will be implemented this year. Once tickets are activated more correctly, the lottery expects to earn $2 million to $10 million in additional gross sales.
Programs for Individuals
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. jobs currently sit in occupations that are likely to shrink by 2030.*
Now more than ever, workers need to be prepared for the future of work, and with it, all of its uncertainty. This “creates an essential and growing need for learning across a lifetime,” says Babson College President Stephen Spinelli Jr. MBA’92, PhD. Babson offers innovative lifelong learning programs for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and aspiring leaders at all stages of development. Learn how to turn challenges into opportunities while navigating an uncertain landscape.
Professional Badges for Every Course
On successful completion of each online course, you’ll earn a digital badge to add to your online profile and CV of accomplishments. You can stack them into certificates for more comprehensive skills and qualifications.
“I’m trying to put into practice everything I’ve learned and see how that works. The program helped me embrace myself fully in a way I wasn’t used to. I accepted that it was OK to be me rather than finding a way to fit in.”
— Igeme Ezenwata, LPWA participant
Babson On DemandTM
Babson On-Demand digital learning offers the flexibility to upskill your team on their own schedule, providing access to cutting-edge insights, world-class faculty, leadership strategies, and industry innovations. You can also level up courses to earn a digital badge.
Executive Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificates
Complete three to four courses in a series and earn specialized professional leadership certificates that sharpen your expertise and propel your career forward.
Concept to Customer: Prototyping and Market Evaluation
Financing and Pitching Your Venture
Innovation and Growth Leadership
Startup Finance and Strategy
Thinking and Acting Like an Entrepreneur
Earn digital badges and certificates.
Graduate Degree Programs
Babson MBA (full time, part time)
MSM in Entrepreneurial Leadership
MS in Finance
Blended-Learning MBA in Miami
MS in Business Analytics
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Babson alumni may qualify to apply previous earned credits toward their graduate studies, as well as receive a 20% grant on graduate program tuition.
Certificate in Advanced Management
Choose from Six Specialties or Build Your Own
Business Administration
Entrepreneurship
Business and Social Impact
Business Analytics
Marketing
Finance
Can be applied to a future graduate degree
“I needed personal growth. I wanted to learn new things. I needed to learn something that will make impactful things happen.”
— Nathalya Mamane Certificate in Advanced Management, MBA’21
Babson Experts
Babson gives you access to preeminent thought leaders across a diverse range of fields; here are just a few examples:
Andrew Corbett Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Wendy Murphy Professor of Management
Scott Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior
Phil Kim Professor Entrepreneurship
Wiljeana Glover
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management
Gina O’Connor Professor of Innovation Management
Kristen Getchell Professor of Marketing
Angela Randolph
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Yasuhiro Yamakawa
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Stay Nimble
Professional and Executive Education and Corporate Engagement help you address the ever-increasingly rapid changes within industry at every level through executive education, employee training programs, and consulting services based on both research and practical experience.
Get corporate training programs for employees to develop inclusive, entrepreneurial leaders across your organization. On completion, your teams can address challenges with a flexible, entrepreneurial mindset that drives economic growth and social value.
Advance your skills and credentials—and be rewarded for a commitment to lifelong learning. Babson alumni who completed an undergraduate or graduate degree qualify for a 20% grant on future graduate programs and the executive education certificate or courses.