Annual Awards

The deadline for 2023 award nominations has passed. Winners will be announced at the global summit in March 2023

Annual Award Descriptions & Details

ABOUT

About Annual Awards

Annual awards recognize achievements and excellence in entrepreneurship education as well as the dedication and contributions of our members in supporting the mission of the Babson Collaborative. 

​Submissions are reviewed and winners are determined by the Babson Collaborative leadership team including the Collaborative directors and Advisory Board members.  Winners are announced and awards presented at the Babson Collaborative Global Summit. All recipients will be featured on one or more of Babson College's media channels which reach a wide global audience.
SPOTLIGHT AWARD

Spotlight Award

The Babson Collaborative Spotlight Award is an annual award given to a member institution that demonstrates excellence and innovation in entrepreneurship education.  The award highlights a member institution’s commitment to enhancing entrepreneurship education and a willingness to share and promulgate best practice and new possibilities.

The award is not for an entire program related to entrepreneurship, but rather for a particular innovation in entrepreneurship education that is making a significant impact.  Examples may include an innovative course, co-curricular program, or a particular event. ​Submissions are judged on innovation; impact; and quality and comprehensiveness of the submission.

We define innovative as something new to a given context (in this case, the institutional, regional and cultural context of the school) that is advancing the entrepreneurship education ecosystem and generating value. The submitted innovation does not need to be new to the field of entrepreneurship education as a whole.

​In the form below, you will be expected to: describe how your submission is innovative within your institutional, regional and cultural context; identify the challenge being solved or the need being met; and describe its impact. 

​​​By submitting, you grant the Babson Collaborative permission to share your submission,  if awarded, with other Collaborative members.
MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Member of the Year Award

The Babson Collaborative Member of the Year Award is given to an individual in recognition of entrepreneurial leadership in the Collaborative and for encouraging engagement at all levels. Aligned with the Collaborative's core belief that members working together will accomplish the greatest good, this award seeks to highlight members who are exemplars in leveraging the Collaborative network and making a positive impact within our organization.

We seek to recognize members for making significant efforts to implement cross-institution initiatives and making significant contributions to the Collaborative through a combination of actions such as: leading a Collaborative sub-group or project, hosting a webinar, and adding to the Academic Content Library on the member portal.

Members may nominate a colleague from their own institution or another Collaborative member institution. Self-nominations are welcome.

2022 Award Recipients

SPOTLIGHT AWARD: ​
WINTERIM, Lewis & Clark College (USA)

WINTERIM is a program of the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship & Leadership at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, USA)
Learn more about Winterim>>

Special recognition to:
  • Brian Detweiler-Bedell – Director and Professor of Psychology
  • Catarina Hunter – Associate Director of Operations
  • Chrys Hutchings –  Associate Director and Adjunct Professor
​The team is pictured here with President Robin Holmes-Sullivan.
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MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD:
Eddie Valdiviezo, Universidad de Piura (Peru)

Eddie Valdiviezo Céspedes is the director of Hub Udep,  the business incubator of Universidad de Piura (Piura, Peru)

With this award, we recognize Eddie's entrepreneurial leadership in the Collaborative and for encouraging engagement at all levels.  Eddie is an exemplar in leveraging the Collaborative network to implement cross-institution initiatives. Some of his contributions to our organization include hosting webinars,  presenting at global summits and co-authoring a chapter in the Collaborative book launched in 2021.

BABSON COLLABORATIVE STUDENT NETWORK (BCSN) CHANGEMAKER AWARD ​
BCSN Ambassadors of Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile)

Award recipients: 
  • Nicolás Castellón
  • Joaquín González
  • Magdalena Irribarren
  • Felipe Sanzana (not pictured)

These four students from Universidad del Desarrollo (Concepcion and Santiago, Chile) received the inaugural BCSN Changemaker Award for entrepreneurial leadership in the service of others. They utilized their network and resources to successfully evacuate and resettle a peer from American University in Afghanistan safely in Santiago, Chile where she starting anew with their continued friendship and support. 
BSCN is global student club for select student leaders universities around the world that are members of the Babson Collaborative. ​

Previous Award Recipients

2021
Spotlight Award:  Centro Universitário Facens (Facens) (Sorocaba, Brazil) 
​Member of the Year Award:  Christina Theodoraki, TBS Business School (Toulouse, France)

2020
Spotlight Award:  TBS Business School (Toulouse, France)
​Member of the Year Award: Universidad de Piura (Piura, Peru)
Champion of the Year Award: Marcelo Leporati, EAE Business School (Madrid, Spain)

2019
Spotlight Award: Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada)
Member of the Year:  FLAME University (Pune, India)

2018
Spotlight Award: Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) (Santiago, Chile)
Member of the Year: Centro Universitário Facens (Facens) (Sorocaba, Brazil)
​Champion of the Year Award: Lucía Egea Ronda, EDEM Business School (Valencia, Spain)