A couple of weeks back, JIBS had a visit from Shahid Ansari, Provost and Dean of Faculty at Babson College.
Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA, is recognized internationally for its entrepreneurial leadership in a changing global environment, and JIBS are proud to have started discussions on collaboration with them.
Here are some words from professor Ansari:
“Babson has changed its global strategy to move away from specific and narrow relationships with a large number of universities to a few strategic partners that have the same world view and focus as Babson. I find JIBS to be attractive as a partner because they have a strong commitment to entrepreneurship and a similar world view about higher education.”
“Moving forward we see a number of complementary joint value creation opportunities within our schools. First, because JIBS has an emphasis on research we would like to rely on them for the education of doctoral students for the various global ventures that Babson has. For example, we might select promising graduate students in Asia or the Middle East and send them to JIBS to get a doctoral degree. Unlike JIBS, Babson’s primary focus is teaching and pedagogy, therefore JIBS could send prospective or current faculty members from various parts of the world to Babson for teacher training.”
“We also hope that jointly we will open several cohorts of our Fast Track MBA with JIBS as a partner.”
