Unlock a clear, practical path to buying and operating a small business. In this two-day, in-person intensive at the Babson Miami campus, Babson College faculty member John Hallal, a proven deal professional and an experienced investor, will guide you through an end-to-end Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) framework including sourcing, screening, valuation, offer terms, and early post-close priorities. You will work on cases interact with ETA professionals, and leave with ready-to-use tools and frameworks to drive your search.

Unlock your leadership style to lead with purpose and transform your organization. The most successful leaders build trust, inspire collaboration, and drive performance. This bootcamp will equip you with the practical tools and strategies to lead with confidence, sharpen your self-awareness, and apply new techniques in real-world scenarios. By the end, you will have a clear actionable plan to lead with intention, inspire lasting change, and accelerate your impact across your organization.

Learn to secure the right funding and pitch your business with confidence. This certificate covers capital options, business valuation, and crafting compelling pitches—equipping you with the tools to evaluate funding opportunities, create data-driven strategies, and effectively communicate your venture’s potential to investors and stakeholders.

Without customers, you cannot transform your entrepreneurial venture into a long-lasting and sustainable enterprise. Hear from Babson’s leading entrepreneurial educators throughout this self-directed course as you gain the skills you need to develop a loyal customer base for your business. Learn how to segment a market, estimate the size of a segment, target the most promising customers, and convince them to become reliable users or clients.

Amplify your impact as an innovator and changemaker and hone your skills as an entrepreneurial leader as you explore all stages of innovation, from initial ideation to long-term scaling. Discover how you can create and foster a human-centric approach to problem solving and create lasting impact.

Some of the most successful and well-known innovations got their start as spin-offs from existing products or practices. In this course, you’ll explore the different pathways you can take as an entrepreneurial leader to observe bright spots, experiment with new alternatives, and scale your findings to create successful outcomes.

Explore the various types of capital, the ways they differ from one another, and how they each affect your balance sheet. Learn how to determine which types of capital to raise based on your goals, values, and opportunities, all while building the entrepreneurial mindset you need to navigate uncertainty and grow your business.

Accelerate your leadership impact with a transformative executive education experience designed to elevate your influence, confidence, and career trajectory. During this leadership program for women, designed by and for women and their allies, you will activate a personalized leadership action plan, identify your strengths to drive change within your organization, refine your leadership presence, expand your network, and more. Whether you join us for the five-week, live online experience or the five-day, in-person program, you will receive targeted leadership feedback from executive coaches and your peers and leave ready to amplify your impact and extend that impact to your entire team.

Get ready to demystify and learn how to use AI so you’re not left behind by the technology gap that’s getting wider by the day. Through this Generative AI program and artificial intelligence business course, you will gain a deep understanding of artificial intelligence, its role in business, and how you can adopt AI for business practices, efficiencies, and ideas. Position yourself as the person who not only uses AI but thrives professionally from the skills and tools learning AI provides.

This course teaches you how to evaluate entrepreneurial ideas by assessing market demand, competition, and product feasibility. Learn to identify risks, refine your business opportunity, and make informed decisions to maximize your chances of success. Develop the skills to strategically grow and position your venture for long-term impact.

Find your voice and learn how to tell your story in a clear and compelling way. This self-paced course will give you the framework you need to deliver your ideas in a clear and engaging way, whether you’re interviewing for a job, pitching your venture to investors, or presenting strategic initiatives within an existing business.

In this self-directed course, you will learn how to turn your big idea into a tangible solution with the power of rapid, effective prototyping. Gain the skills you need to test simple versions of ideas and solutions, reduce risk, use resources wisely, and increase your chances of success. Throughout, you will implement Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® (ET&A™), Babson’s proven methodology for developing the skills and mindset needed to not just launch a new business, but also make change in an established company, lead a team, and create real impact.