Before you read on

Looking further ahead: the HarbourVest Economic Forum is Tuesday, October 13, and the Graduate Fall Career Fair is Thursday, October 15, with pre-registration required.

Full details on all three are just below, followed by the day-by-day calendar with 19 more events and deadlines this week.

Please RSVP on Engage. We depend on accurate counts to plan events well.

If a link will not open or a registration will not go through, reply to this email or write to gradstudentcouncil@babson.edu.

Fall Elections 2026 · Results

Meet your 2026–27 Graduate Student Council

Twelve seats filled · Terms begin Wednesday, October 7 · Run-off for VP of MSEL Students

Please join us in congratulating the newest members of the GSC, elected by graduate students across every program in this fall's election:

Your program VP represents your cohort on the council, so if something in your program could work better, they are a good person to tell, and so is the Student Voice Dashboard further down this email.

Tonight · Tuesday, October 6 · A GSC and SGA event

Founder & Speaker Series | Installment One: Tobias Donath '04

7:00 to 8:30 PM · Winn Auditorium · Free and open to the Babson community · Light refreshments

In 2004, Tobias Donath won Babson's Muller Competition with The Artisan Bread Company. Two decades later, he leads go-to-market and strategy for Fidelity Investments' Institutional Wealth Management Services, the business that equips wealth management firms with the investment, technology, and platform solutions they use to serve clients and grow. Along the way he started his career in his own family's business, earned his MBA at IMD in Switzerland, and built Fidelity's family engagement practice before moving into strategy.

On the agenda: carrying an entrepreneurial mindset from founder into a large enterprise, what family business teaches about leadership, money, and hard conversations, how AI and time allocation are reshaping wealth management, and the career paths he would take today, including what he looks for when hiring.

It is especially useful if you are weighing whether to build your own thing, join a large company, or find a way to do both. Space is limited, so please RSVP.

Thursday, October 8 · Presented by Babson Sales Initiatives

2026 Sales Leadership Summit: Sales in the Era of AI-Driven Revenue Execution

5:00 to 10:00 PM · Knight Auditorium · Keynote from Katerina Mallios '13 of Salesforce

AI is actively reshaping how companies build pipeline, close deals, and scale revenue, and Babson's third annual Sales Leadership Summit brings together operators, investors, consultants, and founders to break down what is actually working across modern revenue organizations, from early-stage growth to IPO.

The keynote is Katerina Mallios '13, Chief Revenue Officer, Americas, Agentforce Revenue Management at Salesforce, and the panelists and roundtable speakers include leaders from Accenture, Bullhorn, Dell Technologies, Getty Images, Kindbody, Mimecast, ShipBob, ZoomInfo, and more, many of them Babson alumni and parents.

For our Babson Miami community

Four events this week are just for you, starting with Meet Your Mentors & Pizza Social Night on Thursday, October 8, 6:00 to 8:00 PM, the first time both the M'27 and M'28 cohorts will be in the same room. On Friday the Women's MBA Luncheon welcomes Prof. Tina Opie, Carla Curiel, and special speaker Angelica Fuentes; on Saturday Dr. Rainford Knight leads a Lunch & Learn on finance and AI for Blended Learning MBA students; and on Sunday Mitch Modell, former CEO of Modell's Sporting Goods, shares lessons on resilience, reinvention, and the power of networking. And congratulations to Alejandro Mejia Nauffal, your newly elected VP of Blended Miami MBA Students.

From the Cutler Center · Tuesday, October 20

RealTalk 2026 workshop registration is now open, and seats are limited. FintechWomen USA is running two rounds of interactive workshops that take on very different questions across money, technology, AI, voice, and leadership, so you choose the conversations you want to be in and where you want to go deeper.

2:00 to 5:00 PM · Suffolk University, Boston. Registration is required, so choose your sessions early.

Choose your sessions →

06 · Build Babson Better

Tell your new council what to work on

With twelve new members joining us this week, our GSC Student Voice Dashboard is where you can tell the council what you want changed: post an idea anonymously, upvote what other students have already raised, and follow how we resolve it. It is a good moment to make sure your priorities are on the list as the new council gets to work.

Share your idea →

If you are stuck on something, or you would simply like to talk it through with someone, reply to this email or write to gradstudentcouncil@babson.edu.

08 · One more thing

A little Babson history. With the HarbourVest Economic Forum coming up next week and its look at where the economy is heading, here is a forecast with our founder's name on it. On September 5, 1929, Roger Babson warned a business audience that a crash was coming. What did Wall Street call the sharp drop that followed that afternoon?

The Babson Break. Roger Babson, who founded Babson College in 1919, told the audience that “sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific.” Stocks fell sharply that afternoon, and the drop took his name. Less than two months later, the Great Crash of late October 1929 arrived.