Babson College business students are spending Spring Break this week in the Arctic, Africa and Central America, teaching, researching, building and learning.
Kenya and Rwanda
Undergraduate School Dean Dennis Hanno and students are spending the week in Kenya and Rwanda. First, the team is visiting KCA University in Nairobi, Kenya to review a new degree program in entrepreneurship being established and to initiate relations with Babson. Second, they are talking with local entrepreneurs, government officials and others in Kigali, Rwanda to investigate the feasibility of opening a resource center for entrepreneurs. Third, they are working with a local entrepreneur to develop an alternative women's health institute in Kigali. The latter two are related to Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) projects -- thus the students are doing the data-gathering, interviewing, and other necessary research activities. Follow Dean Hanno’s coverage of the trip on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dhanno
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Finance Professor Michael Goldstein and students are at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada near the Arctic Circle to participate in the collection and analysis of research data. A particular area of interest is the ice roads that help supply mines and other areas north of Yellowknife. Some of these ice roads were featured on Season One of “Ice Road Truckers” on The History Channel.
This effort is supported by a National Science Foundation
(NSF) grant to conduct a research project entitled, “Collaborative
Research: Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the
Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration.” The research
focuses on how changes in seasonality affect economic activity in and near the
Arctic Circle through alterations in transportation. View the efforts at http://faculty.babson.edu/
El Salvador
