Esteemed Alumni - Sohpie Bacq

The 2010 BCERC in Lausanne was my first “Babson Conference” ever, which is also the year I attended the Doctoral Consortium. I remember being filled with joy and fulfillment as I interacted with peers and accomplished entrepreneurship scholars I had been reading for a few years upon starting my dissertation work in 2006. Since then, I have attended Babson every single year—except for the two summers my kids were born. What I remember from the DC was an assignment to interview a few senior researchers in our field. The takeaway was evident: our field is one that values and celebrates human connections, and I flew home that day with a strong and ever-lasting sentiment: “I have found my people.”

Carlos A. Albornoz, Will I. April, Norin Arshed, Heidi M. J. Bertels, Tandy M. Dilworth, Casey J. Frid, Hao Jiao, Rangapriya Kannan-Narasimhan, Moriah Meyskens, Todd W. Moss, Indrajit Mukherjee, Thomas E. Nelson, Saurav Pathak, Marcel Perez-Carron, Julienne Senyard, Sharon A. Simmons, Ronda M. Smith, Abraham Stefanidis, Artur A. Steinerowski, Roland Z. Szabo, Hak Tam, Jana Thiel, Tang Wang, David W. Williams, Karen L. Williams-Middleton 2 0 0 9

Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA

Lakshmi Balachandra, Anthony Briggs, Michael P. Ciuchta, Sofie H. De Prijcker, Chuck E. Eesley, Markus A. Fitza, William R. Forster, Andreea N. Kiss, Jukka Kontula, Oksana Koryak, Tanvi H. Kothari, Jade (Yu-Chieh) Lo, Justin I. Miller, Cheryl Mitteness, Isobel O'Neil, H. Dennis Park, Jeffrey M. Pollack, Anthony Robinson, Mariarosa Scarlata, Ana Siqueira, Caren H. Weinberg, Robert J. Wuebker, Jeffrey G. York, Lee J. Zane, Jing Zhou 2 0 0 8

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

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Antonio Miguel Amaral, Asad Aziz, Saulo Barbosa, Cyrine Ben Hafaiedh, Ekaterina Bjørnåli, Veroniek Collewaert, Euler De Souza, Liliana Doganova, Hakan Ener, Joris Heuven, Victor Huang, Tobias Johann, Maribel Justo, Jane Khayesi, Edward Lee, David Lingelbach, Janice Molloy, Stuart Napshin, Pankaj Patel, Anna Söderblom, Marilyn Uy, Jaume Villanueva, William Wales, Yasuhiro Yamakawa

IE Business School, Madrid, Spain

Sergey Anokhin, Steven Bradley, Maris Bruce, Michael Clouser, Riccardo De Vita, Christof Engelskirchen, Benjamin Gansel, Robert Garrett, Jr., Bradley George, Yan Gong, James Green, Kimberly Green, Jason Harkins, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Daniel Holland, Einer Lier Madsen, Dell McStay, Hana Milanov, Javier Monllor, Carla Pavone, Marie Renault, Gary Schirr, Anette Soderqvist, Suna Sørensen, Wouter Stam, Jagannadha Tamvada, Jintong Tang, David Townsend, Jennifer Walske, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf 2 0 0 6

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Alexandra Dawson, Djordje Djokovic, Stephanie Fernhaber, Ahmet Murat Fis, Rachida Justo (Hamza), Phillip H Kim, Paul Kirwan, Maik Kleinschmidt, Reddi Kotha, Tadej Kroslin, Barbara Larrañeta, Aegean Leung, Dominic Lim, Marsha McArthur, Lucia Naldi, Erik Noyes, Anastasia O'Rourke, Carolyn Peterken, Ming Piao, Christopher I. Rider, Manjula S. Salimath, Weilei (Stone) Shi, Tali Sivan, Karin Sjöberg, Brett Smith, Stephen Spring, Christopher E. Stevens, Vareska van de Vrande, Karl J. Wennberg, Jennifer L. Woolley, Yanfeng Zheng 2 0 0 5

Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA

Doug Bosse, John Cavill, Garimalia Chandrashekhar, Harveen Chugh, Margaret Fletcher, Eli Gimmon, David Hansen, Susan Harmeling, Troy Harting, Susan Hill, Tatiana Iakovleva, Satirenjit Johl, Virpi Kaikkonen, Teemu Kautonen, Sonia Ketkar, Santeri Korri, Andreas Kuckertz, Joseph LiPuma, Terri Lonier, Matthew Marvel, J. Robert Mitchell, Joseph Ngijol, Suncica Oberman, Larry Plummer, Mukesh Sud, Jeffrey Sugheir, Tarja Teppo, Christian Vintergaard, Sivapalan Vivekarajah, Concong Zheng 2 0 0 4

University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Jun-Woo Bae, Katleen Baeyens, Jurgita Baltrusaityte, Niels Billou, Oana Branzei, Carter Crockett, Devkamal Dutta, Christian Eliasson, Rhonda Engleman, Lema Forje, Laura Gaillard Giordani, Silke Gese, Peter Gianiodis, Loris Gillin, Denis Gregoire, Sean Hackett, Keith Hmieleski, Martin Holi, Jan Ising, Bruce Johnstone, Karoline Jung-Senssfelder, Reiko Kishida, Chris Lang, Hon Ying Li, Markus Makela, Charles Massin, Erik Monsen, Sussie Celna Morrish, Sandralee Moynihan, Patrick Murphy, Ernesto Noboa, Kelley Porter, B. H. Shameen Prashantham, Julia Prats, Maija Renko, Folkert Schmidt, Chris Tuggle, Romeo Turcan, Els Van De Velde, Vicky Van Den Haute, Jerome Veil, Dirk Voelz, Lisa Voss, Glenis Wade, Laura Wilson, JiFeng Yu, Jing Zhang 2 0 0 3

Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA

Clive Allen, Gry Agnete Alsos, Esser Altinay, Jonathan Arthurs, Arild Aspelund, Henrik Berglund, Suresh Bhagavatula, Ashok Kumar Bhargava, Niels Billou, Marina Biniari, Volker Bruns, Gavin Cassar, Min-seok Cha, Justin Craig, Dimo Dimov, Maritza Espina, Dinghun Ge, Stephen Golla, Ans Heirman, Marc Junkunc, Rachida Justo Hamza, Anders Karlsson, Tomas Karlsson, Leah Kaye, Sonja Kind, Stephen Ko, Patrick Kreiser, Frank La Pira, Christian Lender, Grace Liu Hsi Yun, Marcello B Maestro, Alex McKelvie, Brian McKenzie, Jeffery McMullen, Claudia Morgan, Robyn J Morris, Scott Newbert, Miwako Nitani, Dirk Oberschchtsiek, Elizabeth G. Osipenko, Aviad Pe'er, Sinikka Peltomaki, Hector Rocha, Leon Schjoedt, Victor Seidel, Surendra Srivastava, Bruno Tindemans, Erno Tornikoski, Can Uslay, Kristina Vares, S. K. L. Welamedage, Robert Wiltbank, Ronit Yitshaki-Hagai 2 0 0 2

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

Neimat Abd Alla Ibrahim, Sharon Bamford, Christoph Bannerman, Imanol Belausteguigoitia, Leonard Bisk, Branko Bucar, Alistair J Campbell, Jane Chang, Boyd D.Cohen, Heather Deighan, Guldem Demirer, Hung-bin Ding, Ellen Farrell, Juan Florin, Paul Friga, Sigal Haber, L. Gregory Henley, David Hensley, Robert Kolodinsky, Stefanie Krauss, Myleen M. Leary, Rose Mary A. Lopez, Brett Matherne, Petra Maria Moog, Mikko Mustakallio, Ruth Nicol, Claus Otten, Hyeon Jeong Park, Joshua B. Powers, Mikael Samuelsson, Roger Sorheim, Terri Tandish-Kuon 2 0 0 0

Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA

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Madhushree N. Agarwal, Jussi Autere, Ajay Bhalla, G. S. Bhalla, Karen Bishop, Melissa S. Cardon, Robert B. Carton, Young-Rok Choi, John E. Clarkin, Liliane de Oliveira Guimaraes, Paula J. Ferri, Marybeth Gavin, Joachim Herting, Dominic G. Kamau, Thuy-Oanh Lam, Michael T. Manion, Tatiana S. Manolova, Michael D. Meeks, Yuri Mishina, Yuet-Ha Mo, Vivek Nagpaul, Heidi M. Neck, Rick Newby, Gary Packham, Vesa Puhakka, Alicia Robb, Jim Sanders, Isabel Servais, Erik Stam, Phil Stetz, Simon Stockley, Robert Sullivan, Mika Tuunanen, John X. Volker, Charlotte J. Winnen

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA