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July 2008

Listen as Cynthia Robinson, Associate Director, Knowledge and Content Management and Patti Greene, Provost, discuss Bloomberg Technology at Babson.

June 2008

Babson College’s Library Receives “Excellence Award”
 For Its Cutler Investment And Finance Center

Babson College’s Library has received the 2008 Center of Excellence Award for its commitment to service excellence demonstrated through the quality of information programs, resources, and services developed for The Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance over the past five years.  The award is sponsored by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Business & Finance Division.

 The judges highlighted the Horn Library and Cutler Center’s ability to:

  • Engage key stakeholders and build strategic partnerships;
  • Showcase and support the use of highly specialized information resources;
  • Develop cutting edge instructional programs; and
  • Integrate and align the Center with the main library strategic goals and objectives.

Stephen D. Cutler -- president and principal of Essex Investment Management Company and Babson MBA graduate -- generously funded the College’s investment center in 2000 to help Babson students recognize the importance of the financial markets in creating capital for the growth of the global economy.     

“This is a great honor for Babson,” said Cutler. “Babson’s Cutler Center helps students recognize the importance of the financial markets in creating capital to grow businesses and create more jobs throughout the world. Learning how to maneuver through the financial markets -- using the Center’s sophisticated technological tools and information resources -- is critical to increased prosperity for everyone.”

“This award is directly related to the strength of the partnership forged between Babson’s Horn Library and the Finance Division,” said Library Director Hope Tillman.  “Special appreciation goes to Mary Rose, Vice President of Administration and CIO; Steven Feinstein, Associate Professor, Finance; Michael Goldstein, Professor, Finance; Richard Bliss, Division Chair, Finance; Jennifer Bethel, Associate Professor, Finance; Diana Harrington, Professor, Finance; Mark Potter, Associate Professor, Finance; Laurie Krigman, Associate Professor, Finance; Patti Greene, Provost, and Sol Kamerman, Senior Systems Administrator, Information Technology,” said Cynthia Robinson, Associate Director, Knowledge and Content Management and Liaison to the Finance Division.

About the Center
The Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments & Finance in the Horn Library provides Babson students, faculty, and alumni a state-of-the-art research environment which mirrors that found at top institutions in the financial marketplace. The Library showcases financial information resources and technology and provides real-world learning opportunities in the Center.  It is the hub for finance related curricular and co-curricular activities such as the student-run Babson College Fund (BCF), the Finance Immersion Program (FIP), Babson Investment Management Association (BIMA), Babson Investment Banking Association (BIBA), Babson Real Estate Association (BREA) and iTower. In addition, the Center supports applied research and serves as a forum for thought leadership in finance where industry practitioners, faculty and students collaborate, exchange ideas & learn for one another.
For more information on Babson’s Stephen D. Cutler Investment Management Center visit: http://cutler.babson.edu.

About the Award
According to the SLA Business & Finance Division, “The goal of the Centers of Excellence Awards is to recognize this excellence but to also bring it out into the public eye so that others may learn from it and to benchmark themselves against these truly excellent organizations.”   The criteria used by SLA is based upon the criteria used by the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and for the business information management community, particularly in relation to performance standards published in “Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century”. 
Previous winners of the Center of Excellence Award include:

  • The Science, Industry & Business Library of the New York Public Library
  • The J. Hugh Jackson Library, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
  • National Geographic Society's Libraries and Information Services
  • The Verizon Information Research Network
  • Kresge Business Administration Library, University of Michigan
  • Nike Design Library
  • Knowledge Network Group, Microsoft
  • Lippincott Library, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Business Research Group, Center for Business Knowledge, Ernst & Young LLP, North America

May 2008

The Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance is pleased to announce the addition of three new advisory board members.

Catherine Friend White is the founder and President of FinArc, LLC, an investment management firm and registered investment adviser.  She is also director of the Babson Graduate School of Business Advisory Board, the Dickinson College Regional Cabinet, and the Dover Open Space Committee. Ms White has served on the board of directors of BostonFed Bancorp and its subsidiary bank, Boston Federal Savings Bank.  She served on the investment, nominating, and compensation committees.  Ms. White holds an MBA in Finance from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College

Dave Duval is a General Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Castile Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that a provides financial backing and strategic guidance to assist entrepreneurs build successful technology businesses.  Prior to Castile Ventures, he co-founded and managed Volpe Brown Whelan Asset Management, LLC and its venture affiliate, Bedrock Capital Partners.  Dave is also a former CFO/Partner of Highland Capital Partners.  He holds an MBA from Babson College.

Jurrien Timmer is the director of market research for Fidelity Investments and the portfolio manager of the Fidelity Dynamic Strategies fund.  He is a 12-year veteran at Fidelity and plays a key role in Fidelity’s Global Asset Allocation group. As an investment strategist, Mr. Timmer's work, includes fundamental, technical, and quantitative disciplines, directly influences the portfolio strategy of Fidelity's asset allocation funds and is widely used by Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts. In addition to his international role, Mr. Timmer is also a spokesman on investment matters to Fidelity's clients and associates.  He received a BS in Finance from Babson.
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