I am honored to step into the role of Faculty Director of the Diana International Research Institute (DIRI) at Babson College. DIRI has been a trailblazing force in advancing global research on women’s entrepreneurship, and I am deeply grateful to follow in the footsteps of Dr.

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"the only real valuable thing is intuition". - Einstein

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new paper finds rising housing costs to be a major causal driver of declining fertility. Benjamin Couillard finds higher rents lead to 11 percent fewer US births (~13 million kids) since 1990. That's just over half of the decline in total fertility rate in that time period

Knowing things are going to work out is a form of divine protection

Stop stepping out of alignment with yourself to be in alignment with people that aren’t aligned with you

It is going to be a good day

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Let time show you truth. What is meant to grow will do so through steady, visible care.

💡 “Unveiling Belonging: Women Entrepreneurs’ Belonging Strategies to Navigate the Embedding Process” By Saskia Stoker, Ana Cruz-Garcia & Ingrid Wakkee This open-access article explores how women founders perform belonging within gendered entrepreneurial ecosystems—revealing

Pressure to publish jumps. And researchers have no time to do science. (New survey from Elsevier) Survey of 3200 researchers: 1. Only 45% of scientists have sufficient time for actual research. 2. For 68%, the pressure to publish today is greater than 2-3 years ago. 3. 29% of

Grateful to my friends sending beautiful flowers to brighten my day.

Rest of conference when you’re presenting early

Did you say “negative binomial regression”?

When you quiet your mind, you truly hear.

“Too much talking drains your qi… Talking too much is like draining yourself.” → What if more silence meant more power, more presence, and more clarity in your work and life frame? 🔹 Read the full article: The Best Way to Protect Your Energy: Talk Less by @sevenqian on

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has gifted another $38 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, bringing her total donations to 8 HBCUs to $387 million in the past 30 days. She has been donating billions of her wealth every year since her divorce from ex-husband Jeff Bezos in 2019.

Boredom is the restless ache of a soul chasing diversions instead of devotion.

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Microsoft just released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk from AI, and 40 that are still safe.