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Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967), remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas. He was born to Nathaniel Babson and his wife Ellen Stearns as part of the tenth generation of Babsons to live in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Roger attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding, in 1904, Babson's Statistical Organization, which analyzed stocks and business reports. It continues today as Babson-United, Inc..〔: A Short History of Roger L. Babson's firm〕 On March 29, 1900, Babson married his first wife, Grace Margaret Knight, who died in 1956. In 1957 he remarried to Nona M. Dougherty, who died in 1963. Babson died in 1967. ==Work on financial theory== Babson's success as an investor was based on unorthodox views of the operation of markets. According to biographer John Mulkern, Babson attributed the business cycle: ''to Sir Isaac Newton's law of action and reaction.... His pseudoscientific notion, that the gravity can be used to explain movement in the stock markets. His market forecasting techniques are in articles in Traders World Magazine and the Gravity Research Foundation he founded. http://gravityresearchfoundation.org/pdf/awarded/2005/Jaenisch_Jaenisch_2005.pdf While attending MIT he received a degree in Engineering. He lobbied the dean to include a business course, which resulted in a course known as "Business Engineering". This was the start of Business being taught at an American University. Eventually the Business Engineering program was expanded and it is now seen as the fore runner of the MBA degree. Babson authored more than forty books on economic and social problems, the most widely read being ''Business Barometers'' (eight editions) and ''Business Barometers for Profits, Security, Income'' (ten editions). Babson also wrote hundreds of magazine articles and newspaper columns. He was a popular lecturer on business and financial trends. Babson was an investor and sometimes director of many corporations, including some traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He established an investment advisory company ''Babson's Reports'' which published one of the oldest investment newsletters in America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Babson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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