Research

Research from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University offers a hopeful view of the prospects for new Alzheimer’s drugs.

Can economic principles encourage healthful eating so you choose an apple over, say, a doughnut? Two Bentley experts consider the issues. 

A new study reveals that the Great Recession has taught millennials some tough lessons about saving for retirement.

Internet and web-based technologies are changing the traditional marketplace — and human emotion is helping reinvent this consumer culture. 

Hosted by the Dean of Business, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for Arts and Sciences, the Bentley community recently came together to toast faculty members who have published a book in the past year (2014-2015).

In a way, getting fat makes sense.

Indeed, people are growing obese on a global scale. As nearly the whole world gets steadily fatter, economists are taking a closer look at why we make the unhealthy choices we do. Our fattening decisions make rational economic sense, they say, but only if we ignore the future.

The concept of Big Data is constantly changing depending on the state of the art in technology. 

How can big data be used to benefit us, and how may it threaten our privacy? Bentley researchers explored these questions at the annual Research Colloquium. 

In the United States, there's little you can do about what shows up when someone Googles you. But it doesn't have to be that way. 

Electronic medial records hold promise as a way to manage care for cancer survivors — but not without potential complications for privacy and security.