Finance
In today’s complex, competitive global market, the need for confident financial leaders has never been greater. As market trends evolve and new standards are put into place, our faculty of internationally recognized scholars and researchers bring extensive practical experience as former CEOs, CFOs and investment professionals straight to the classroom. With state-of-the-art technology across campus and our Hughey Center for Financial Services’ real-time Trading Room, you are able to apply the theories learned in the classrooms to complex examples of financial analysis, asset valuation and risk management. The financial landscape is ever-changing. Graduates from Bentley’s finance programs are equipped with the skillsets needed to remain adaptive and ahead of the curve.
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Student Success Story: Finance major Jazyln Barnaby ’24
Recent graduate Jazlyn Barnaby ’24, a first-generation student from Vermont, majored in Finance with a concentration in Capital Markets and minored in Computer Information Systems. During her senior year, Barnaby was selected from a competitive pool of candidates for Loomis Sayles’ Undergraduate Women’s Investment Network (UWIN) Mentorship Program. Her partnership with her mentor enhanced her business and technical expertise, and ultimately led to an excellent opportunity to join the Associate Development Program at Loomis, Sayles & Company post-graduation.
“I want to express my gratitude to my mentors for their support, encouragement and guidance,” Barnaby says, noting that she’s “eager to apply my skills, embrace new challenges and contribute to impactful projects” in her new position.
Falcons awarded scholarships from FEI’s Boston chapter
The Boston chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI), an organization of senior financial managers that provides professional development, technical research and public policy input to support finance leaders across multiple industries, awarded scholarships to two Bentley students.
Finance and Technology major Ledion Hoti ’25 (above, left), recipient of the Junior Scholarship Award, and Economics-Finance major Tyler Smith ’24 (above, right), recipient of the Outstanding Graduating Senior Scholarship Award (pictured above with Bentley Lecturer in Finance Brian Koeller) were recognized for their extracurricular and leadership activities and outstanding academic achievements.
Wang’s research shows firms benefit from networking
In new research published in the top business journal Management Science, Assistant Professor Hui (Grace) Wang demonstrates that institutional investors increasingly hold stakes in both industrial and financial firms, creating a network between these sectors.
“This network connects firms to banks they haven’t borrowed from before, lowering their cost of borrowing,” Wang explains, noting that this beneficial effect of institutional holdings on corporate borrowing costs is stronger when investors are actively involved in the firms’ operations and have strong incentives to support them in the loan process. Additionally, once the two parties become linked, outside banks start lending more to the firm.
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Kartik Raman
Department Chair
Adamian Academic Center 227
781.891.2781
kraman@bentley.edu
Lisa Taddeo
Senior Academic Coordinator
Adamian Academic Center 209
781.891.2117
ltaddeo@bentley.edu
Florin Morosan
MSF Program Director, Lecturer
Adamian Academic Center 213
781.891.2296
fmorosan@bentley.edu