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Harry C. Bentley Alumni Achievement Award  Honors recipients as creative, ethical and socially responsible leaders of organizations   Colleagues at accounting firm LGA LLP know Janine Danielson ’84 as a trusted adviser and committed mentor to…

Bentley was 2-0 at the Haymakers for Hope charity fight night in May. James Arredondo ’04, MBA ’10 and Vanessa (Razney) Baca ’10 pummeled through months of training to reach the ring at the House of Blues Boston — amazing family and friends and raising…

Ashish Fernando can thank a collapsing job market for his path to entrepreneurship. In 2008, he put aside dreams of becoming a microbiologist in his home country of India to pursue an MBA in the United States, where, he says, “a lot of innovation in…

Going to the playground. Splashing around in the ocean. Walking down Main Street with an ice cream cone. For alumna Susan Brown (above right), the moments she calls “small miracles” became scarce when her daughter began having seizures at age 3. …

If there’s a Bruins game on, the Giannettos are likely gathered in their living room, glued to the television screen. Three of the five family members now have something else in common. Michael ’85 studied accounting and, at graduation, took a corporate…

Projects by Faculty and Students have Real-World Impact How do you strengthen the economy in parts of the world where most people have little access to banks? In sub-Saharan Africa, a developing region of…

“Congratulations on your recent failure” may never be a Hallmark-worthy sentiment. But there are reasons to value — even welcome — the experience. Here, Peter Forkner of Bentley’s Counseling…

Art and activism blend perfectly for Maria Rivero ’09. The Venezuela-born alumna couples her expertise in marketing with a keen social conscience. The work is twofold: managing a private collection dedicated to contemporary art and helping emerging artists…

Bentley’s first Commencement, for 18 graduates, took place on June 29, 1920. The site was Whitney Hall, in the famous Pierce Building at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner. As class sizes grew, ceremonies moved to the Boston Opera House on Huntington Ave. (pictured…

Donna Maria Blancero is on a mission to show that successful people represent all types of identities, including race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity.  Your commitment to inclusion has very personal roots. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a…