Bentley University News

For a long time, Ashley Yantz MSA ’13 always had dreams of becoming a neuroscientist. But at 22, in the midst of a neuroscience doctorate program, she took a bold move to change career paths.

A question and answer session with President-Elect Davis-Blake about joining Bentley, her initial impressions of the university, and her background as the leader of large public business schools.

President-Elect Davis-Blake talks about growing up in an academic family and her belief in the power of education to change lives.

By Naomi Vakharia ’20   “No way! You’re from Cali?” is something I hear almost every time I introduce myself and my home state at Bentley. Moving from sunny Los Angeles to (sometimes) cold New England is the biggest decision I’ve ever made, but one that I absolutely do not regret. I’ve spent one year […]

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Alison Davis-Blake, Ph.D., the former dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, has been appointed the eighth president of Bentley University, one of the top U.S. business schools in the country.

When Gloria Jiang MSA ’14 was an undergraduate, she says she purposely tried to stay away from her parents’ career paths in finance and accounting when she was deciding the major in college. But once she entered the workforce, she quickly realized that accounting was “the business language spoken everywhere in the world.” And she wanted to learn it.

David Missirian, assistant professor of law, taxation and financial planning at Bentley University, sees a growing legal and financial risk to colleges, universities, and high schools connected to student athlete concussions. He published on this topic most recently with the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law, and thinks now is a critical time for schools to get well positioned on what he calls “an overlooked legal and ethical minefield.”

A recent published study from Bentley's Center for Integration of Science and Industry shows that the thirty year path from the initiation of research on oligonucleotides as therapeutics to the emergence of effective products followed predictable patterns of innovation, in which novel products are successfully developed only after the underlying basic research reaches a requisite level of maturity.

The Princeton Review has named Bentley #4 in the U.S. for connecting students with internships as part of its 2018 edition of “Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give you the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck.” 

Dan Everett has spent a lot of time looking into the past. Now, with his latest book acting as a kind of closing argument for his side of anthropology’s “language wars,” he’s looking toward the future, shifting his inquiries from the ancient origins of language to the philosophical implications of culture and cognition.